Quotes of: City-hall Keyword

I write edgy, sexy teen romances, and that's what I'll continue to do.

Simone Elkeles

When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all the little problems. Once that's all done, trust comes in.

Itzhak Perlman

Wallace: [Entering through the gates of Tottington Hall] Ho-ho! Very classy

The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

[referring to police outside a pool hall] Cheese: Get that sausage off my lawn.

Gone Baby Gone

Although we are being presented in Carnegie Hall, we have to furnish a budget for our guest stars, and for the music writing - which is a huge budget in any orchestra that plays popular music.

Skitch Henderson

Let me say this: I think men are a full-time job, and I'm young and I already have one job. I'm just focused on my career.

Chanel Iman

Ever afterward, though the dance of creation change around me in the hall of eternity, I shall be the same.

Anandamayi Ma

I don't want to achieve immortality by being inducted into the Hall of Fame. I want to achieve immortality by not dying.

William De Morgan

I've learned one general thing in filmmaking: to work with one strong idea. One strong concept that pushes you to work in a certain way artistically.

Darius Khondji

These stories, I realized, were lost. Nobody was going to know that part of the city but as a place where a bomb went off. The bomb was going to become the story of this city. That's how we lose the city - that's how our knowledge of what the world i...

The Scatter Here is too Great

To walk is to lack a place. It is the indefinite process of being absent and in search of a proper. The moving about that the city mutliplies and concentrates makes the city itself an immense social experience of lacking a place -- an experience that...

The Practice of Everyday Life

Well, very long ago, on the spot where the Wild Wood waves now, before ever it had planted itself and grown up to what it now is, there was a city - a city of people, you know. Here, where we are standing, they lived, and walked, and talked, and slep...

The Wind in the Willows

Corus lay on the southern bank of the Oloron River, towers glinting in the sun. The homes of wealthy men lined the river to the north; tanners, smiths, wainwrights, carpenters, and the poor clustered on the bank to the south. The city was a richly co...

Tamora Pierce

How about a little teaser from CROWN OF ICE? Thyra Winther, the current Snow Queen speaks about her "home": At night the palace’s crystal halls are tinged sapphire. One of the first bits of magic that Voss taught me was to set the carved walls alig...

Crown of Ice

I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight, I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it...

The present aspect of slavery in America and the immediate duty of the North: a speech delivered in the hall of the State house, before the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Convention, on Friday night, January 29, 1858

All this family shit! Harry said. How can you reinvent your life if the original versions won't leave you alone?

In the City of Shy Hunters

Every time you hear a car alarm, Ruby said, another New Yorker has gone to hell.

In the City of Shy Hunters

God made man because he loves to hear stories, Alessandro said. That's a good story, huh?

In the City of Shy Hunters

The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.

Chicago: City on the Make

... Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you.

Chicago: City on the Make

Long ago the signalling had become no more than a meaningless ritual, now maintained by an animal which had forgotten to learn and a robot which had never known to forget.

The City and the Stars