Planning Department Quotes

#1. In the 1960s the planning department of the London County Council, whose unofficial motto was Finishing What the Luftwaffe Started, decided that what London really needed was a series of orbital motorways driven through its heart.

Ben Aaronovitch

#2. Being a writer
is all about having something to say. And it'd better be interesting. If you don't have anything
interesting to say, don't become a writer. Become something useful. Like a doctor.

Candace Bushnell

#3. A respectful woman is a righteous woman.

Habeeb Akande

#4. I come from a pretty strange family.

Illeana Douglas

#5. There is a presence within you
that has never suffered.
It lives in joy that has no cause.
It is who you most deeply are.

Jan Frazier

#6. There are elements of Piglet that are me: the shyness and the anxieties and fears. Even after all these years. The more you know, the higher your standards are and the more you have to lose.

John Fiedler

#7. We've certainly learned a lot of lessons from Katrina, from Rita. Rita was better than Katrina. We're doing a better job planning. We're closer - more closely aligned with the Department of Defense. These things would be positive things if we were to have another attack.

Michael Chertoff

#8. I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb - and I'm not blonde either.

Dolly Parton

#9. Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.

Wendell Willkie

#10. I set the coffee aside and got a cup of water instead. I could never see why people drank that stuff. It tasted like soil boiled in mud, wit a topping of dirt.

Brandon Sanderson

#11. On opening sentences: "If in the first chapter a hurricane is going to blow down an oak tree which falls through the kitchen roof, there's no need to first describe the kitchen."

James Thayer

#12. I would spend hours and hours gazing at the stars and wondering, what's out there? Sometimes I wondered if maybe there was another girl like me on another planet some place gazing at the stars and thinking about the same things.

Anousheh Ansari

#13. He was softly breathing his life away, the dark blood flowing down his skin of snow and his eyes growing heavy and dim. She kissed him, but Adonis knew not that she kissed him as he died.

Edith Hamilton

#14. The more complex the network is, the more complex its pattern of interconnections, the more resilient it will be.

Fritjof Capra

#15. You're only poor if you give up. The most important thing is that you did something. Most people only talk and dream of getting rich. You've done something.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#16. When I circumnavigated the globe the outcome didn't really matter, it was about a goal I'd set myself, but sustainability is part of all our lives

Ellen MacArthur

#17. The old middle-class prerogative of being permanently in a most filthy temper.

John Mortimer