"We have an expression in New York City government - "In God we trust, but for everyone else, bring data." It's so easy to pick up a sound byte and say, "Oh, yeah, yeah, I believe that," without really thinking."

-- Michael Bloomberg

#New York Quotes #Believe Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“art lies in the fine choice. The artist does not teach us to see facts: he teaches us to feel harmonies.”

Source : "Talks on the Appreciation of Art". "The Delineator" Magazine, January 1915.
“Some poets marry a language; some have affairs with it; some treat it as a parent, some as a child, some as an equal, or as a friend.”

Source : Stephen Burt (2009). “Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry”, Graywolf Press
“Even originally well-defined pencils of cathode rays from the Sun cannot reach the Earth. For Birkeland's theories to be correct, the existance of such cathode rays is clearly presupposed to be necessary...and this assumption is untenable.”
“Oh, I don't talk about God.”

Source : "Shepard Smith: What I've Learned (with Video!)" by Mark Warren, www.esquire.com. December 15, 2008.
“I was a middle child and was used to negotiating. But there was nothing I could do to reverse my mothers condition.”
“That shot was going goalboundward”
“People either know Alan Rudolph and love every single one of his films or they don't know him at all.”
“I was always the second heavy.”

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