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

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

#Cities Quotes #Sound Quotes #Chicago Quotes

“I'd rather walk in the dark with Jesus than to dance in the light on my own”

Source : Wayne Watson (1998). “The Way Home: Inspirations of a Lifetime”, p.180, Simon and Schuster
“Roger, Tranquility. Be advised there are lots of smiling faces in this room and all over the world. Over.”
“You want to see women your own age in films.”
“My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.”
“On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.”
“Strong Reason and good fancy, joyn'd with experience and tryalls, so that we are assured of the good effects of it.”
“On Wednesday, July 19, the Council, having gleaned and discerned, released its official verdict: the fall of the tile bearing the letter "Z" constitutes the terrestrial manifestation of an empyrean Nollopian desire, that desire most surely being that the letter "Z" should be utterly excised--fully extirpated--absolutively heave-ho'ed from our communal vocabulary!”
“But man does not create...he discovers.”

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