"Like the Roman town grid, the New York plan was laid down on largely empty land, a city designed in advance of being inhabited; if the Romans consulted the heavens for guidance in this effort, the city fathers of New York consulted the banks."

-- Richard Sennett

#New York Quotes #Father Quotes #Land Quotes

“There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.”
“If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure.”
“Some things are too terrible to grasp at once. Other things - naked, sputtering, indelible in their horror - are too terrible to really grasp ever at all.It is only later, in solitude, in memory that the realization dawns: when the ashes are cold; when the mourners have departed; when one looks around and finds oneself - quite to one's surprise - in an entirely different world.”
“One never sees Paris for the first time; one always sees it again...”
“An exceptional company is the one that gets all the little details right.”
“Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.”
“I was inspired by the classic rock radio of the Seventies. They separated Chuck Berry and the Beatles from the Led Zeppelins and Bostons and Peter Framptons of the time. In many ways, classic rock became bigger than mainstream rock.”
“I've never had a desire to be famous. Lots of actors are actually extremely shy. I have shy areas.”

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