Chronic City Quotes

#1. The tourists always seem to want something. On Thisby, it's less about wanting, and more about being. I wonder after I say it if he'll think I sound like have no drive or ambition.

Maggie Stiefvater

#2. The first printed mention of bagels ... is to be found in the Community Regulations of Kracow, Poland, for the year 1610 which stated that bagels would be given as a gift to any woman in childbirth.

Leo Rosten

#3. Freedom is self liberation and liberation of people from any suffering.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. He lived in Udine and came out in this way nearly every day to see how things were going, and things went very badly.

Ernest Hemingway,

#5. I hope to have more time to think, to look at the sky, dealing with less crisis management, to learn another language, to travel.

Juliet Stevenson

#6. No man will swim ashore and take his baggage with him.

Seneca The Elder

#7. It was the engineer who determined what problems to investigate, designed the experiments, and defined the assignments for the mathematicians.

Margot Lee Shetterly

#8. The cat looked at its paws and frantically back at its body, as if it had just been transformed into a cat and couldn't accept it.

Heather O'Neill

#9. That's my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind.

Walker Evans

#10. Without commonly shared and widely entrenched moral values and obligations, neither the law, nor democratic government, nor even the market economy will function properly.

Vaclav Havel

#11. It's quite extraordinary that a recourse (branding/identity) which is generally regarded as so significant, and is now so ubiquitous, is so little understood.

Wally Olins

#12. There is such a quiet desperation and chronic sense of dullness to Helena, Montana, which makes it the most socially grotesque and culturally bitter of any of the capital cities.

Brian D'Ambrosio