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Quotes About Salisbury

I have family connections with Salisbury through my godmother. Her sister lived there, so I have very fond memories of visiting the city as a child.
~ Alice Roberts
After a while I got in past the velvet rope and ate one of Rudy's world-famous Salisbury steaks, which is hamburger on a slab of burnt wood, ringed with browned-over mashed potato, supported by fried onion rings and one of those mixed up salads which men will eat with complete docility in restaurants, although they would probably start yelling if their wives tried to feed them one at home.
~ Raymond Chandler
Taking notes at a pub in Salisbury, I was mistaken for a health inspector!
~ Sarah Rees Brennan
Will pitched his voice low, a servant's deference, and hoped Salisbury's expansive mode continued, although he dreaded to learn the source of it.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Something filled the Earl's eyes-not fury, precisely, or desperation, but whatever it was the player's part of Will's mind saw it and recognized it as motivation. And saw in that silence the thing Salisbury wouldn't say. James is a terrible king.
~ Elizabeth Bear
THE WARDEN This is the first novel in Trollope's popular series known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire. The novel (Trollope's fourth) was first published in 1855 and was reportedly inspired by a walk around Salisbury cathedral.
~ Anthony Trollope
Farewell, good Salisbury, and good luck go with thee!
~ William Shakespeare
Then was the monument called "Stonehenge," which stands, as all men know, upon the plain of Salisbury to this very day.
~ Knowles James Knowles
THE LONDON "SEASON" OF THE YEAR 1886, UPON ITS surface, was much as other and similar seasons had been before it. No blare of sudden trumpets marked its advent. Victoria was still placidly upon her throne; Lord Salisbury—for the second time—had ousted Gladstone from the premier's chair; Ireland was seething with outrage and sedition; and Beecham's Pills were "universally admitted to be a marvellous antidote for nervous disorders.
~ Vincent Starrett
The newspaper is a marvelous medium. It is extraordinarily convenient and cheap. Let's see. This one cost 75 cents. Now that's a little high. I bought it when I was downtown this morning.
~ Harrison Salisbury
Already a connoisseur of boredom, Tony extended his acquaintance with Salisbury's furnished lodgings and the cheap residential hotels of Andover.
~ Unknown
Te parece que estoy bien? Me he roto el metatarso. —Te compraré uno nuevo cuando vuelva a Salisbury
~ Diana Gabaldon
Perhaps I shall not write my account of the Paleolithic at all, but make a film of it. A silent film at that, in which I shall show you first the great slumbering rocks of the Cambrian period, and move from those to the mountains of Wales, from Ordovician to Devonian, on the lush glowing Cotswolds, on to the white cliffs of Dover... An impressionistic, dreaming film, in which the folded rocks arise and flower and grow and become Salisbury Cathedral and York Minster...
~ Penelope Lively