"Reservations and cloth napkins are really minor pinnacles in the high sierra of the New York lunch. The zenith, the Mount Whitney of lunches, the noon meal at which all local lines of force converge [is] the Bar Room of the Four Seasons."

-- Raymond Sokolov

#New York Quotes #Lunch Quotes #Bars Quotes

“I want people to retake ownership of their lives. I don't want people with perfect bodies. I want people who are striving to get more fit and feel great. That's what America needs. A lot of American's have lost hope, and I am trying to inspire it back into people.”
“The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.”
“NO I haven't read 50 Shades of Grey - I've been close enough to Jay Leno in real life.”
“Is there a God? No. God is a verb, not a noun.”
“I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.”

Source : Entertaining Mr. Sloane act 1 (1964)
“God is not going to negotiate His holiness... in order to accommodate us.”
“I never imagined that the Free Software Movement would spawn a watered-down alternative, the Open Source Movement, which would become so well-known that people would ask me questions about 'open source' thinking that I work under that banner.”
“I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction.”

Source : "Tor Editor Patrick Nielsen Hayden On the Future of SF Books". Interview with Annalee Newitz, io9.com. August 26, 2009.

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