"There aren't any liberals left in New York. They've all been mugged by now."

-- James Q. Wilson

#New York Quotes

“I was probably 35 when I wrote the first story. The voice is kind of a mix in that it has a young voice, but it's also someone who's looking back. I like that kind of double vision.”
“I'm a light comedienne, that's really where I live the most often.”

Source : "Taking Flight". Interview with Jenelle Riley, www.backstage.com. March 9, 2011.
“I know Busta Rhymes for about a year now and we did a song together and we got an album together which is called "Godzilla vs. King Kong", which is going to be me and Busta. That was really the first time we rocked together on stage.”
“Learn your techniques well and be prepared to let them go when you touch the human soul.”
“He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.”

Source : "Memoirs of a Geisha". Book by Arthur Golden, 1997.
“Now begin in the middle, and later learn the beginning; the end will take care of itself.”
“I do honestly and sincerely believe in the necessity or desirability of Hindu-Muslim unity. I am also fully prepared to trust the Muslim leaders. But what about the injunctions of the Koran and Hadis? The leaders cannot over-ride them. Are we then doomed? I hope not. I hope your learned mind and wise head will find some way out of this difficulty.”

Source : Presidential address by Muhammad Ali Jinnah to the Muslim League in Lahore, www.columbia.edu. 1940.
“God loves us the way we are, but too much to leave us that way.”

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