"My favorite optimist was an American who jumped off the Empire State Building, and as he passed the 42nd floor, the window washers heard him say, 'So Far, so good.'"

--

John McGahern

#Empires Quotes #Window Quotes #Building Quotes

“Carl Becker has defined a professor as a man who thinks otherwise; a scholar is a man who otherwise thinks.”
“I love westerns. I've always wanted to do a western.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent. Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
“The balm of life, a kind and faithful friend.”

Source : Mercy Otis Warren (1980). “The plays and poems of Mercy Otis Warren: facsimile reproductions”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint
“Who is of so little faith that in a moment of great disaster or heartbreak has not called to his God?”
“There's a more experimental album that follows that, which is like Black Magic and While You Were Sleeping. Then there's a return to jazz, For All We Know and Yesterday I Sang The Blues. It wasn't like a planned thing, I just kind of realized it when I made a list of my albums. Like, oh wow, this is exactly what I did before.”

Source : Source: revive-music.com
“Lightning never strikes twice in the same place--it doesn't have to.”
“Broadly speaking, in the past few years, we've more than doubled the editorial staff [in Mother Jones], as part of ramping up daily operations that have resulted in huge gains in audience, a slew of awards, new multimedia endeavors, and of course scoops like the 47 percent.”

Source : Source: www.politico.com

You may also like:

Claire Keegan
Writer
Colm Toibin
Novelist
Jack Butler Yeats
Artist
John Banville
Novelist
John Edward Williams
Author
Kazuo Ishiguro
Novelist
Patrick McCabe
Film writer
William Trevor
Novelist
Edna O'Brien
Novelist