"Brooklyn Heights itself is a window on the port. Here, where the perspective is fixed by the towers of Manhattan and the hills of New Jersey and Staten Island, the channels running between seem fingers of the world ocean. Here one can easily embrace the suggestion, which Whitman felt so easily, that the whole American world opens out from here, north and west."

-- Alfred Kazin

#Running Quotes #New York Quotes #Ocean Quotes

“My webmaster lives in Munich and is a very dear friend of mine. He is doing a great job on the site and it is constantly being updated and always will.”

Source : Jimmy Carl Black Interview by Stephen Moore in Munich, Germany, www.stevemoorebooks.com. March 29, 2000.
“If you can be funny, it means you're intelligent. Your brain is working fast.”
“The love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behavior to authority is as hypocritical as the religion that is not productive of a good life.”
“Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.”

Source : Isaac Barrow (1859). “The theological works of Isaac Barrow, ed. by A. Napier”, p.345
“As long as you're eating well and moving your body every day, age is just a state of mind”
“One has two duties - to be worried and not to be worried.”
“People who can be very good can be very bad too.”
“The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.”

Source : Louis I. Kahn (1986). “Louis I. Kahn: l'uomo, il maestro”

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