Merridew Quotes

#1. Merridew might not have been the slenderest of men or the tallest. But he had grip, he had cunning and like many fat men he had unexpected resources of indignation which he was able to turn on like a flood when they were needed.

John Le Carre

#2. All he wanted to do was shove home and stay there until neither one of them could move, but he found himself saying, "Last chance. You sure about this?" If she had any doubts, now was the time to call the whole thing off. "Oh no. You don't get to take the goddamn noble route now.

Katee Robert

#3. Hopefully it will be possible to get all our other albums in American shops one day so if people are interested they can hear it but I'm hoping that people are going to be interested in what we are going to do, not just what we've done.

Ville Valo

#4. Summer dint get far. Why'd'ya think you can?' I

Nick Green

#5. There are no fascinating people, only their works are fascinating.

Ned Rorem

#6. Swirls of antique stained glass, blazes of brass, forests of carved wood and waterfalls of crystal combine to make up the city's most fabulously festive interior.

Mimi Sheraton

#7. I wanted to reject it all because I was sick of being perfect. I was so bored with normality and dreams of poster boys and tabloid covers.

J. Merridew

#8. Noise is an easy thing to hide behind. If you make a lot of noise and shout behind that, nobody can tell what you're singing.

Jarvis Cocker

#9. People admire my confidence, but they never see me when I'm alone. That's when I'm the most raw because I'm not trying to sell myself to anybody.

J. Merridew

#10. He lives in the halflights in secret places, free and alone, this mysterious little great being whom his mistress calls, My cat.

Margaret Benson

#11. Well, yes, but it's not about the football."
"You're saying that football is not about football?"
"It's the sharing," she said. "It's being part of the crowd. It's chanting together. It's all of it. the whole thing.

Terry Pratchett

#12. Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.

Octavio Paz

#13. I pray for the kids in the suburbs ... I pray that one day, we'll all graduate from similarity.

J. Merridew

#14. I am the American Dream. When I bleed, it's awfully red, and when I bruise, it's bluer than the heavens, and I promise you'll get lost somewhere in the whiteness of my smile.

J. Merridew

#15. If you ask me why I've succeeded, it's because I was in the Royal Marines. You have this unbelievable sense of achievement and of overcoming adversity. That's the confidence it breeds.

Brian McDermott