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Quotes About Somerville

Chancellor said, 'She is concerned for your future.' 'She is concerned for her dog and her cat,' Lymond said. 'It is a Somerville failing.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
and he flew in to her from the clutter of Somerville, the compost heap behind the Harvard Yard.
~ Elizabeth Hardwick
Philippa Somerville, standing back a little, did not withdraw her arm. In her white face, a shadow of motherly irritation appeared. 'Has no one here any sense? Be quiet and sit down. The world will look after itself for a night, without your hand on the rim.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
This, I did not need telling, was Anthony Blanche, the "aesthete" par excellence, a byword of iniquity from Cherwell Edge to Somerville.
~ Evelyn Waugh
Here conversation about Judith Spratt was not on the menu, since they sat surrounded by Fellows of the College. Most of them seemed to be men—somewhat to Liz's surprise, since her view of Somerville had been formed by Dorothy Sayers's Gaudy Night.
~ Stella Rimington
I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.
~ Alan Hovhaness
I've always relied on a big producer and big studios. I had budgets that were ridiculous.
~ Jimmy Somerville