"New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world . . . are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver."

-- Alan Brien

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“To the scientist Nature is a storehouse of facts, laws, processes; to the artist she is a storehouse of pictures; to the poet she is a storehouse of images, fancies, a source of inspiration; to the moralist she is a storehouse of precepts and parables; to all she may be a source of knowledge and joy.”
“Catcalling is pretty much never going to work. Like anytime a guy's like, "Hey girl! Can we friends?" It's like, I don't know you. I'm just walking by right now, and that's weird. No relationship has ever started from a catcall.”

Source : Source: www.gq.com
“...sometimes I get tired. Sometimes I get bored. And sometimes all I want, more than anything else in the world, is to go on a freaking date.”

Source : Kiersten White (2011). “Paranormalcy (Paranormalcy, Book 1)”, p.19, HarperCollins UK
“I'm open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.”

Source : "Karl Lagerfeld, Global Aphorist" by Bruce Sterling, www.wired.com. July 17, 2009.
“The secret of living is to find a pivot, the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.”
“People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.”
“O, it's die we must, but it's live we can, And the marvel of earth and sun Is all for the joy of woman and man And the longing that makes them one." (Between the Dusk of a Summer Night, 13-16)”

Source : William Ernest Henley, “Between The Dusk Of A Summer Night”
“This is one big problem with working remotely: no one believes you have a job at all.”

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