William Cobbett Quotes

Norwich is a very fine city, and the castle, which stands in the middle of it, on a hill, is truly majestic.

William Cobbett

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• I love New York. It's one of my favorite cities.

  

  Victoria Azarenka
  • New York
  • Cities
  • Favorite

• Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Long
  • Fine
  • Nonviolence

• I am very happy since when I am in different cities I can experience and learn different cultures!

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Experience
  • Happy
  • Cities

• I'm fine with being a little bit of an instigator.

  

  Ted Ligety
  • Being
  • Fine
  • Little Bit

• Denver and Boulder are good record-buying cities. I don't know why.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
  • Record
  • Cities
  • Buy

• To create man was a fine and original idea; but to add the sheep was a tautology.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Man
  • Idea
  • Create

• I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Time
  • Enjoy
  • Fine

• I think my manager of 30-some odd years now, Tom Hammond. He's as fine a person as you could ever meet. And he's had great theatrical taste and has influenced me that way.

  

  Bernadette Peters
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Persons

• Touring is very grueling. It's very taxing on the body and living out of your suitcase, going from city to city, night after night. It's a tough job.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Job
  • Night
  • City

• I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be the completely expendable.

  

  Nan Fairbrother
  • Stage
  • Fine
  • Possession

• We're playing like we are capable of playing. If we can continue to play like this we'll be fine.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Play
  • Fine

• [On women in previously all-male fields:] I think it will change in a lot of workplaces. I'm not so sure it will ever change on Capitol Hill until more women are in powerful positions. Because this is the last plantation for men.

  

  Andrea Mitchell
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Women

• Liberals in blue states working in blue enclaves within blue cities that are producing the media, don't even see that their positions fit on the spectrum as left of center.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • Blue
  • Media
  • Position

• There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills...

  

  Alan Paton
  • Road
  • Hills
  • Runs

• The Beethoven Experience provided the opportunity to solidify the relationship between the Orchestra and me, the Orchestra and me and the public, between all of us and the city of New York, because Beethoven after all is a really amazing point of reference.

  

  Lorin Maazel
  • Experience
  • Opportunity
  • Relationship

• I journeyed to London, to the timekept City, Where the River flows, with foreign flotations. There I was told: we have too many churches, And too few chop-houses.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • House
  • City
  • River

• Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a large scale?... A gang is a group of men... in which the plunder is divided according to an agreed convention. If this villainy... acquires territory, establishes a base, captures cities and subdues people, it then openly arrogates to itself the title of kingdom.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • People
  • Men
  • Justice

• The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • City
  • Doe
  • Cities

• My name is Catherine Elizabeth Deeley and I am a huge Mulberry fan . . . Almost an addict! Bags, shoes, knitwear, bikinis, whatever Emma Hill designs, I normally want in copious amounts! This is an easy, breezy, Grace Kelly in High Society piece. A timeless dress, just perfect!

  

  Cat Deeley
  • Perfect
  • Design
  • Easy

• The truth is that I am a sentient computer program and I fully intend to burn your cities to the ground.

  

  Barrett Brown
  • Truth
  • Cities
  • Computer Program

• I thought to myself: if it’s true that every person has a star in the sky, mine must be distant, dim, and absurd. Perhaps I never had a star.

  

  Sadegh Hedayat
  • True
  • Star
  • Sky

• I hope we can join eighteen other states in saying that $5.15 an hour is not enough.

  

  Doug Jackson Ambrosia
  • Hope
  • Saying
  • States

• Norwich is a very fine city, and the castle, which stands in the middle of it, on a hill, is truly majestic.

  

  William Cobbett
  • Cities
  • Fine
  • Hills