#city

Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#approaching #been #big #big city #city

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity. ↗

— Douglas Horton

#complexity #puzzle #simplicity

It's just as difficult to live in a self-made hell of privacy as it is to live in a self-made hell of publicity. ↗

— Michael Hutchence

#hell #just #live #privacy #publicity

Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#more #patience #tenacity #than #their

Or maybe it's just that beautiful things are so easily broken by the world. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#fragility #jocelyn-fray #beauty

The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jace-wayland #love

He made a sound like a choked laughed before he reached out and pulled her into her arms. She was aware of Luke watching them from the window, but she shut her eyes resolutely and buried her face against Jace's shoulder. He smelled of salt and blood, and only when his mouth came close to her ear did she understand what he was saying, and it was the simplest litany of all: her name, just her name. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-bones #clary-fray #jace-wayland #love #love

I suppose you've always been amazing at this stuff."- Clary "I was born amazing." - Jace ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clary-fray #jace-lightwood #city

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies. ↗

— Henry Adams

#effect #ends #killing #men #power

A friend told me about the casting notice for 'Queer Eye.' I was in Chicago and I had a contract with 'Esquire' magazine, so had been coming to New York City regularly and thought I'd catch a cheap flight, crash on a friend's sofa and do this hilarious audition that I had no chance of winning. ↗

— Ted Allen

#audition #been #casting #catch #chance