Oxford Street Quotes

• Whenever I tell people I'm a misanthrope they react as though that's a bad thing, the idiots. I live in London, for God's sake. Have you walked down Oxford Street recently? Misanthropy's the only thing that gets you through it. It's not a personality flaw, it's a skill.

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  Charlie Brooker

  Skills   Oxford   People  

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• New West End Company ensures that there is a body that can put significant investment into the West End, targeted directly to the needs of the area and particularly the customers. Great progress is being made to improve Oxford Street and make it a great destination.

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  Philip Green

  Oxford   Progress   Needs  

  4076

• I walk to Oxford Street and climb on the number 8. It's freezing and it starts to rain and it's the ugliest bus I've ever seen, rattling down the ugliest streets, in the ugliest city, in the ugliest country, in the ugliest of all possible worlds.

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  David Thewlis

  Country   Rain   Cities  

  David Thewlis (2011). “The Late Hector Kipling”, p.83, Pan Macmillan

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• My first paid job was delivering newspapers. The first paid acting job I got was dressing up as Edam cheese and handing out leaflets on London's Oxford Street. I got pushed over by these little herberts and given a good shoe-in.

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  Jason Flemyng

  Jobs   Oxford   Dressing Up  

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

  1716

• So, then, Oxford Street, stonyhearted stepmother, thou that listenest to the sighs of orphans, and drinkest the tears of children, at length I was dismissed from thee.

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  Thomas de Quincey

  Children   Oxford   Tears  

  'Confessions of an English Opium Eater' (1822) pt. 1

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• We need to make it safe to cycle across London. Why not pedestrianise parts of London like Oxford Street and Parliament Square? I intend to plant 200 million trees across London in my term as mayor.

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  Sadiq Khan

  Squares   Oxford   Tree  

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