Strand Quotes

What about the hero of The House on the Strand? What did it mean when he dropped the telephone at the end of the book? I don't really know, but I rather think he was going to be paralysed for life. Don't you?

Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds.

They had certainly exasperated them, and could not disperse them, as after every charge - and some of these drove the people right against the shutters in the shops in the Strand - they returned again.

She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).

By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job at the Strand bookstore, which was a little better than the tax job.

I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies.

Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.

The book is called 'Thanks for Nothing' and it's really the story of how I got into comedy and traces back every strand in my life that is relevant to that story. It's kind of an autobiography but isn't, as it stops about 25 years ago. It goes right up to the first time I do stand up.