"Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture."

-- Jonathan Raban

#Art Quotes #Real Quotes #Men Quotes

“Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.”

Source : Charles Dickens (2015). “Great Expectations”, p.14, Booklassic
“Choosing one thing over another doesn't necessarily mean we love the thing we choose. If given the choice to eat spinach or broccoli, you may choose broccoli. It may only mean you don't want to eat spinach. Heaven is not for people who just want to skip Hell. Heaven is reserved for those who love Jesus, who have been rescued by Him and who long to praise Him. If someone doesn't have much use for praising Him now, it's foolish to think they're ready for Heaven.”
“Hey anyone who thinks a non-militaryâ€“grade rappelling cable can support the weight of two grown men and a miniature donkey deserves to fall off a cliff.”
“I would never want to move to L.A.”
“The Games have been decimated. If you take away the Eastern Bloc, you take away 50% of the medals”
“It is still color, it is not yet light.”
“Don't make the process harder than it is.”
“I'm not religious. I love what Clive James said the other day. James is a brilliant writer, but he keeps on writing poems on stuff. And he said, "God doesn't have a leg to stand on."”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

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