Quotes About The Savoy

#1. I don't believe this. How can he not want to go to the Savoy? God, it's all right for top businessmen, isn't it? Free champagne, yawn, yawn. Goody bags, yet another party, yawn, how tedious and dull.

Sophie Kinsella

#2. We used to play the Savoy Ballroom, and we always had a boogie tune in the set. Bands like Tommy Dorsey used to do a little boogie woogie. The big bands.

Jay McShann

#3. What does New York sound like? For me, the Charlie Parker at the Royal Roost recordings on the Savoy label are the total embodiment of the New York music experience.

Henry Rollins

#4. Rupert Grayson manifested a talent for survival: it was said of him that even if - unlikely contingency - he had tried to drown himself in the Thames he would have been washed up alive in the Grill Room of the Savoy.

Hugh Massingberd

#5. Biblical preaching emphasizes the gospel and constantly elevates Christ crucified. But it also recognizes that the cross is not only our creed, it is the standard of our ministry.

D. A. Carson

#6. I was a big J. Geils fan, a Steppenwolf fan and a Savoy Brown fan.

George Thorogood

#7. Sometimes when I've got a baseball player alone, I'll just read Emily Dickinson or Walt Whitman to him. And the guys are so sweet, they always stay and listen. Course, a guy'll listen to anything if he thinks its foreplay.

Ron Shelton

#8. Good thing loving someone doesn't require caring about their parents.

Ellen Hopkins

#9. If we successful, we will enter into the history of mountaineering, we will have the opportunity to its success to sacrifice our colleagues.

Jerzy Kukuczka

#10. Do you know how hard it is to kill 30 million people? It's a logistical nightmare.

John Oliver

#11. When I am up in Paris then the restaurant which has remained my favourite for the past decade is Guy Savoy. The menu is huge, sophisticated and very creative but I keep to simple choices.

Jean Reno

#12. When you're building a business or joining a company, you have to be transparent; you can't have two sets of information for two sets of people.

Howard Schultz

#13. Can you imagine being bilingual? Or even knowing anybody that was? I'm not even unilingual. Actually, I shouldn't say that. I don't give myself enough credit. I know enough English to, you know, get by. I can order in restaurants and stuff.

Brian Regan

#14. Nostalgia is one of the legitimate and certainly one of the most enduring of human emotions; but the politics of nostalgia is at best distracting, at worst pernicious.

Irving Kristol

#15. Modern civilisation has based its specific foundation on the principle of liberty which states that man is not a mere instrument to be used by others but rather a main autonomous living being.

Altiero Spinelli

#16. The beet must have been out of the ground a week or more, for it had the ashen exterior of a cancer victim.

Tom Robbins

#17. As far as I'm concerned, the sheriff's department has done an excellent job in Savoy. The department has responded to the needs of our citizens, so I don't want to mess with a system that is working well for us.

Bill Smith

#18. You can choose your transgressions but you can't choose your consequences.

Deborah Stempien