"I needed real help in New York and I had no friends. I looked up at those buildings, I couldn't see the sky or nothing, and I said, 'Well, there ain't no mountain high enough,' and I just started - the words just fell out of my mouth, really."

-- Nickolas Ashford

#New York Quotes #Real Quotes #Sky Quotes

“I think I was interested in history without knowing it and that became very clear when I arrived in France. Everything that I was really interested in was there, but I knew nothing, no education, no art education, no education beyond high school. It was extremely overwhelming and it still is.”
“I think that George Lucas' 'Star Wars' films are fantastic. What he's done, which I admire, is he has taken all the money and profit from those films and poured it into developing digital sound and surround sound, which we are using today.”
“I am a cat. As yet I have no name”
“President Obama had lunch with Republican leaders at the White House today and had to do without salt, pepper and butter. Not for dietary reasons. The Republicans refused to pass anything.”
“Janice used to say that instinct was reason in a hurry; I was not so sure about the reason part.”
“The primary joy of life is acceptance, approval, the sense of appreciation and companionship of our human comrades. Many men do not understand that the need for fellowship is really as deep as the need for food, and so they go through life accepting many substitutes for genuine, warm, simple.”
“But understanding will always require some effort. You probably wouldn't admire a friend who was good at everything if it cost her no effort.”
“It's amazing how we can do things simultaneously, like talking and not listening.”

Source : "Self-Annihilating Sentences: Saul Gorn's Compendium of Rarely Used Clichés" by Saul Gorn, University of Pennsylvania Department of Computer and Information Science Technical Report No. MS-CIS-85-0, (p. 11), repository.upenn.edu. March 1992.

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