"And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary"

-- Robert Rauschenberg

#New York Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Quality Quotes

“I'm hoping the students will hear their own voices actually, so it's not that they're looking for things they already know, they're looking to discover things they don't know. I would characterize it as the vitality of thought, the versatility of thinking.”
“The Poet is a kinsman in the clouds Who scoffs at archers, loves a stormy day; But on the ground, among the hooting crowds, He cannot walk, his wings are in the way.”
“Giving a party is like having a baby: its conception is more fun than its completion; and once you have begun it, it is almost impossible to stop.”

Source : Jan Struther (1956). “A pocketful of pebbles”
“Naked I came into the world, but brush strokes cover me, language raises me, music rhythms me. Art is my rod and staff, my resting place and shield, and not mine only, for art leaves nobody out. Even those from whom art has been stolen away by tyranny, by poverty, begin to make it again. If the arts did not exist, at every moment, someone would begin to create them, in song, out of dust and mud, and although the artifacts might be destroyed, the energy that creates them is not destroyed.”
“We tend to be more environmental at home than at work, regardless of the industry we're in.”

Source : "'Walking Dead' Producer Gale Anne Hurd on Greening Film and TV Production" by Etan Vlessling, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 21, 2012.
“Artists are the gate keepers of truth. We are civilizationâ€™s radical voice.”

Source : "Rose McGowan Opens the Women's Convention with a Powerful Speech" by Claire Valentine, www.papermag.com. October 28, 2017.
“On a whim, he stopped and bought a watch from a sidewalk vendor. Normally, Billy could not abide keeping time, especially when it was attached to oneâ€™s body. Time was like a relentlessly needy lapdog one had to haul around. It barked too much and had no sense of loyalty.”

Source : Jim Carroll (2010). “The Petting Zoo: A Novel”, p.25, Penguin
“Eggs give me protein after a good work out. The cheesier, the better!”

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