"I'd read about Los Angeles and this fact stuck in my mind: that the city gained 1,000 new people every day. In 1956! A thousand people every day! I felt: 'I want to be part of that."

-- Edward Ruscha

#Cities Quotes #People Quotes #Mind Quotes

“The ocean is the grand vehicle of trade, and the uniter of distant nations. To us it is peculiarly kind, not only as it wafts into our ports the harvests of every climate, and renders our island the centre of traffic, but also as it secures us from foreign invasion by a sort of impregnable intrenchment.”

Source : James Hervey (1856). “Meditations and contemplations: to which is prefixed the life of the author”, p.90
“All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.”
“Welcome to the information age. Data, data, everywhere, but no one knows a thing.”
“I always had to diet. I'm diabetic, so it's a lifestyle for me anyway just to stay healthy and not end up in the hospital.”
“I keep my campaign promises, but I never promised to wear stockings.”
“The United Nation's goal is to reduce population selectively by encouraging abortion, forced sterilization, and control of human reproduction, and regards two-thirds of the human population as excess baggage, with 350,000 people to be eliminated per day.”
“Every project is different. When I'm working on my albums, I've worked with different producers and they've all had different personalities. The recording studio sets the vibe, and that changes as well.”

Source : Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 30, 2012.
“Didn't need the user icon to know you're white and male.”

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