Quotes of: City-hall Keyword

If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition's stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its sense of pleasure.

House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City

In the world of the Machiguenga, sadness could be equated with anger, and anger was a perilous emotion, by which a foreigner could lose his life.

House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City

What I believe is that when it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason. You are here for a reason -- and it's not to fail and die.

Hollow City

The forest did not tolerate frailty of body or mind. Show your weakness, and it would consume you without hesitation.

House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City

The inertia of a jungle village is a dangerous thing. Before you know it your whole life has slipped by and you are still waiting there.

House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City

Previous journeys in search of treasure have taught me that a zigzag strategy is the best way to get ahead.

House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City

Any man who has ever led an army, an expedition, or a group of Boy Scouts has sadism in his bones.

House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City

Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did.

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

It was as if the city itself was preparing for some impending catastrophe. There had always been talks of ghost and darkness here, even in his boyhood, and now that darkness seems to be seeping from the stones and timbers as much as it was descending...

Blood

That night's show was watched by ten million people, so I guess that director at The Second City who said the audience "didn't want to see a sketch with two women" can go shit in his hat.

Bossypants

The circumstances of everyday life were too demanding-and in American's great cities, appalling.

The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866

Jace slammed his hand down on the stele. “Clary-“ “She said she doesn’t want it,” said Simon. “Ha-ha.” “Ha-ha?” Jace looked incredulous. “That’s your comeback?

City of Ashes

You left me. You made a pet out of me, and then you left me. If love were food, I would have starved on the bones you gave me.

City of Fallen Angels

Fate is never fair. You are caught in a current much stronger than you are; struggle against it and you'll drown not just yourself but those who try to save you. Swim with it. and you'll survive

City of Ashes

Jordan slammed the coatrack down on the ground and sighed. "if you were a vampire, this would have been a lot more useful." "yes," said jace. "or, you know, just someone with a lot of coats.

City of Fallen Angels

Do you remember the long orphanage of the train stations We crossed cities that turn-tabled all day And vomited at night the sunshine of the day ("The Voyager")

The Cubist Poets in Paris: An Anthology

You said there was nothing in the world you wanted" The Queen's eyes glittered. "When you imagine your life without him, do you still feel the same?

City of Fallen Angels

I love you Clary. More then I ever-- God. More than i probably should. You know that, don't you?

City of Fallen Angels

I suppose you've always been amazing at this stuff?" "I was born amazing" Jace stroked her cheek with the tips of his fingertips, lightly but enough to make her shiver.

City of Fallen Angels

We had and incident. I took care of it." "Really." Jace's voice dripped sarcasm. "Do you even know how to use that knife, Clarissa? Without poking a hole in yourself or any innocent bystanders?

City of Ashes

But unlike you," said Jace, "there is nothing of hell in us." "You are mortal; you age; you die," the Queen said dismissively. "If that is not hell, pray tell me, what is?

City of Ashes