"Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse."

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

#Cities Quotes #Chicago Quotes #Comfort Quotes

“Ten years dropped from a man's life are no small loss; ten years of manhood, of household happiness and care; ten years of honest labor, of conscious enjoyment of sunshine and outdoor beauty; ten years of grateful life--one day looking forward to all this; the next, waking to find them passed, and a blank.”

Source : Mary Mapes Dodge (1866). “Hans Brinker: Or, The Silver Skates, a Story of Life in Holland”, p.262
“To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most.”

Source : "On Writing". Book by Eudora Welty, 2011.
“For whatever reason, people aren't taught that sugar is a massive enemy.”

Source : Source: www.askmen.com
“When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.”

Source : Peter De Vries (2014). “The Tunnel of Love: A Novel”, p.85, University of Chicago Press
“With Kubrick and most film directors, they are in complete control, but one can influence them.”
“If we don't give things a try, nothing will get off the ground.”
“I went to college in Amherst and lived in Northampton for many years and we had our quaint little feminist sex toy shop that somehow made it in town and wasn't scandalous. But you still got the vibe once in awhile that this didn't used to be okay. That twenty years ago women would have come in saying, "You can't sell realistic-looking sex toys. You have to only sell things that look like dolphins or something."”
“Software unification. So that I no longer care what computing device I pick up, whether it's a laptop or desktop, whether it's one I own or one in a public place, whether it has a small screen or a large screen.”

Source : Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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