Cripplegate Quotes

#1. Shakespeare, it appears, was caught up in the affair because he had been a lodger in Mountjoy's house in Cripplegate in 1604 when the dispute arose.

Bill Bryson

#2. People think you can get out your canvas and paint any time you have a free moment. You can't. Commercial art and painting are entirely different. Painting takes a different mental approach. You have to get the right attitude, the right mood.

Pierre Alechinsky

#3. I guess I considered myself just sort of a sketch comedian, you know? Actual screenwriting hadn't really occurred to me as a viable job - I didn't really know anything about it.

Thomas Lennon

#4. As a writer, you have to realize that people want to like the characters, so you have to be careful to keep them involved.

Alexander McCall Smith

#5. The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.

Kenneth Tynan

#6. Sometimes I get so pumped up, I get a headache. I get woozy. I get dizzy. I like that feeling, I don't know why.

Torii Hunter

#7. So, if you can, give up the want of another and be who you are, and more often than not, love will come at the precise moment you are simply loving yourself.

Mark Nepo

#8. The relationship with my library on a Kindle feels more intimate, like a shelled animal carrying its home on its back.

Linda Grant

#9. I feel like, once you're doing a job, you shouldn't talk about it.

Paul Dano

#10. I watched the sky as it turned from silver to grey to the colour of rain. Even the clouds tried to look the other way.

Markus Zusak

#11. What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.

Nancy Carell

#12. Taxonomy is described sometimes as a science and sometimes as an art, but really it's a battleground.

Bill Bryson