#city

When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#creative #did #distance #door #find

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#audacity #everything #undertake

If you smash a city when you're trying to capture it, you actually end up providing the perfect terrain for the defenders while blocking the access for your own armoured vehicles. ↗

— Antony Beevor

#actually #blocking #capture #city #defenders

I never had any real expectations about what sort of success I would have or all the publicity. ↗

— Joshua Bell

#any #expectations #had #i #never

City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#charms #city #city people #country #fuss

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things. ↗

— Robert Southey

#beams #body #bones #city #health

I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy. ↗

— Ziyi Zhang

#anything #complicated #discovered #dressing #fussy

If we are to meet the growing electricity demand in the United States without significantly increasing emissions of greenhouse gases, we must maintain a diverse supply of electricity, and nuclear power must be part of that mix. ↗

— Judy Biggert

#diverse #electricity #emissions #gases #greenhouse

I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#awe #back #capacity #filled #filmmakers

I quit my band in New York City in 1969 and I got really angry at them. I got angry at one of my guitar players and I dove over the drum set and we got into a fight. ↗

— Steven Tyler

#band #city #dove #drum #drum set