Crescent City Quotes

#1. They went through Crescent City, a tired-looking town, where you could get a beer for a dollar and maybe get a fractured skull for nothing.

Richard Preston

#2. You go to grab your moments and squeeze them dry. Enjoy them while you're having them. Then remember and enjoy them all over again in your memory. And try to have more good ones than bad ones - - or at least remember more of the good ones.

Jean Ferris

#3. The day you realise how fragile your civilisation across the natural forces is, it may be too late to build a sounder one! All realisations must happen today, right now!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#4. That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing nothing but death, alone with his contingency and the objective meaninglessness of his projecting meanings, is a truly unprecedented situation.

Hans Jonas

#5. So," said Patrick, "how is my favorite dysfunctional family? Righteously fucked or fucking righteously?

David Dalglish

#6. There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.

Alexander Smith

#7. Venice took on the feeling of a city paved with black glass, the odd lantern, torch, or candle reflecting in the canals like distant windows into hell, the crescent moon throwing silver scythes across the water where it could find its way between buildings.

Christopher Moore

#8. The river breeze washed over him. He saw the magnificent views of the city and the bridge connecting Algiers Point to New Orleans. He marveled at the crescent shape of New Orleans as the ferry traveled nearly parallel to the curve in the Mississippi River.

Hunter Murphy

#9. One cannot analyse the character of European gardens without looking beyond the Mediterranean. This is because horticulture, palace life and city-building developed in the Fertile Crescent before spreading, via Crete, Greece, Egypt and Italy to the forests of Europe

Tom Turner

#10. The reason why China suffers bitterly from endless wars is because of the existence of feudal lords and kings.

Qin Shi Huang

#11. See! This our fathers did for us.

John Ruskin

#12. seen Nineveh repent a century earlier (see the book of Jonah), but the city had fallen back into wickedness. Assyria, the world power controlling the Fertile Crescent, seemed unstoppable. Its ruthless and savage warriors had already conquered Israel, the northern kingdom,

Anonymous

#13. Emeric [Pressburger] was completely cosmopolitan. That's what makes their [with Michael Powell] films so special. Neither of them thought twice about making a film about a friendship between an Englishman and a German during the Blitz. They were genius.

Thelma Schoonmaker

#14. There is absolutely no way the best team in the NCAA could even dream of beating the worst team in the NBA? You're talking about men vs. boys.

Bill Walton

#15. We are boxed in by the boundary conditions of our thinking

Albert Einstein

#16. First loves are not necessarily more foolish than others; but the chances are certainly against them. Proximity of time or place, a variety of accidental circumstances more than the essential merits of the object, often produce what is called first love.

Maria Edgeworth