The Emerald City Quotes

#1. It's nice to wear a suit once in a while. It can restrict some body movement, but it makes me feel as though I'm part of society. I feel a sense of security because I've conformed to the standards of the rest of the world.

Hideo Kojima

#2. I never did anything I'm really ashamed of.

Lauryn Hill

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars.

David Antin

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

Monika Chiang

#7. 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

#8. Technology is the gene uncorked.

Jon Jones

#9. 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

#10. Think positive, Butch.

Horace Dade Ashton

#11. I have great respect for Craig Lucas. I absolutely adore his sensibility.

Julie Halston

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. While I believe in the power of positive thought, I do not believe that you or I can simply psyche ourselves into success or peace of mind.

Stephen Covey

#15. And I know what people say about not listening to insults or how you should let stuff roll off you, but it's not that easy.

Elizabeth Scott

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

Betsy Schow

#17. 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

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

J.A. Beard

#19. Write out of love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always for money.

Louis Untermeyer

#20. A lady I will be, but a man's accessory, his handbag, no thank you. I will not be someone's ornament. I will not just be someone's honey, baby, sweetheart.

Deb Caletti