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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!”

People Feet Streets Stones Nimble Fleet Street

Author:Eleanor Farjeon

“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.”

World Names Black London Holes Pits Vermin Londoners Sweeney Sweeney Todd Fleet Street

Author:Stephen Sondheim

“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].”

Men Believe Done Roles Streets Degrees Demon Grown Man Barbers Sweeney Sweeney Todd Fleet Street

Author:Johnny Depp

“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.”

Easy Difficult Streets Killing Demon Shaving Barbers Sweeney Sweeney Todd Fleet Street

Author:Johnny Depp

“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.”

Years Different Shows Father Careers Streets Reactions Journalist Employers Leeds Fleet Street

Author:Lionel Barber

“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.”

People Ifs Needs Streets Photographer Aggressive Fleet Street

Author:Alfred Eisenstaedt

“The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.”

Men Streets Journalism Journalist Dull Melancholy Recipes Fleet Street

Author:Charles Lamb

“Movies such as 'Citizen Kane' and 'The Front Page' portrayed an era when driven newspapermen would do anything to get a story. The U.K.'s rough-and-tumble Fleet Street remains something of a throwback to that era, as demonstrated by the recent phone-hacking scandal - which led to the demise of yet another century-old paper, the 'News of the World.'”

World Stories Streets Century Fronts Citizens Paper News Pages Remains Phones Driven Eras Rough Scandal Demise Hacking Throwback Citizen Kane Fleet Street

Author:Nathan Myhrvold

“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.”

Should Made Would Be Dies Deserve Wicked Relief Sweeney Sweeney Todd Fleet Street

Author:Stephen Sondheim

“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!”

Use Seems Roots Miracle Bottles Boots Activate Elixir Sweeney Sweeney Todd Fleet Street

Author:Stephen Sondheim

“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.”

Stills Ends Lines Cities Cases Trouble Streets Serious Phones London Noise Strain Laurels Phone Booth Fleet Street

Book:The Secret Keeper

Source: The Secret Keeper

“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.”

Source: Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats

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

Involved Get Involved Sweeney Sweeney Todd Fleet Street

Author:Marion Jones

“Culture is a sham if it is only a sort of Gothic front put on an iron building -- like Tower Bridge -- or a classical front put on a steel frame -- like the Daily Telegraph building in Fleet Street. Culture, if it is to be a real thing and a holy thing, must be the product of what we actually do for a living -- not something added, like sugar on a pill.”

Ifs Real Culture Streets Fronts Building Products Holy Bridges Iron Sugar Towers Steel Pills Gothic Real Things Telegraph Fleet Street

Book:Distributist Perspectives: Volume II: Essays on the Economics of Justice and Charity

Source: Distributist Perspectives: Volume II: Essays on the Economics of Justice and Charity