Royal Street Quotes

#1. The only way to take one's mind off it all is to study, and I do a lot of that.

Anne Frank

#2. Drama was all I ever wanted to do. There was no plan B!

Rachel Brosnahan

#3. Nature, through all her works, in great degree,
Borrows a blessing from variety.
Music itself her needful aid requires
To rouse the soul, and wake our dying fires.

Charles Churchill

#4. People of ze wurl, relax!

Tom Robbins

#5. We cannot get by Auschwitz. We should not even try, as great as the temptation is, because Auschwitz belongs to us, is branded into our history, and - to our benefit! - has made possible an insight that could be summarized as, 'Now we finally know ourselves.'

Gunter Grass

#6. It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.

William Makepeace Thackeray

#7. I'm a fuzzy-headed warm-hearted liberal, and I think fuzzy-headed warm-hearted liberalism is an ideological stance that needs defending-if necessary, with a hob-nailed boot-kick to the bollocks of budding totalitarianism.

Charles Stross

#8. I lived in the Quarter for two years, but in the end I got tired of Birmingham businessmen smirking around Bourbon Street and the homosexuals and patio connoisseurs on Royal Street.

Walker Percy

#9. A man should love others as himself and also their parents as his own.

Lao-Tzu

#10. A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.

Igor Stravinsky

#11. When I was growing up, I did not exercise at all. I was raised in the French Quarter in New Orleans. If I saw someone running, I would call the police because I thought they stole something on Royal Street.

Richard Simmons

#12. My favourite piece of architecture is the Royal Conservatory of Music on Bloor (273 Bloor Street West). When they cleaned up the old building a few years back, the stonework just knocked me out. It is a great melding of the Old Toronto and the new.

Andy Barrie

#13. A boy who once wiped his ass with poison ivy probably doesn't belong in a smart people's club.

Stephen King

#14. of a vacant house on Simpson Street, waiting for a FedEx van. The curtains of the house were

J. Royal Horton

#15. I haven't sat down and memorized the language of Elvish, and anyone who does that is crazy!

Evangeline Lilly

#16. It's a mission for me to make sure that philanthropy doesn't feel like a vintage hand-me-down from mom or dad. I want people to feel compelled to do something positive because they just love it, they're excited about it, and it's cool.

Usher

#17. The strongest natures, when they are influenced, submit the most unreservedly; it is perhaps a sign of their strength.

Virginia Woolf

#18. If you think you can stand looking and not touching for eight months, you're welcome to try."
"Try' being the operative word," he said, sighing. "No, I can't. And I don't want to try.

Leah Raeder

#19. You name it, I've got it. Some players have to be 100 percent (to play), but I don't.

Torii Hunter