"The cooperation of government at its different levels is important and can only be achieved as long as the people of Chicago are directly involved in our efforts and supportive of our goals."

-- Jane Byrne

#Government Quotes #Long Quotes #People Quotes

“It's not often that you see a smile on the face of the Viper, but it actually looks good on there.”
“People say that I can't speak French. C'est pas vraiment placÃ©. I'm getting better every day. I just have to keep practising. That's the truth.”
“The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.”
“To me the bottom line is: good music is good music.”
“[There are] unseen objects that await us, if we as architects begin to think about designing not the object, but a process to generate objects.”
“Imagism was a reductio ad absurdum of one or two tendencies of romanticism, such a beautifully and finally absurd one that it is hard to believe it existed as anything but a logical construction; and what imagist found it possible to go on writing imagist poetry? A number of poets have stopped writing entirely; others, like recurring decimals, repeat the novelties they commeced with, each time less valuably than before. And there are surrealist poetry, and political poetry, and all the othe refuges of the indigent.”
“It's been nineteen days since I've had a suicidal impulse. One of the things that pulls me back is I think to myself, and as a Muslim, I believe that God created everything and intended everything and here we are in this unbelievably vast universe that's billions of years old. And yet, here I am, an individual human being, in a little corner of the galaxy and planet that is remarkable in some ways and unremarkable in others. All I wish is to say that He meant for every single person who's ever lived to live. I don't necessarily understand why but that was His choice and here I am.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in the hope of learning.”

Source : "John Banville, The Art of Fiction No. 200". Interview with Belinda McKeon, The Paris Review, Issue 188, www.theparisreview.org. Spring 2009.

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