Quotes About Deptford

#1. When she sings that song you're with that elderly couple in that pub in Deptford and the mundane becomes romantic and beautiful and I think that's probably the great thing about any sort of paintings or music or something, is just when nothing becomes everything

Jools Holland

#2. Mr. Robertson Davies has also suggested in his Deptford Trilogy that the same great truism which applies to writing, painting, picking horses at the track, and telling lies in a sincerely believable way, also applies to magic: some people got the knack, and some people don't. Hilly didn't.

Stephen King

#3. His failure hurt too badly for that. It was a bad equation. Best erase it and try a new one.
If adults could put aside their obsessions with such firmness, the world would undoubtedly be a better place. Robertson Davies does not say that in his Deptford Trilogy ... but he strongly hints at it.

Stephen King

#4. I meet people from really grand backgrounds who had horrible parents who took no interest in them, whereas I'm a working-class boy from Deptford who was worshipped by all my rellies. Everybody in my extended family helped to raise me, and I realise now how lucky I was to grow up among kind folk.

Jools Holland

#5. There are two trilogies I admire: Robertson Davies's 'The Deptford Trilogy' and Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials.'

Amy Bloom

#6. The last positive thing England did for cricket was to invent it.

Ian Chappell

#7. I enjoy life. I think I'll enjoy death even more. Life is too confusing.

Cat Stevens

#8. Entitlement never wins Championships, Investment wins Championships.

Jay Bilas

#9. I don't have too much spare time, but I try to play games as much as possible. I played a little growing up, but I never played any tennis games before.

Lleyton Hewitt

#10. God only expects man and woman to be together and to be legally married, only if they so are in love with each other.

Manny Pacquiao

#11. No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.

Camille Paglia

#12. People complain that cities don't have fresh, sustainable food, but it's just not true.

Dan Barber

#13. Hello, Goddess."- Roman Arceneaux

Brenda Tetreault

#14. You're saying that man "makes" his territory by naming the "things" in it?

Bruce Chatwin

#15. The human voice sounds thicker with a chorus and reverb than a dry signal.

Ken Hill

#16. Love is what you've been through with somebody

James Thurber

#17. To change your life, change your thoughts.

Debasish Mridha

#18. There's one thing which I hate about color films ... people who use up a lot of their despairing producer's money by working in the laboratory to bring out the dominant hues, or to make color films where there isn't any color.

Claude Chabrol