#city

One of the professors told me last week that he feels bad teaching with the way the economy is now. ‘What’s the point?’ he said. ‘Kids aren’t getting jobs.’ You never hear faculty talk that way. He did. ↗

— Daniel Amory

#adventure #chicago #city #downtown #dream

She smiled. Her skin looked whiter than he recalled, and dark spidery veins were beginning to show beneath its surface. Her hair was still the color of spun silver and her eyes were still green as a cat’s. She was still beautiful. Looking at her, he was in London again. He saw the gaslight and smelled the smoke and dirt and horses, the metallic tang of fog, the flowers in Kew Gardens. He saw a boy with black hair and blue eyes like Alec’s, heard violin music like the sound of silver water. He saw a girl with long brown hair and a serious face. In a world where everything went away from him eventually, she was one of the few remaining constants. And then there was Camille. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-fallen-angels #jem-carstairs #magnus-bane #tessa-gray #will-herondale

Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there's a lot of subtlety. That's what I'm proud of. ↗

— Ben Folds

#i #i write #inside #lot #proud

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them. ↗

— Henry Ford

#although #america #capacity #great #intellect

Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock. ↗

— Alvin Toffler

#capacity #change #future #limited #man

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#greatness #simplicity #truth #where

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#embrace #few #manifest #reduce #selfishness

I'm the No. 1 developer in New York, I'm the biggest in Atlantic City, and maybe we'll keep it that way. ↗

— Donald Trump

#biggest #city #developer #i #keep

I grew up in a city. My parents would think there was something wrong with America if they knew I was secretary of agriculture. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#america #city #grew #i #knew

I use the city because it saves time, I don't have to do a lot of research on the setting. ↗

— Walter Wager

#city #i #lot #research #saves