Buckingham Palace District Six Quotes

#1. I'm not exactly sure how old the girls are [in Bink & Gollie], but I can pretty much guarantee that their parents will never show up. That would mess up the fun. I do, however, very much like Kate's idea of having Tony [Fucile] draw their portraits.

Kate DiCamillo

#2. I remember, back in England, the man I had before Jeeves sneaked off to a meeting on his evening out and come back and denounced me in front of a crowd of chappies I was giving a bit of supper to as a useless blot on the fabric of Society.

P.G. Wodehouse

#3. Exile is terrible to those who have, as it were, a circumscribed habitation; but not to those who look upon the whole globe but as one city.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#4. Ideas come from everything

Alfred Hitchcock

#5. In every age someone, looking at Fedora as it was, imagined a way of making it the ideal city, but while he constructed his miniature model, Fedora was already no longer the same as before, and what had been until yesterday a possible future became only a toy in a glass globe.

Italo Calvino

#6. We need to develop a sense of sufficiency to be happy.

Satish Kumar

#7. There's a lot of pressure to look like the last company that was successful.

Ben Silbermann

#8. The mainstream media showed, for example, no blood and guts resulting from the 9/11 attacks.

Bruce Jackson

#9. What is left unsaid gets in the way of the relationship. What is left unasked-for is a missed opportunity.

Thomas Leonard

#10. A man trusts another man when he sees enough of himself in him.

Gregory David Roberts

#11. I feel like some sort of fiction-writing hobo, jumping trains and always hoping I'll find a good place to start a fire in the next town. And I keep having these panicky episodes where I corner my husband and rant at him: 'I don't have anywhere to write! I can't write! I don't have a place to write!'

Rainbow Rowell

#12. Good taste is not something you can be taught. It's not something you obtain in a store or go to college to learn.

Pat Conroy

#13. If you don't want to see me again, say so. But it's not right to say nothing. It's not right to go silent. You know what to do.

Emily Winslow

#14. I don't know about that. I'm not a very analytical person. I have various impulses. I've often quoted Walt Whitman's phrase "I contain multitudes." I understand that.

Patti Smith