"A knowledge of general literature is one of the evidences of an enlightened mind; and to give an apt quotation at a fitting time, proves that the mind is stored with sentential lore that can always be used to great advantage by its possessor."

-- James Ellis

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“The mayor of New York is the chief executive of the city. It is a complex organization and it requires the requisite skills to understand how to be the leader of the people and manage the government of N.Y.”

Source : "Joe Lhota: The Daily News Sitdown". Interview with Celeste Katz, www.nydailynews.com. January 18, 2013.
“I know I may have done some bad things, but I'm not a bad person.”
“We need to restore the spirit of irreverence in music.”

Source : Pierre Boulez, Martin Cooper (1990). “Orientations: Collected Writings”, p.482, Harvard University Press
“Not only was it enough to be a cover band, it was perhaps the highest calling. After all, if you could play music recorded by others, stay true to the original, and still add fire and flare, why not?”

Source : Paul Shaffer, David Ritz (2009). “We'll Be Here For the Rest of Our Lives: A Swingin' Show-biz Saga”, p.58, Anchor
“The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.”
“At its best, the US Open demands straight drives, crisp iron shots, brilliant chipping and putting, and strategic position play. Plus the patience of St. Francis and the will of Patton. At its worst, the Open eradicates the difference in ability between a Tom Purtzer and a Tom Watson and throws both in the same jail of high rough and high risk shots. This is the disturbing tendency in the Opens of the seventies and eighties, one which worries everyone in golf.”
“The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar.”

Source : Bernard Tschumi (1996). “Architecture and Disjunction”, p.247, MIT Press
“You have to have the mentality of executing your game when you don't feel like there's a lot of hope. I think the best feeling is when somebody pushes you to the limit and you dig down a little bit extra. By the same token, you also need a little luck. Sometimes they come together.”

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