Skyscraping Quotes

#1. New York is Babylon : Brooklyn is the truly Holy City.
New York is the city of envy, office work, and hustle;
Brooklyn is the region of homes and happiness ... .
There is no hope for New Yorkers, for their glory in
Their skyscraping sins; but in Brooklyn there is the wisdom of the lowly.

Christopher Morley

#2. I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#3. America, I am a strong believer that how we treat each other matters.

Emanuel Cleaver

#4. Palaeontology and archaeology and other skulduggery were not subjects that interested wizards. Things are buried for a reason, they considered. There's no point in wondering what it was. Don't go digging things up in case they won't let you bury them again.

Terry Pratchett

#5. (One sign of possible overtraining is a lack of a pump during your workouts.)

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#6. The West should be tougher on Pakistan. It is trying to play both ends against the middle - to look like the friend of the revolutionaries on the one hand and a friend of the West in the fight against terrorism. It can't be both things.

Salman Rushdie

#7. We do not invest in victims, we invest in survivors.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

#8. A metallurgist is someone who can look at a platinum blonde and tell whether she's virgin material or a common ore.

Brian Johnson