Essex's Quotes

#1. My friends adore 'TOWIE' - the TV documentary series, 'The Only Way is Essex.' They like it, I'm afraid, for the most unworthy of reasons: class mockery. They tune in to wonder in a 'can you believe those people?' way at the natives of Brentwood and Buckhurst Hill.

Peter York

#2. She was keen on the idea that a strong mind, enforced with a strong will, could overcome any difficulty.

Karen Essex

#3. I wasn't ever a massive David Essex fan, but I liked a few of his tracks, and Stardust was one of them.

Martin Gore

#4. The whole acting game can sometimes be a bit false, and you meet a lot of people in it for the fame - so there's nothing I love more than going back to Essex.

Michelle Dockery

#5. Like she knows what's inside of me, what makes me.... me.

Bridget Essex

#6. I gotta say, babes," he said in a nasal Essex whine, "you're giving me sutcha bedroom look."
I stared down into his face, so close to mine. Babes?

Alexis Hall

#7. In a series of articles beginning on Oct. 2, 1966, I wrote about the long-forgotten history of the Liberty Tree. To call attention to how obscure the site had become, I interviewed waitresses at the Essex Delicatessen below the plaque on Washington Street. None knew what the Liberty Tree was.

Ronald Kessler

#8. I have wandered over Europe, have rambled to Iceland, climbed the Alps, been for some years lodged among the marshes of Essex - yet nothing that I have seen has quenched in me the longing after the fresh air, and love of the wild scenery, of Dartmoor.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#9. The rich rarely give a black dog for a white monkey, my friend. It's the way of the world.

Karen Essex

#10. Vine, the Ringling Brothers circus, Friendster, horseshoes, pay phones, typewriters, etc. Things go out of business. Don't think it can't happen to Madison Avenue. Adapt or die.

Andrew Essex

#11. The one I remember is going into London, as it was for us in Essex, on New Year's Eve in 1981. There were four of us and we'd had a few lagers on the way. One of my mates threw up in the Tube and then stood up and fell over in it. We thought it was the funniest thing we'd ever seen.

Alan Davies

#12. Somebody ought to tell him his ambition is showing.

Harry Essex

#13. Richard Rogers was lecturing at Wethersfield, Essex, someone told him, "Mr. Rogers, I like you and your company very well, but you are so precise." To which Rogers replied, "O Sir, I serve a precise God.

Leland Ryken

#14. I grew up in Essex, and all my life I wanted to live in London - now I do. I feel very privileged to be able to live here.

Russell Tovey

#15. The world we learned as children to fear
the milieu of goblins, ghosts, spirits, and magic - when it is the tangible world that is rife with unimaginable horrors. The truth is, we must fear monsters less and be warier of our own kind.
-from Dracula In Love

Karen Essex

#16. My husband hailed from Dagenham; he's an Essex boy. Me myself, I come from Derry City in the northwest of Ireland, so we love to get back.

Roma Downey

#17. The fact that I'm on 'Essex Anthems' makes me happy, especially because half of my family's from Essex.

Jess Glynne

#18. I think Essex Man will vote for a Conservative Government.

Margaret Thatcher

#19. Why, in all the vastness of the world, did a sparkly idiot from Essex make me feel alive?

Alexis Hall

#20. One hundred copies? Of these poems you do not even like?" asked the Roman. "They're nasty bits about famous people; everyone will want them.

Karen Essex

#21. The very worst poetry of all perished along with its creator, Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Greenbridge, Essex, England, in the destruction of the planet Earth.

Douglas Adams

#22. I am more human than rational.

Karen Essex

#23. You cannot hide from the truth, Mina. Anytime you try to argue with the truth you lose. Anytime you try to evade it or run away from it, it will find you down the road.

Karen Essex

#24. I never thought I would work in mainstream superhero comics or Valiant or Marvel. I just set out to make the kinds of stories I wanted to make, which at the beginning was small personal stuff like 'Essex County.'

Jeff Lemire

#25. Suburbia is all about private ownership and not having to share, and it leads to a paranoid, defensive mindset. I know this, having grown up in Essex.

Hari Kunzru

#26. I remembered a truism that I had always known: no woman need let a man know the contents of her mind.

Karen Essex

#27. No rational person would intentionally commit an act of evil, for everyone knows that it would bring the wrath of the community upon him. (Socrates)

Karen Essex

#28. He had to do better. He had to be more equitable.
Because Jane Burke was counting upon him. And she was still holding his hand. And he liked it.

Elizabeth Essex

#29. There are no accidents in this world, that no living being is seduced into an entanglement that he did not invite with his innermost desires. Would you agree with my estimation?

Karen Essex

#30. I knew that his confession would be a tremendous relief to him but a burden to me. Such information, once shared, can never be retracted.

Karen Essex

#31. Feeding the family trumps conviction every time, Mary though, a basic law of the human condition.

Karen Essex

#32. The goblins have been after me ever since I helped the Coven drive them out of Essex. (They were gobbling up drunk people in club bathrooms, and the Mage was worried about losing regional slang.) I think the goblin who successfully offs me gets to be king.

Rainbow Rowell

#33. Mother Astarte who creates and destroys. Kybele, goddess of all that is, was, and ever shall be, he invoked.

Karen Essex

#34. I'm dying twice as fast
as any other American
between eighteen and thirty-five
This disturbs me,
but I try not to show it in public.

Essex Hemphill

#35. I was, by the way - I'm an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K.

Maajid Nawaz

#36. We Brits print banknotes out in Debden in Essex, and have contracted it out to the private sector. Here in the U.S. it is a government operation right in the heart of Washington next door to the Holocaust Museum.

Evan Davis

#37. I am now satisfied of what I always though
which is how much more women can do if they set about it then men. I will lay any bet that had you been here, you would not have got half as much on board as I have.

Karen Essex

#38. I resent almost all of the time I spend in front of the television, but I find 'The Only Way Is Essex' absolutely riveting.

Paul McGann

#39. I'm afraid that the gift of visiting the past is all that we have. We can revisit it, but only as it happened.

Karen Essex

#40. Perfection does not take into account the viewer.' Pheidias had once said to me. 'It exists on it own, independent of and unconcerned with opinions or utility.

Karen Essex

#41. I was born and raised in Essex, just outside London, to a financially comfortable, well-educated Pakistani family.

Maajid Nawaz

#42. This seems charmingly paradoxical: scientists seek one truth but often voice many opinions; journalists often speak of many truths while voicing a uniform view.

Christopher Essex

#43. Do not be controlled by your fear of the future. You will only create a negative reality for yourself.

Brea Essex

#44. Lovers of words have no place where honest work must be done.

Karen Essex

#45. I am telling you that the child will not out live the buildings. Do you understand that wheras women may touch the immortal by giving birth, men
great men
must build monuments and seek fame?

Karen Essex

#46. Young people, not to mention people of all ages, really, really don't like being annoyed. And ads, almost always, were annoying. There is nothing beautiful, let alone useful, not to mention authentic, about being interrupted, distracted, or annoyed by something you didn't choose to see.

Andrew Essex

#47. Well, it seems to me a scientist has need for both vision and confidence.

Harry Essex

#48. Everyone has a secret life. Perhaps yours is merely a gossamer web of thoughts and fantasies woven in the hidden furrows of your mind. Or furtive deeds performed on the sly or betrayals large and small that, if revealed, would change how you are perceived.
-Dracula in Love by Karen Essex

Karen Essex

#49. Essex is an amazing county, with its own set of rules. It's a completely different world.

Denise Van Outen

#50. I had an infinite number of questions and would have been happy for her to recount her life in real time, would have been happy to walk on past Whitechapel and Limehouse into Essex and the estuary and on into the sea if she'd wanted to.

David Nicholls

#51. Oh yeah, I'm an Essex boy and proud of it.

Ross Kemp

#52. The colonists' first protest against the British unfolded on Aug. 14, 1765 at the Liberty Tree. A magnificent elm towering over the other trees nearby, the Liberty Tree stood at the corner of what is now Washington and Essex Streets in downtown Boston.

Ronald Kessler

#53. It is not that I do not approve. Whatever a man's passion, he must pursue them, unless they offend God.

Karen Essex

#54. I think there's always interest in how the other half live - I see myself as a down-to-earth Essex mum who just happens to be living this very glamorous life in Beverly Hills.

Penny Lancaster

#55. I was a mod when I was a kid. I'd be in Italian pencil-leg trousers with those bowling shoes you wear outside and a Fred Perry polo shirt with a V-neck sweater. It was like an Essex uniform - a very specific look.

Stephen Moyer

#56. Gabrielle breathes, holding me close, "you're the reason I had wings, Erin. My whole life, from the beginning of time . . . I was always flying toward you.

Bridget Essex

#57. It appears to me that our sex is only discussed publicly in a derogatory manner. The respectable woman is doomed to anonymity.

Karen Essex

#58. It is a quote from Mihri Hatun, a lady poet who wrote many centuries ago. 'A talented women is better than a thousand untalented men, and a women of understanding is better than a thousand stupid men.

Karen Essex

#59. I glared at him. "You came all the way to Essex just to spy on us?"
"Yeah." He smirked. "I crossed the street. It was really rough.

Leila Sales

#60. Time. What was time? Time is a river that flows both forward and backward. How could that be true?

Karen Essex

#61. He did not smile. 'We are the keepers of the world's greatest treasures. Does that mean nothing to you?'
My children are my greatest treasures,' she said. 'Stone no matter how old, means nothing to me when compared to their welfare.

Karen Essex

#62. Think about it. For the sake of fame, men will risk great dangers. They put themselves in the jaws of death more than for their children. For fame, they will spend their money like water and work their fingers to the bone. Have you not observed this in your own home?

Karen Essex

#63. I was a married woman! she said. Why does every generation believe it is the discoverer of pleasure? Your father was a spectacular lover. Even through the wall, I could hear the triumph in her voice.

Karen Essex

#64. It's rarely pointed out, even though it's so obvious, that the artistic triumph of the small screen has paradoxically come at the expense of advertising.

Andrew Essex