"At night, what you see is a city, because all you see is lights. By day, it doesn't look like a city at all. The trees out-number the houses. And that's completely typical of Seattle. You can't quite tell: is it a city, is it a suburb, is the forest growing back?"

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Source : "In Seattle with Jonathan Raban" by Mike Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2008.

Jonathan Raban

#Night Quotes #Cities Quotes #Numbers Quotes

“I've done a little yoga, not as a professional, and every time I have a good teacher I see the immense possibilities and subtleties in this discipline. It's a little bit like music.”

Source : Source: www.whitelotus.org
“I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective.”
“Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits.”
“Sometimes you couldnâ€™t face the sadness of being forgotten until you felt the comfort of being remembered again.”
“Repressive states are developing weapons that could cause destruction on a massive scale.”
“I stumbled on a joke idea and style that worked, the audience went with it and, from that moment on, I was hooked. It's an amazing feeling.”

Source : "60 SECONDS: Marcus Brigstocke". Interview with Paul Kevan, metro.co.uk. June 27, 2007.
“Never get into a wrestling match with a pig. You both get dirty, and the pig likes it.”
“As the world grapples with more efficient ways of managing time, it lures us into more and more earthly pursuits. But life is not a struggle with time - it is a struggle between good and evil.”

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