Pentonville Quotes & Sayings

What the Londoner sees in his mind's eye is that cluster of towers and pinnacles seen from Pentonville Hill and outlined against a foggy sunset, and the great arc of Barlow's train shed gaping to devour incoming engines, and the sudden burst of exuberant Gothic of the hotel seen from gloomy Judd Street ... — John Betjeman

I read a lot of autobiographical stories, and I write plays and prose. And I play piano and cello. A lot of my downtime is devoted to that. — Alexis Dziena

When you use sleep mask, no one's gonna recognize you. You're gonna look like an idiot, but it's so worth it. — Nikki Glaser

Wait. This was the first lesson I had learned about love. The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways
and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives. But by then, you don't know what to say. The hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embarrassed about showing affection. — Paulo Coelho

I believe in tying the marriage knot, as long as it's around the woman's neck — W.C. Fields

When I was a kid, I read comics. But when I saw how funny it was, and how wonderfully absurd, I said, "You know, I gotta do this." — Adam West

My previous outlook could be summed up as follows: Life is shit. Math makes sense. Fictional characters are superior to real people because real people are equal parts pitiful and predictable. — Penny Reid

I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music. — Herbie Hancock

Lady Linette has been teaching us seduction techniques." She lowered her eyes and then looked off across the gray moor, presenting him with her profile, which was rather a nice one, or so Mademoiselle Geraldine told her.
That statement successfully shocked Felix. He swallowed a few times before saying, his voice almost as high as it had been a year ago, "Really? — Gail Carriger

People protect themselves with whatever means available, not always drawing on what's most beneficial or effective, or even sound in the eyes of others. — Rachel S. Neal

I had to Derrick Rose the knee up before I got the re-up — Drake

This was the stuff of novels with
yeah
men like him on the cover. — Erin Kellison

I grew up on movie sets and traveling the world with my pops. — Scott Eastwood

In excellent physical condition for a woman her age, she imagined running strong well into her sixties. — Lisa Genova

Cursed be he that scalps the reputation of the dead. — Chief Joseph

She was too well acquainted with the way things work in real life. Real life sucked. But it was real. It was unapologetic. It made no excuses. It just was. — Maya Banks

Up to this time, Mr Pancks had transacted little or no business at his quarters in Pentonville, except in the sleeping line; but now that he had become a fortune-teller, — Charles Dickens