"A skyscraper is at the same time a triumph of the machine and a tremendous emotional experience, almost breath-taking. Not merely its height but its mass and proportions are the result of an emotion, as well as of calculation."

-- George Gershwin

#Emotional Quotes #Triumph Quotes #Machines Quotes

“By oft repeating an untruth, men come to believe it themselves.”
“I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth into the air without knowing the uncertainty and the exhilaration of first-born adventure.”

Source : Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.14, Open Road Media
“Brazil was, is, and will be in fashion.”

Source : "Brazil's Gilberto Gil, Minister of Cool". edition.cnn.com. September 01, 2003.
“I was actually the manager of the games department of an amusement park when I was at college, so I understood the coin-op side of the games business very well.”
“Attacks on alternative religious groups are attempts to psychologize - to medicalize - a controversy that, on deeper examination, is clearly a controversy over ideology and lifestyle.”
“It had struck me that the world was full of holes, holes which you could fall into, never to be seen again. I couldn't understand the difference between disappearance and death. Both seemed the same to me, both left holes. Holes in your heart holes in your life.”

Source : Sally Gardner (2013). “Maggot Moon Adult Edition”, p.22, Hot Key Books
“A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.”
“I am a Death Dealer, sworn to destroy those known as the Lycans. Our war has waged for centuries, unseen by human eyes.”

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