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The idea of a Japanese comedian was not only a rarity, it was non-existent. ↗

#idea #japanese #non-existent #only #rarity

I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, 'There's no place like New York. It's the most exciting city in the world now. That's the way it is. That's it.' ↗

— Robert De Niro

#city #exciting #go #i #i always

As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

#along #any #great #hardly #i

I am very sorry to say that I rejoiced when I once more perceived the towers of Windsor behind me. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

#behind #i #i am #me #more

Westminster Abbey, the Tower, a steeple, one church, and then another, presented themselves to our view; and we could now plainly distinguish the high round chimneys on the tops of the houses, which yet seemed to us to form an innumerable number of smaller spires, or steeples. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

#another #chimneys #church #could #distinguish

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#answers #every #heart #man #nerve

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#forehead #had #heels #high #high heels

I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#fled #god #had #him #i

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. ↗