Downtowner Quotes

#1. I may be a lifelong 'downtowner,' but Central Park really is the most amazing and the most beautiful part of New York City.

Moby

#2. I like writing for movies. It's nice to be alone working on fiction in your room, and then it's nice to be in a room with a bunch of people working on a movie.

Daniel Handler

#3. My happiest hours are spent in school, surrounded by those I hope to benefit.

Dorothea Dix

#4. The fate of your company is in the hands of your people. Train them well.

Roy H. Williams

#5. Going to Liberia really changed a lot for me. I didn't realize what was happening on the same planet. My understanding that in the world everything is interconnected really grew - to go to one of the poorest countries from one of the richest countries in the world. It was two worlds apart.

Tim Hetherington

#6. According to a new book coming out by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, apparently when he was in high school, President Obama smoked large amounts of marijuana. You know what that means? He could be our first green president.

Jay Leno

#7. Character is a question of time. It lasts for a certain length of time, just like a glove. There are good ones that last a long time. But they don't last forever.

Bertolt Brecht

#8. There really isn't a time to pause and have a celebration. I feel so serious about the whole thing.

Story Musgrave

#9. Youthful days are longer than those of later years, as we all learn as we grow older ...

Esther Meynell

#10. Rejection only made the attachment stronger. I realized that the impossibility of connection was a driving force behind his desire.

Deirdre Madden

#11. I've got to tell you, I'm not really a tie man. I'll wear a tie if I have to: If I'm standing in the dock and it looks like I'm facing 20 years, then I'll definitely wear the tie!

Tamer Hassan

#12. If a reasoned creator set the stars in their place then we must be capable of understanding them - we must also be creatures of reason, of order!

Sarah Perry

#13. If we do nothing ... and turn our backs now, in future generations, when rank corruption masquerades as libery, it will be upon our shoulders. True patriots will then ask why we who were there to witness our nation at the crossroads did nothing.

David Liss

#14. Man can commit atrocities, or incite others to commit them, not because of a personality disorder, but because of his belief in ideas that provoke and justify atrocities.

Branimir Anzulovic

#15. I am not facing the problem of emigration. I want my music to be acknowledged here first of all, in this country: after that, we shall see - perhaps the question will than become urgent.

Alfred Schnittke

#16. I hope that I'm sexy in a different kind of way than I think that a lot of girls are right now. I think a lot of girls in the public eye, especially musical artists, are just kind of objectified a little bit and wearing super-skimpy outfits and leaving nothing to the imagination.

Emmy Rossum