Spitalfields City Quotes & Sayings

I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me. — Eddie Rickenbacker

The benefit of even limited monopolies is too doubtful, to be opposed to that of their general suppression. — Thomas Jefferson

By the time we had passed St Clement Dane's, the pavements had grown less crowded, and as we drew by the Temple, thick woolly clouds of vapour were curling up from the steep lanes leading down to the river on our right and were beginning to suffuse the light from the gas-lamps and to deepen the gloom of the quieter streets of that quarter. Past St Paul's, on through the sepulchral City and up beyond Bishopsgate, the breeze had dropped and the haze grew thicker and heavier. By the time we had arrived at our rendezvous with Lestrade in a warren of dismal backstreets in Spitalfields, we were mired in the drab wraiths of a summer fog. — Seamus Duffy

Lighten up. Brighten up - that's my mantra, and it gets me through the rest of the afternoon. — Zoe Thurner

The most attractive quality of all is dignity. — Sherry Argov

Reason may be the lever, but sentiment gives you the fulcrum and the place to stand on if you want to move the world. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

No fate holds more splendour for an artist, than the one which greets his effort with such enthousiasm! — Carl Maria Von Weber

Mac [Barnett]and I both had times when we moved, started new schools, and we know how hard that was, figuring out your identity and who you're going to be at the new school. — Jory John

All relationships are tough. Just like with music, sometimes you have harmony and other times you have cacophony. — Gayle Forman

'Pump Up the Volume' was a film and character that I really responded to. That was a movie about a guy trying to take down the establishment using a ham radio. I feel 'Mr. Robot' has a similar value. This show is about taking down a global empire. I was an anarchist then. I'm getting to be an anarchist again. — Christian Slater

Is it any wonder why Princes & Kings / Are clowns that caper in their sawdust rings / When ordinary people who are like you and me / Are the builders of their destiny. — Noel Gallagher

You've just got to take a good hard look at yourself, change what needs to be changed, and move on. — Lauren Myracle

People have the wrong idea about the hijab,: said Zuhra with a toss of her glossy hair. I wear it because I respect myself. And when the beauty is hidden the more important things rise to the surface. — Jennifer Steil

We sat down and I felt as if we were one of those rich married couples, more separated than united by their dinner table.
-pg 46 — Albert Sanchez Pinol

V. Gilbert Beers says, "A person of integrity is one who has established a system of values against which all of life is judged." Integrity is not what we do so much as who we are. And who we are, in turn, determines what we do. Our — John C. Maxwell