Southwark Quotes

#1. I walk into the office at Southwark Bridge every morning, and I have no idea what's going to happen.

Lionel Barber

#2. By modern standards the whole of greater London, including Southwark and Westminster, was small. It stretched only about two miles from north to south and three from east to west, and could be crossed on foot in not much more than an hour.

Bill Bryson

#3. Mint-street and Kent-street--those old plague-spots that disgrace and disfigure the fair face of the Borough of Southwark--teem with blackguardism and vice; but here, too, you find that the birds who here flock are strictly of a feather. Cow-cross,

Henry Mayhew

#4. Edward was now expressing himself on the subject of the French King, drawing upon a vocabulary that a Southwark brothel-keeper might envy. Some of what he was saying was anatomically impossible, much of it was true and all of it envenomed.

Sharon Kay Penman

#5. I went to a performance of 'The Crucible' at the Guthrie when I was a sophomore in high school, and I knew right away that that's what I wanted to do.

John Hawkes

#6. Years, following years, steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away.

Horace

#7. I will always remember
when the stars fell down around me
and lifted me up above
the George Washington Bridge.

Faith Ringgold

#8. Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its own sake.

Wole Soyinka

#9. Everything changes when you make a decision to be one of the courageous ones, someone who chooses to make a life, rather than a living.

Neale Donald Walsch

#10. One merely had the feeling that the disease had exhausted itself, or perhaps that it was retiring after achieving all of its objectives.

Albert Camus

#11. No," she said. "I haven't come across anything I particularly wanted to read lately.

Cassandra Clare