"An evening up on the Empire State roof-the strangest experience. The huge tomb in steel and glass, the ride to the 84th floor and there, under the clouds, a Hawaiian string quartet, lounge, concessions and, a thousand feet below, New York-a garden of golden lights winking on and off, automobiles, trucks winding in and out, and not a sound. All as silent as a dead city-and it looks adagio down there."

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Source : Dawn Powell (1998). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965”, Zoland Books

Dawn Powell

#New York Quotes #Garden Quotes #Clouds Quotes

“Which is better--to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?”
“So now is the time, more than ever, for those who truly value all the principles of democracy, especially including dissent, to be the most forceful in speaking up, standing up and speaking out.”
“There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.”
“People here believe in uncontrollable passion, in mad rages, and in the brusque inevitability of death.”

Source : Dionne Brand (2012). “A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging”, p.18, Vintage Canada
“The video game story-development process is incredibly broken.”

Source : "Dare to suck: Austin Grossman's novel approach to video games" by Annalee Newitz, www.wired.com. June 5, 2007.
“I sewed good wishes and thoughts into my garments, especially so if they were wedding or graduation dresses.”

Source : Anne Ellis (1997). “Plain Anne Ellis: More about the Life of an Ordinary Woman”, p.12, U of Nebraska Press
“Isn't it interesting that all of the biblical prophets and psalmists were poets?”
“The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards.”

Source : Sir William Francis Butler (1892). “Charles George Gordon”, London ; New York : Macmillan

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