Hansom Quotes

#1. A real hansom-cab took him from the station to Trinity College: the vehicle, it seemed, had been waiting there especially for him, desperately holding out against extinction till that moment, and then gladly dying out to join side whiskers and the Large Copper.

Vladimir Nabokov

#2. The more dressed up you were to begin with, the worse you look after you've crawled out of a smashed hansom cab and fallen into a muddy brook.

C.S. Lewis

#3. The gondola of London [a hansom].

Benjamin Disraeli

#4. Sometimes the last thing learners need is for their preferred learning style to be affirmed. Agreeing to let people learn only in a way that feels comfortable and familiar can restrict seriously their chance for development.

Stephen Brookfield

#5. Can a mere song change a people's minds? I doubt that it is so. But a song can infiltrate your heart and the heart may change your mind.

Elvis Costello

#6. I love animals because all they really want from you is love. Too bad that's even too much to ask for from some people.

Michael Jackson

#7. I've learned to expect the worst from people who hold power.

Dan Brown

#8. If I was any wetter I'd be lying in a puddle.

Amy Andrews

#9. Had records so stellar, they had to lock their resumes in a drawer at night, so the golden light streaming from the pages wouldn't keep them awake.

Ilona Andrews

#10. They asked me for some collateral and I pulled down my pants.

Bob Dylan

#11. Thus set up, pen in hand, for the sake of greater truth, I would turn Portugal into a fiction. That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence? What need did I have to go to Portugal? The

Yann Martel

#12. There's nothing so ill advised as attributing a metonymic value to inanimate objects.

Valeria Luiselli

#13. To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

J.K. Rowling

#14. Give a lift to a tomato, you expect her to be nice, don't ya? After all, what kind of dames thumb rides, Sunday school teachers?

Martin Goldsmith

#15. Every single record I have is a fossil.

Henry Rollins

#16. He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.

Barbara Castle

#17. The only direction not represented in their construction was vertical.

Lee Battersby

#18. If the Bible is what it claims to be, how can we allow it to remain on a bookshelf?

Steven J. Lawson