Famous Quotes & Sayings

Earl Wilson

I've been around, and I see what other cities are doing, and I think, 'Why not us, we're a proud people,'

Charles Bukowski

I am too sick to lay down the sidewalks frighten me the whole damned city frightens me, what I will become what I have become frightens me.

David Nicholls

This might sound really foolish, but when I came to Edinburgh in 1988 I had spent nearly all my life living south of Bristol, and I was just amazed that a city like Edinburgh was actually in the British isles.

Andy Goldsworthy

People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city.

Doug Larson

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

Don DeLillo

In cities no one notices specific dying. Dying is a quality of the air. It's everywhere and nowhere.

Don Kelly

Traffic accidents have increased 100 percent in the city since the hurricane.

Don Kardong

So here's my advice to city planners. Make your city runnable. Runners are the first wave of troops bringing human activity back to the urban core of any city. Where we go, others will follow. The connection between runnability and livability is so clear (at least to me), that it's surprising that new developments consistently leave pathways out of the plans...

Dylan Thomas

Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction.

Bobby Hull

Well, pioneers always suffer. I don't care who is the first to embark upon things. For instance, settlers that settled the West, Western Canada and the U.S... they went though hell doing it, but it had to be done

Edward Abbey

I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.

Aesop

We learn from the things we suffer.

Aldous Huxley

When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering.

Chuck Jones

You do not 'suffer' if you decide 'that's the way it is' rather than 'why is it this way?'

Anita Roddick

I don't want to be defined by being the founder of the Body Shop, and I don't want to be defined as a woman suffering from Hepatitis C. There's more to my life than that.

John Wesley

Suffer all, and conquer all.

Matthieu Ricard

There is no such thing as good and bad in an absolute sense. There is only the good and bad- the harm in terms of happiness and suffering- that our thoughts and our actions do to ourselves and others.

Martin Luther

God can be found only in suffering and the cross.

Brendan Behan

Prostitutes, more than any other profession, help keep American marriages together.

Ann Beattie

Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.

Ringo Starr

I met The Beatles while we were playing in Germany. We'd seen them in Liverpool, but they were a nothing little band then, just putting it together. In fact, they weren't really a band at all.

Steven Spielberg

Actors just need each other to act together.

Robert Bresson

Bring together things that have not yet been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.

Tommy Bolin

I want the new band to work together for a while, and when we're ready we'll invite every major record company to see us.

Tom Stoppard

The unpredictable and the predetermined unfold together to make everything the way it is.

Stephen Chbosky

I feel like a big faker because I've been putting my life back together, and nobody knows.

Sophie Turner

I used to fancy Jonathan Rhys Meyers. I didnt tell him that when we worked together on Another Me.