Unsleeping City Quotes

#1. Nas' Illmatic blew my mind when I first heard it. The poetry was done on such a high level that in a way, it validated our existence, our culture. He used the language of the street at the time and made it art. Art tends to be validating.

Erik Parker

#2. The true teacher of love is the heart. The heart is very, very wise. It makes mistakes from time to time, but it has a wisdom all of its own.

Frederick Lenz

#3. God is a strange and mysterious master, and I no doubt am a strange and mysterious servant, but from this day forward I am His. I am forever changed, by my own choice, and I wonder if He is too.

Kimberly Elkins

#4. Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.

Matsuo Basho

#5. What we don't recognize is that holding onto resentment is like holding onto your breath. You'll soon start to suffocate.

Deepak Chopra

#6. But there are more than five sexes and only demotic Greek seems to distinguish among them.

Lawrence Durrell

#7. By the end of the 20th century, up to 90 percent of the sharks, tuna, swordfish, marlins, groupers, turtles, whales, and many other large creatures that prospered in the Gulf for millions of years had been depleted by overfishing.

Sylvia Earle

#8. You have made an empty place within me; and I must try to fill it up with something - with something that is a little like love.

Henrik Ibsen