Quotes of: Kansas-city Keyword

Let your rest be perfect in its season, like the rest of waters that are still. If you will have a model or your living, take neither the stars, for they fly without ceasing, nor the ocean that ebbs and flows, nor the river that cannot stay, but rath...

The Intellectual Life

Alderic, Knight of the Order of the City and the Assault, hereditary Guardian of the King's Peace of Mind, a man not unremembered among the makers of myth, pondered so long upon the Gibbelins' hoard that by now he deemed it his. Alas that I should sa...

Monster Mix

Henceforth the crisis of urbanism is all the more concretely a social and political one, even though today no force born of traditional politics is any longer capable of dealing with it. Medico-sociological banalities on the 'pathology of housing pro...

The Situationists and the City: A Reader

Because of this false idea, they devised an aesthetic belief in making the exterior of an object a reflection of the practical functions of the interior and of the constructive idea. Yet these analyses of utility and necessity that, according to thei...

The Situationists and the City: A Reader

4. Radicalism of forms. If a new model once created meets with much success on account of its greater efficiency than its predecessor, it lends certain neighbouring forms a formal radicalism, which attempts to borrow from the appearance of the new fo...

The Situationists and the City: A Reader

I blame Chennai. Pointless neighbourhood gossip travels faster than tsunami alerts around here. I know that aunties are a universal problem but this city is particularly aunty dominated. And by that, I mean, even many of our twenty-somethings act lik...

Sophie Says

It is well that there are palaces of peace And discipline and dreaming and desire, Lest we forget our heritage and cease The Spirit’s work—to hunger and aspire: Lest we forget that we were born divine, Now tangled in red battle’s animal net, Mu...

C.S. Lewis

Miette: One? [One grunts] Miette: You asleep? [One breathes deeply and mumbles] Miette: What did you do before? One: One sailor. Harpooned Whales. One night [pauses] One: One hear whales singing. After [gestures throwing of harpoon] One: always alway...

The City of Lost Children

It is necessary to find one's own way in New York. New York City is not hospitable. She is very big and she has no heart. She is not charming. She is not sympathetic. She is rushed and noisy and unkempt, a hard, ambitious, irresolute place, not very ...

Love

Today, specific travel attitudes and methodologies are as carefully calibrated as attire worn on a first date. Which is absurd. It's absurd when it means visiting only the most famous cities and landmarks, strictly hewing to the instructions of the l...

Love

Sergei doesn’t yearn for love…he thirsts for domination, and now he has finally achieved it.

City of Lights: The Trials and Triumphs of Ilyse Charpentier

You know Jace Lightwood?" said Emma. "I-- What?" "He's famous," Emma said with obvious amazement. He's the best Shadowhunter. The best.

City of Heavenly Fire

Clary curled up on the ground seeing in front of her not the shell of a destroyed town but the eyes of the brother and the sister that she would never have.

City of Heavenly Fire

Every time I think I'm missing a piece of me, you give it back.

City of Heavenly Fire

The way Magnus’ breath had sounded, rattling in his chest, before he’d said his father’s name.

City of Heavenly Fire

I think they’ll probably put that on my gravestone. ‘He Was Heterosexual and Had Low Expectations.

City of Heavenly Fire

Is there any reason you wish to preserve amity with the Shadowhunters, besides the fact that one of them is your lover?

City of Heavenly Fire

I see that even as the world plunges into darkness and peril, you two stand around discussing your love lives. Teenagers.

City of Heavenly Fire

Mothers,lock up your daughters, then lock up your maidservants, then lock up yourselves. Lord Montgomery is on the prowl

City of Heavenly Fire

Everyone gets the time they get together, and no more. Maybe we're not so different that way.

City of Heavenly Fire

People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.

City of Glass