Mayor David Dinkins Quotes

#1. Calumny is like the wasp which worries you, and which it is not best to try to get rid of unless you are sure of slaying it; for otherwise it returns to the charge more furious than ever.

Nicolas Chamfort

#2. I'm confident that, were I mayor, I would do some things differently than he has. But I think there's a world of difference between him and his immediate predecessor.

David Dinkins

#3. I never want to be pretentious.

Kesha

#4. When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask.

C.S. Forester

#5. Our job here is not to build a better world ... but to do all we can to help make it brighter.

Timothy Pina

#6. How perfectly evil spirit and beauty can combine in one person, harmonically supplementing each other.

Igor Eliseev

#7. Maybe it's because I'm a designer, but when I am in a state of excitement, everything is so sharp and colorful and amazing, and I can look at blue and I see the yellow in it and the green in it, and the green-blues, the yellow-blues, so.

Tom Ford

#8. You can be anything you want to be. You can be a street sweeper, if you want. Just be the best blasted street sweeper you can be ... And, you know you can be mayor.

David Dinkins