"I would rather have a square inch of New York than all the rest of the world."

-- Texas Guinan

#New York Quotes #Squares Quotes #World Quotes

“Lionel Johnson comes the first to mind, That loved his learning better than mankind, Though courteous to the worst; much falling he Brooded upon sanctity....”
“I've always believed that happiness is just around the corner. The trick is fining the right corner.”
“He laughs best who laughs last.”
“Give me Caviar Kaspia and give me a hamburger. I love the two extremes.”
“I hear the words, the thoughts, the feeling tones, the personal meaning, even the meaning that is below the conscious intent of the speaker. Sometimes too, in a message which superficially is not very important, I hear a deep human cry that lies buried and unknown far below the surface of the person. So I have learned to ask myself, can I hear the sounds and sense the shape of this other person's inner world? Can I resonate to what he is saying so deeply that I sense the meanings he is afraid of, yet would like to communicate, as well as those he knows?”
“I'm very, very low-key in general.”
“A film in which the speech and sound effects are perfectly synchronized and coincide with their visual image on the screen is absolutely contrary to the aims of cinema. It is a degenerate and misguided attempt to destroy the real use of the film and cannot be accepted as coming within the true boundaries of the cinema.”

Source : Paul Rotha, Robert Kruger, Duncan J. Petrie (1999). “A Paul Rotha Reader”, p.60, University of Exeter Press
“They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.”

Source : "The shoe must go on" by John Aglionby, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2001.

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