Fleet Street Quotes

• There's a hole in the world Like a great black pit And the vermin of the world Inhabit it ... And it goes by the name of London.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Names, Black, World

  Song: No Place Like London

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• They all deserve to die. Even you, Mrs. Lovett Even I. Because the lives of the wicked should be made brief For the rest of us death would be relief.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Wicked, Relief, Would Be

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• Let Pirelli's / Miracle Elixir / Activate your roots, sir... Keep it off your boots, sir- / Eats right through. Yes, get Pirelli's! / Use a bottle of it! / Ladies seem to love it... Flies do, too!

  Stephen Sondheim

  Roots, Miracle, Bottles

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• Get involved in everything you've ever dreamed of doing.

  Marion Jones

  Sweeney Todd, Get Involved, Sweeney

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• El hombre debe tener una rara receta para la melancolía, que puede ser aburrido en Fleet Street.

  Charles Lamb

  Hombres, Recetas, Aburridos

  Carta a Thomas Manning, 15 de febrero de 1802 (cita de 'The Londoner', nº 1), en E. Marrs (ed.) 'The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb' vol. 2 (1976) p. 57

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• My father was a journalist for 50 years in Leeds and Fleet Street. I thought about a career in business to show I could do something different, but the reaction among prospective employers was, shall we say, underwhelming.

  Lionel Barber

  Father, Years, Careers

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• The killing of everyone was the easy part, the most difficult part was lathering them up and shaving them, that's the part that freaked me out the most.

  Johnny Depp

  Shaving, Demon, Sweeney Todd

  "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Johnny Depp interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I do believe that you have to bring some degree of truth from yourself to the role [Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street ]in and I'll admit it here, I have shaved a grown man before. I have done it. And it wasn't Tim [Burton].

  Johnny Depp

  Believe, Men, Degrees

  "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Johnny Depp interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• In Fleet Street, in Fleet Street, the People are so fleet, They barely touch the cobble-stones with their nimble feet!

  Eleanor Farjeon

  Feet, People, Stones

  "Pan-Worship: And Other Poems (Fleet Street)". Book by Eleanor Farjeon, 1908.

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• La cultura es una farsa si es sólo una especie de fachada gótica sobre un edificio de hierro, como el Tower Bridge, o una fachada clásica sobre un armazón de acero, como el edificio del Daily Telegraph en Fleet Street. La cultura, si ha de ser algo real y sagrado, debe ser el producto de lo que realmente hacemos para ganarnos la vida, no algo añadido, como azúcar en una pastilla.

  Eric Gill

  Real, Bridges, Iron

  Eric Gill, D. Liam O'Huallachain, John Sharpe (2008). “Distributist Perspectives: Volume II: Essays on the Economics of Justice and Charity”, Ihs Press

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• I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree, a little island in Lough Gill, and when walking through Fleet Street very homesick I heard a little tinkle of water and saw a fountain in a shop window which balanced a little ball upon its jet, and began to remember lake water. From the sudden remembrance came my poem Innisfree.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Ambition, Lakes

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

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• Gerry?' Laurel had to strain to hear thought the noise on the other end of the line. 'Gerry? Where are you?' 'London. A phone booth on Fleet Street.' 'The city still has working phone booths?' 'It would appear so. Unless this is the Tardis, in which case I'm in serious trouble.

  Kate Morton

  Phones, Cities, Lines

  Kate Morton (2012). “The Secret Keeper”, p.272, Pan Macmillan

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• Películas como "Ciudadano Kane" y "Primera plana" retrataron una época en la que los periodistas hacían cualquier cosa por conseguir una noticia. La agitada Fleet Street del Reino Unido sigue siendo una especie de retroceso a esa época, como lo demuestra el reciente escándalo de las escuchas telefónicas, que llevó a la desaparición de otro periódico centenario, el News of the World.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Phones, Stories, Demise

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• Photographers don't need to be aggressive. Some are. Henry Benson is aggressive - but then he's from Fleet Street. If you can talk to people, you don't need to push people around.

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  People, Needs, Photographer

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