"My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs."

-- Cleveland Abbe

#New York Quotes #Ignorance Quotes #Cities Quotes

“And mark this. Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know that I can do it.”
“The betrayal of a belief is not the same thing as ceasing to believe. If this were not so there would be no moral standards in the world at all.”
“My hovercraft is full of eels.”
“An artist needs not so much an audience, as to feel a need to answer, a promise to respond....a good feeling about his art.”

Source : "Poetry and the World". Book by Robert Pinsky, 1988.
“If you love friends, you will serve your friends. If you love community, you will serve your community. If you love money, you will serve your money. And if you love only yourself, you will serve only yourself. And you will have only yourself.”

Source : "Lend Me Your Beers!". www.elle.com. May 18, 2012.
“No, no," Mr. Darling always said, "I am responsible for it all. I, George Darling, did it. MEA CULPA, MEA CULPA." He had had a classical education.”
“I just remembered songs my grandmother taught me, and songs that I learned for the recordings. But, then I learned to speak Italian. When I was there, I hired a professor who stayed with me 24 hours a day. She wouldn't let me speak a word of English.”
“For the most part neoconservatives are people who were once liberals but sobered up. The neoliberal is one who has always been a liberal but now replaces the sentimental pieties with brusque slogans ("High-Tech!") and unpronounceable programs. All else stays the same.”

Source : "Meet Evangelist Tony Campolo" by John Oliver Mason, progressive.org. August 5, 2005.

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