"In setting out the walls of a city the choice of a healthy situation is of the first importance: it should be on high ground, neither subject to fogs nor rains; its aspects should be neither violently hot nor intensely cold, but temperate in both respects."

-- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#Baby Quotes #Wall Quotes #Rain Quotes

“I joined an acting class in my junior year in high school. I'd always wanted to try it.”
“If I do three interviews in a day, I can be exhausted, because the process of hearing everyone requires that I empty out myself. While I'm listening, my own judgments and prejudices certainly come up. But I know I won't get anything unless I get those things out of the way.”
“Cinema is capitalism in its purest form.... There is only one solution - turn one's back on American cinema.”
“There is a momentâ€”Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered wordâ€”something that makes it worth while.”
“If this city is to die, it won't be because of the men on the hills, it will be because of the people in the valley. When they're content to live with death, to become what the men on the hills want them to be, then Sarajevo will die.”

Source : Steven Galloway (2009). “The Cellist of Sarajevo”, p.136, Atlantic Books Ltd
“My audition song is, and has been since 1977, 'I Love a Piano.”
“Every government program needs to be more efficient. Instead of pointing out how other programs can tighten their belts, every program administrator must look inward to save money.”
“Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.”

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