Quotes About Emerald City

#1. My God, it was like the Emerald City, and as you got closer you'd pick up your pace, and you'd give your tickets and go charging inside.

Joe Flaherty

#2. If London is the Emerald City, then Los Angeles is what exists at the other end of the yellow brick road.

Monika Chiang

#3. I wonder what became of you, your Johnny
Rotten skin, no Emerald City eyes.
You'd have been a beauty if you let inferiority
steam your glasses with its candor, sans laughter.

Kristen Henderson

#4. My people have been wearing green glasses on their eyes for so long that most of them think this really is an Emerald City.

L. Frank Baum

#5. I love San Francisco so much. I call it the Emerald City and have been coming here since 1992. I have a few old friends that live here, and my aunt and uncle live in Oakland. I think it's a magical city - it's big, sexy and very 'cosmo' with a small-town feel.

Andy Cohen

#6. Lex surfed wicked, like the devil. He wasn't afraid of anything, seemed like. He grinned at West as the waves came up toward them like towers of green glass, an emerald city. We're off to see the wizard, he shouted. He whooped. His body crouched ready to fly. He shone against the sun.

Francesca Lia Block

#7. I hate to break it to you, but just because someone has pretty hair and a good skin tone and a crown instead of a pointy hat doesn't mean she's not the baddest bitch this side of the emerald city.

Danielle Paige

#8. Then, abrupt and decisive, the Emerald City rose before them. A city of insistence, of blanket declaration. It made no sense, clotting up the horizon, sprouting like a mirage on the characterless plains of central Oz. Glinda hated it from the moment she saw it. Brash upstart of a city.

Gregory Maguire

#9. Sandra to Christie on Matt: So he's been a meanie today has he. The boy's got the subtlety of a brick to the head. I do apologize.

Svetlana Chmakova

#10. I don't sort of sit in a chair and pompously feel proud of myself about all the things we might have accomplished.

Vidal Sassoon

#11. The past is the sepulchre of our dead emotions.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#12. ...to go to a dance with a guy who has all the personality of a serial killer mixed with a sponge.

J.A. Beard

#13. To every problem, there is a most simple solution.

Agatha Christie

#14. The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.

Mark Twain

#15. Girl of Emerald, no man can tame. Burn down the world, consumed by flames.

Betsy Schow

#16. I had the pleasure, as Robin said, to live a childhood dream as many young Americans and Puerto Rican children live that play youth baseball. And I feel honored and very thankful for that opportunity.

Nolan Ryan

#17. Ultimately, you have to not worry about people thinking you should have played him differently. You're the one playing the part so it has to be yours.

Ewan McGregor

#18. I will offer thanks for someone who paid a price for offering compassion to me. I will place myself beneath the cross of another who needs my compassion.

Joyce Rupp

#19. The problem of pornography is that it does not reveal too much of a woman but too little.

Pope John Paul II

#20. We are all fallen creatures and all very hard to live with.

C.S. Lewis

#21. My statements aren't incomplete, they're just in-progress. It's a debate and a discussion.

M.I.A.

#22. The truth, as much as people acted like they wanted to hear it, was sometimes too cruel and harsh.

Laura Kreitzer

#23. Exasperated, Dee began, "Molly-" "I'm not hearing you. I can't hear you. Can you hear anything, Del?" "Only some whining. I thought it was a mozzie. If it keeps going, I'm getting the fly swat and smack it a good one.

Angela Verdenius

#24. When she thinks a book is very good, what she says to herself is: yes, that's how things are. I hadn't thought of it before, but that's how things are.

Ellen Douglas