"I kind of miss the old sleazy Times Square, in a way. And yet I don't mind not being accosted by all sorts of strange people."

-- Malachy McCourt

#Squares Quotes #People Quotes #Missing Quotes

“In fact, the individual outlook becomes less and less valuable and more and more harmful unless it is transmitted into the corporate outlook.”
“For why are we here if not to try to fathom one another? Not through facts alone, but with the full extent of our imaginations. And what are stories if not tools for imagining?”

Source : Leah Hager Cohen (2014). “No Book but the World: A Novel”, p.180, Penguin
“Every time you have to come up with a new body of work for a new show, you're aware that people are just ready to rip you apart, they're just waiting for you to fall or make the slightest trip up.”
“I really believe that you could do horror very inexpensively. I don't think it has anything to do with the effects, the effects are not the most important parts.”
“So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.”
“Be in a state of gratitude for everything that shows up in your life. Be thankful for the storms as well as the smooth sailing. What is the lesson or gift in what you are experiencing right now? Find your joy not in what's missing in your life but in how you can serve.”
“If our government won't spend the money to protect New Orleans sufficiently today, what are the chances we will spend the money to protect dozens of coastal cities post-2050, once everyone knows that sea levels will keep rising and intense hurricanes will occur relentlessly?”

Source : Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co
“Salvation for our educational ills... will have to come from within an educational community willing to say we have met the enemy and it is us.”

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