"There's something hypocritical about a city that keeps half of its population underground half of the time; you can start believing that there's much more space than there really is-to live, to work."

-- Gloria Naylor

#New York Quotes #Believe Quotes #Cities Quotes

“You get attached to places, you know. Like people, I suppose.”

Source : Tatiana de Rosnay (2007). “Sarah's Key”, p.75, Macmillan
“It's been a pleasure to bring my talents to south beach now on to Memphis.”
“The technology is the independent variable, the social system the dependent variable. Social, systems are therefore determined by systems of technology; as the latter change, so do the former.”
“We must remain, in a word, in an intellectual disposition which seems paradoxical, but which, in my opinion, represents the true mind of the investigator. We must have a robust faith and yet not believe.”
“When the Quaker Penn kept his hat on in the royal presence, Charles (King Charles II) politely removed his, explaining that it was the custom in that place for only one person at a time to remain covered.”
“What I lack in height, I make up for in wicked good hearing.”
“The war in Iraq is still going on. The British are helping. Mexico wants to help, but they need a ride over there.”
“A smartphone links patients' bodies and doctors' computers, which in turn are connected to the Internet, which in turn is connected to any smartphone anywhere. The new devices could put the management of an individual's internal organs in the hands of every hacker, online scammer, and digital vandal on Earth.”

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