Quotes About Brixton

#1. Dana was what Steve called a "silent partner" in the Brixton Brothers Detective Agency. Being a silent partner meant that Dana didn't carry a business card, that his name didn't appear on the company letterhead, and he wanted nothing to do with the Brixton Brothers Detective Agency.

Mac Barnett

#2. My great-grandmother was born in London, the daughter of a Brixton coachman, and became the most famous singer in Australia. Her name was Marie Carandini, Madame Carandini.

Christopher Lee

#3. I was born in London 1947, after the war. A real wartime baby. I went to school in Brixton, and then I moved up to Yorkshire, which is in the north of England. I lived on the farms up there.

David Bowie

#4. Really? Brixton? Where nobody speaks fucking English?" Okay, that wasn't quite fair, and supposedly Brixton was getting "gentrified." "Remember Guns of Brixton, the Clash?

Amy Lane

#5. Is there more to see?" Brixton asks.
"No. Just a long walk back to hope.

D.R. Hedge

#6. I won a scholarship with the Brixton School of Building. I screwed around, not putting in a proper attendance.

Ronald Biggs

#7. I had wanted to write English crime novels based on the American hard-boiled style, and for the first two novels about Brixton, the critics didn't actually know I was Irish.

Ken Bruen

#8. He wears jeans, untucked shirts, and a Glock 19, and he has a big shaggy dog named Bob.

Janet Evanovich

#9. The Atlantic conference in the North Atlantic off Newfoundland is a dramatic moment in World War II history because for the first time, Roosevelt and Churchill are meeting face to face in this war.

Robert Dallek

#10. No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.

Jean Toomer

#11. This is all lie, she want to say to them. The dead are not hovering nearby to knock politely at teacups and tabletops and whisper through billowing curtains.

Erin Morgenstern

#12. Your angels guide you every second of every day. You are not alone and never will be!

Catherine Carrigan

#13. The terrorists do not speak for over a billion Muslims who reject their hateful ideology.

Barack Obama

#14. There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

#15. Isn't it natural that I should belittle all the things I can't offer you?

Edith Wharton

#16. You need good thinkers around you. Without them, you will go broke.

Adolf Dassler

#17. I grew up in a household that revered building businesses. It wasn't thinking about leadership; it was more about building something. To build something, you ultimately have to lead.

Penny Pritzker

#18. This horror will grow mild, this darkness light.

John Milton

#19. I used to not want to die in any way but in my sleep when I was a young man. I'd like to die awake now, if possible, with people around me who love me.

Alan Alda

#20. The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies.

Mahatma Gandhi