#city

To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength. ↗

— Lawrence Clark Powell

#capacity #creative #factual #fictional #lasting

Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations. ↗

— Paul Rand

#expectations #goal #good #good idea #idea

I believe that the Apple Shuffle is an excellent compromise among the conflicting requirements of simplicity, elegance, size, battery life, and function. ↗

— Donald Norman

#apple #battery #believe #compromise #conflicting

Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#coarse #idleness #infinite #infinite capacity #living

I did decide that you have to put your name about a bit, and so, although I would have preferred to have never done publicity or an interview or a fashion shoot for a magazine or a chat show. ↗

— Jeremy Northam

#although #bit #chat #decide #did

At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above the level of the beasts that perish, and enabled him to see, at least in the distance, the shining towers of the City of God. ↗

— Alfred Noyes

#above #beasts #been #certain #city

In New York City, the meek don't inherit the earth. The big mouth does. ↗

— Barbara Corcoran

#big mouth #city #does #earth #inherit

I took a plane from New York City to Los Angeles for an audition. I met all the people. After that, I was told to have another audition, but I didn't want to go there again. ↗

— Ed O'Neill

#again #angeles #another #audition #city

One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#certain #certainly #east #enduring #history

You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to Beirut for that - but a foreign correspondent begins to understand poverty from a different perspective. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#beat #begins #beirut #big #big city