#visited

The Five Points was the toughest street corner in the world. That's how it was known. In fact, Charles Dickens visited it in the 1850s and he said it was worse than anything he'd seen in the East End of London. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#charles #corner #dickens #east #end

I always spend time exploring the customs and attitudes of the countries I'm using for locations, and interviewing the people who live there. I've visited over 90 countries thus far. ↗

— Sidney Sheldon

#attitudes #countries #customs #exploring #far

I was 18 when I first visited London, I'm very provincial like that, but I must confess the moment I got to America I thought: This is the place. It was more open, with 24-hour cities and pubs and restaurants that didn't close. ↗

— David Hockney

#cities #close #confess #first #got

I visited a scientist who had a helmet with magnetic fields controlled by computer sequences that could profoundly affect your mood and your perceptions. ↗

— Douglas Trumbull

#computer #controlled #could #fields #had

The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression. ↗

— Gary Larson

#bluebird #chicken #depression #happiness #his

I visited those friends who'd just had a baby, and she was washing dishes and he was cleaning the house, and I burst with happiness. And in their minds, they were in this terrible domestic rut. ↗

— Josh Lucas

#burst #cleaning #dishes #domestic #friends

I visited the Gymnasium in The Hague and passed my final examination (in the sciences section) in 1943. ↗

— Simon van der Meer

#final #gymnasium #hague #i #passed

When President Jiang Zemin visited India in 1996, the two sides decided that they would jointly build a constructive partnership of cooperation oriented towards the 21st century. ↗

— Li Peng

#build #century #constructive #cooperation #decided

I had learned something of Miami from people who had visited there, so I knew what to expect. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#had #i #knew #learned #miami

I visited the Chinese side last year. The Chinese are in a constant state of military readiness. They have all their nuclear weapons in the area, presumably trained on targets across the border. ↗

— Harrison Salisbury

#area #border #chinese #constant #constant state