Charing Quotes

#1. Couldn't one go right away, to the far ends of the earth, and be free from it all?
One could not. The far ends of the earth are not five minutes from Charing Cross. nowadays. While the wireless is active, there are no far ends of the earth.

D.H. Lawrence

#2. I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition.

Samuel Pepys

#3. I can't switch time zones any more. London is one of my favourite places, but I'm always so zonked that I can't appreciate it. It's like a six-inch sheet of glass between me and Charing Cross Road.

Douglas Coupland

#4. If you happen to pass by 84 Charing Cross Road, kiss it for me? I owe it so much.

Helene Hanff

#5. I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the situation.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#6. Honesty is nothing more than a party trick, and you know how much I love to dance.

Elizabeth Brooks

#7. Outsourcing was the bogeyman of the '90s. Protectionists portrayed it as an evil that would take American jobs away. Yes, some jobs did go offshore as people feared, but it made the global economic pie grow bigger.

Vivek Wadhwa

#8. rise of frustration.

Anonymous

#9. Nothing is ever as it seems but sometimes it leads to a better outcome than you could possibly have dreamed.

Truth Devour

#10. My mum was too busy raising four of us to encourage my hopes. But I'm glad I had the upbringing I did. It made me a worrier and a thoughtful, curious person.

Ellie Goulding

#11. It takes years and years, usually a decade, to create a great startup.

Sam Altman

#12. We looked into each other's eyes. I saw myself, she saw herself.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#13. The pediatric autodoc scanned him, considered for the longest five seconds of Naomi's life, and declared the baby safely within standard error.

James S.A. Corey