Top 31 Cornett Quotes
#2. Any urbanist has to appreciate New York City and the way it works. The public transit is astonishing.
Mick Cornett
#3. She turned back to the door fishing her key out of her purse. Once the key was in the lock, the door flew open revealing darkness. All she had time for was a squeak before she was abruptly pulled in the house by her shirt. The door slammed shut and locked behind her with a clank of sliding metal.
Nicole Rae
#4. We sometimes think God won't affect our free will, but if it is our will for it to be affected, He'll do it - if you ask.
Bryant Cornett
#5. I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.
Nathan Fillion
#6. We are guided by roses, the scent of a page.
Patti Smith
#7. We did such a great job of creating the interstate highway system in Oklahoma City that we don't have traffic congestion. You can actually get a speeding ticket during rush hour in the city. That's how great our traffic flows.
Mick Cornett
#8. This urbanization that's taking place around the world is very real. But if it's people that are seeking an urbanized environment out of desperation, that's not going to be helpful long term.
Mick Cornett
#9. People in Oklahoma don't wake up every morning wondering what the government is going to do for them.
Mick Cornett
#10. People say the seats at sporting events are too small. My response is, 'That's why we're trying to work on the size of your rear end!'
Mick Cornett
#11. Most of us are addicted to non-active reading. The outstanding fault of the non-active or undemanding reader is his inattention to words, and his consequent failure to come to terms with the author.
Mortimer J. Adler
#12. I'm learning a lot about the culture of weight loss. I didn't know there were bloggers out there who were proud to be fat.
Mick Cornett
#13. We had a branding problem. We have allowed ourselves to be branded by our tragedies. If you said 'Oklahoma City,' chances are the next word out of your mouth was 'bombing.'
Mick Cornett
#14. Think independently and put the country first.
Mick Cornett
#15. Cities have to realize that whatever the federal government is going to do, it's not going to be enough. And cities that proactively take control of their own quality of life initiatives are going to be the cities that ultimately attract the highly talented young people and create the jobs.
Mick Cornett
#16. I'd rather we were rebuilding Philadelphia, as opposed to Kabul ... There are American cities with serious infrastructure problems and we're not addressing them.
Mick Cornett
#17. The bottom line is that we have entered an age when local communities need to invest in themselves. Federal and state dollars are becoming more and more scarce for American cities. Political and civic leaders in local communities need to make a compelling case for this investment.
Mick Cornett
#18. When you have a lot of construction going on, it sends a message of vitality that builds up consumer confidence. It gets people to spend money when they see that energy, that things are happening.
Mick Cornett
#19. If you can attract highly educated people from other parts of the country and keep your own best and brightest, chances are the job creators are going to be successful.
Mick Cornett
#20. I am a critic who is pulled toward history. But Bob Dylan himself is a great historian. He is an historian who acts out history. So it always has a personal stamp. It always has a particular timbre. It always has a particular howl, or a moan, in that voice.
Greil Marcus
#21. I believe in infrastructure, I believe in investing in your hard assets. Where I think government starts to fail is when it starts getting itself weighed down with the social programs. And I think the American public just feels like a lot of that money is tossed aside and wasted.
Mick Cornett
#22. We've seen the kind of social impact a professional sports team has on a city. A team brings high-profile role models into your community who are healthy and they're great images for the city to gravitate toward, especially for kids.
Mick Cornett
#23. The spoiled superstar brat wouldn't get far in Oklahoma City. We're very value-conscious. Our city was settled in a land run. Those 10,000 people were desperate for a better life.
Mick Cornett
#24. I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.
Gordon Parks
#25. We've got to get people out of their cars, out of those drive-thru windows, get them walking, get them in parks and get them more active.
Mick Cornett
#26. Jobs follow people. People don't follow jobs.
Mick Cornett
#27. Do not kill him. That shit would totally bum Jane out.
J.R. Ward
#28. It is not OK for anyone to be obese. There needs to be a cultural shift.
Mick Cornett
#29. We need a better strategy for poor people ... because what we're doing isn't working.
Mick Cornett
#30. If your city's being populated by highly educated twentysomethings with choices, you're probably going to succeed.
Mick Cornett
#31. There are a lot of things that government doesn't do well. One of things that government does do well is build stuff.
Mick Cornett
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