Edinburgh Quote by Jess Walter Download Open image ““If London was an alien city, Edinburgh was another planet”” — Jess Walter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Edinburgh London
There's an idea that London is a planet on its own: that it's starting to diverge from the rest of the solar system. We… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
“London is one of the most fascinating, historic, amazing cities in the world!” — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
“London is where people go in order to come back from it sadder and wiser.” — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“I haven’t even been here an hour and already, Edinburgh is the city of my dreams.” — Jacqueline E. Smith Copy Share Image
“If I had to pick two words to describe Edinburgh, I would tell you that it's majestic and beautiful. Really, really old, but somehow… — L.H. Cosway Copy Share Image
“By the way, we also hate it when people . . . call Artemis "the city in space." We're not in space; we're on… — Andy Weir Copy Share Image
“London was like a drug - an incredible high you never wanted to come off of. It made you feel like you could do… — Chanel Cleeton Copy Share Image
“Edinburgh is a great big black bastard of a city where there are ghosts of all kinds.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
For many people it's Facebook, or sports on TV, whatever it is. I have my own demons that I battle. But whatever they are,… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
Without sounding overly sentimental about the process, I'd say trying to describe how you tend to conceive of a book is like describing how… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“What person who has enjoyed life could possibly think one is enough?” — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
For me, movies and television are interesting because they are the dominant storytelling form of our time. My first love will always be fiction,… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
In seventh grade, with some vague sense that I wanted to be a writer, I crouched in the junior high school library stacks to… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“There would seem to be nothing more obvious, more tangible and palpable than the present moment. And yet it eludes us completely. All the… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
People sometimes ask who I would cast in my books and I never have any idea. I don't think I could ever write a… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“A writer needs four things to achieve greatness, Pasquale: desire, disappointment, and the sea.” — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“And Pasquale forced himself to look away from her then. It was like prying a magnet off steel, but he did it: he turned forward in the boat, closed his eyes, still seeing her standing there in his memory. He shook with the strain of not looking back until they rounded the breakwater into the open sea and Pasquale exhaled,… — Jess Walter Copy Share
I've been simultaneously drawn to and repelled from Hollywood for years. — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
I cling to the idea that Herman Melville had to work at the end of his career watching ships in a dock, as a… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
I would like to go to Russia very much — although the bastards murdered half my family. — Prince Philip Copy Share Image
Many people have heard the remarkable example of devotion involving a Skye terrier dog who worked for a Scottish shepherd named Old Jock. In 1858, the day after Jock was buried (with almost nobody present to mourn him except his shaggy dog) in the churchyard at Greyfriars Abbey in Edinburgh, Bobby was found sleeping on his master's grave, where he… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Copy Share
If you're not keen on crowds, it might be best to give Edinburgh a miss during festival time when it can get extremely busy. — Dexter Fletcher Copy Share Image
“The writing talent of Edinburgh is textured - we have poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, dramatists and more.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I have to say I like Edinburgh, but I'm not a big fan of the Festival - I like it but I'm not a… — Lee Mack Copy Share Image
I was an adult and I was in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. I was performing in this cave - they used to bury the plague victims in these caves underneath the streets of Edinburgh, when I got this weird cold sensation up my spine, it gave me this really weird feeling, and then I looked up and there was this… — Rhys Darby Copy Share
I have an older brother and an older sister - and they had the time of their lives at university. They were at Newcastle and Edinburgh. Looking up to them the whole time, I wanted to go to university and live the life they were living, having a blast, and I didn't get in. I didn't get into any of… — Rose Leslie Copy Share
There's no leaving Edinburgh, No shifting it around: it stays with you, always. — Alan Bold Copy Share Image
I love Scotland. Edinburgh is a beautiful city and has a wonderful tradition of supporting the arts. — Peter Hambleton Copy Share Image
I used to say Edinburgh was a beautiful actress with no talent. I thought it was just like a shortbread tin. I think that's… — Michelle Gomez Copy Share Image
“It's easy to identify tourists on Edinburgh's Royal mile. They're the ones bound in knitted scarves, wearing puffa jackets and woolly hats no matter… — Gabriella Bennett Copy Share Image
