"The key to the city of Florence was about two feet long, and painted a garish gold. Hamilton was fascinated by it. "Wow! How big is the lock?" Jonah laughed. "There is no lock, cuz. It's an honorary gig. Back in my crib in LA, I've got a whole shed full of keys from different cities. Want to know the kicker? I can't get at them. The gardener lost the key to the shed."

-- Gordon Korman

#Feet Quotes #Keys Quotes #Cities Quotes

“I remember I was in music class, I was a senior in high school, and my music teacher was like, "You should be a stand-up comic, you could imitate anyone.”

Source : Source: summerfelix.com
“Among the lessons learned in my lifetime is the ease with which corruption can enter high places in the mask of friendship. Sometimes the recipient is not aware of the barbed hook under the gift; often, he who gives may not know but be the unwitting agent of a craftier mind.”
“Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response.”
“Evolution teaches us the original purpose of language was to ritualize men's threats and curses, his spells to compel the gods; communication came later.”

Source : Gene Wolfe (2009). “The Best of Gene Wolfe: A Definitive Retrospective of His Finest Short Fiction”, p.111, Macmillan
“A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.”

Source : 1958 'Un ruban de reves' in L'Express, 5 Jun. Reprinted in English in International Film Annual, no.2.
“The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie.”
“The road to recovery is to stimulate small business and innovation by reducing taxation, regulation, and litigation.”
“Scientists have suddenly become aware of the magic quality of the Earth and the entire universe.”

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