Famous Quotes & Sayings

Liam Gallagher

New York is my favorite city in the world.

Lewis Mumford

He who touches the soil of Manhattan and the pavement of New York, touches, whenever he knows or not, Walt Whitman.

Le Corbusier

Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds.

Alan Turing

Bell Labs Cafeteria, New York, 1943: His high pitched voice already stood out above the general murmur of well-behaved junior executives grooming themselves for promotion within the Bell corporation. Then he was suddenly heard to say: "No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company."

Charlie Cox

I love New York, but I have to admit that I feel very English, and I do miss that sense of history that you have everywhere in Britain.

Charlie Chaplin

When we got off the streetcar at Times Square, it was somewhat of a letdown. Newspapers were blowing about the road and pavement, and Broadway looked seedy, like a slovenly woman just out of bed.

Charlie Chaplin

I don't think the real America is in New York or on the Pacific Coast; personally, I like the Middle West much better, places like North and South Dakota, Minneapolis and Saint Paul. There, I think, are the true Americans

Charlie Chaplin

The glamour of it all! New York! America!

Charles Stross

My agent is based in New York. And due to a historic accident, my publishing track is primarily American - I'm sold into the UK almost as a foreign import! So I'm quite out of touch with what's going on in UK publishing.

Richard Russo

Writers are people who put pen to paper every day.

Jackie Smith

We have not received any paperwork on that from them.

Byron Katie

Put your stressful thoughts on paper, question them, and have a great life.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

It's curious how easy it is to tell a piece of paper what you don't dare say to someone's face.

David Ricardo

Neither a state nor a bank ever have had unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power.

Demetri Martin

Automatic paper towel dispensers are a solution to something that was never a problem in the first place.

Daniel Handler

Blank paper has always inspired me.

Bill Watterson

I'd like to see cartoonists measuring their work by higher standards than how many papers their strips are in and how much money they make.

Randi Miller

We're still going to be a politically independent paper. We're still going to be the paper for Boulder's young adults and serve that readership with our reporting and advertising.

Lin Yutang

The question that faces every man born into this world is not what should be his purpose, which he should set about to achieve, but just what to do with life? The answer, that he should order his life so that he can find the greatest happiness in it, is more a practical question, similar to that of how a man should spend his weekend, then a metaphysical proposition as to what is the mystic purpose of his life in the scheme of the universe.

Nicole Sullivan

I was only in LA for two weeks when I got that job. And I didn't work again for two years.

Joe Gibbs

Two weeks in a row, he's been pretty impressive.

Alan Shepard

We're going to see passengers in space stations in 15 years, who will be able to buy a ticket and spend a weekend in space.

Alan Bullock

Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive.

Alain Prost

I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend, so I know at the beginning of the race, from all that I have analysed during the practice, whether I will win the race or not.

Al Seckel

I live in one of the coastal cities in Southern California, and every so often I like to take a walk down the boardwalk in Venice during the weekends when it is abuzz with lively activity.

Dave Barry

Here in Miami, on weekends, amusement-seekers will come to the marina, set up folding chairs, and spend a highly entertaining day watching boat owners perform comical maneuvers such as forgetting to set their parking brakes and having their cars roll down the ramp and disappear, burbling gaily, below the surface.

Bryant Gumbel

You'll never see me working five days a week again.