Epoque Times Quotes

#1. Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborhood' is harmful to city planning. It leads to attempts at warping city life into imitations of town or suburban life. Sentimentality plays with sweet intentions in place of good sense.

Jane Jacobs

#2. I was absent at the moment I took up the most space.

Albert Camus

#3. The trick to being smart is knowing when to play dumb.

V. Alexander

#4. In art, practice always comes before theory.

Pablo Picasso

#5. Make no mistake about it, the detective-story is part of the literature of escape, and not of expression.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#6. I have a fuller figure and sometimes like to hide my legs. Palazzo pants accentuate my small waist and make me feel a little like Katharine Hepburn.

Debi Mazar

#7. Are you asking if I believe in ghosts?"
"I don't know. Maybe. Yes."
"Of course not. Imagine how many there'd be."
"Yes," Kirsten said, "that's exactly it.

Emily St. John Mandel

#8. All men are created equal.

Thomas Jefferson

#9. You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.

Mitch Albom

#10. Practice radical humility when it comes to your own accomplishments, and give credit everywhere except to your ego.

Wayne Dyer

#11. Not even a little?" Hunter whispered as we climbed under my Disney princess sheets.
"It's too weird. I can't have sex on a princess' face with my mom down the hall sleeping. I just have to draw the line.

Chelsea M. Cameron

#12. When it is fairly quiet we can hear the transports behind the enemy lines rolling ceaselessly until dawn. Kat says that they do not go back but are bringing up troops - troops, munitions, and guns.

Erich Maria Remarque