Yorkville Quotes

#1. We lived in Yorkville until 1940, at which point we moved into the St. Albans neighborhood of Queens.

Bob Cousy

#2. We lived in Yorkville, which is located on the East End of Manhattan. It's further east than Hell's Kitchen, and back then it was the kind of place where the roaches and cockroaches were big enough to carry away small children.

Bob Cousy

#3. In the mid-'60s, I quit school and wandered across the country, hitchhiked back and forth a few times, and ended up in hippie times, in the street in Toronto, in Yorkville.

Michael Hogan

#4. One of the huge advantages of shooting in the winter is that locations that wouldn't have been available to us suddenly were, like Yorkville ... It's just specific streets and specific angles. I think that's what's always kind of shocking about some cities: they are really about intersections.

Atom Egoyan

#5. Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.

Bob Cousy

#6. Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.

Aldous Huxley

#7. What he knew, he knew from books, and books lied, they made things prettier.

Hanya Yanagihara

#8. When you accept and appreciate yourself you can handle any situation with class, dignity and respect.

Miranda Kerr

#9. [ ... ] the responsibility for their wellbeing and for the fundamental meaning they give to their own life must, in adulthood, be theirs. To accept the burden that someone 'can't live without you' is unrealistic. It infantilises that person and overburdens you. p.226

Stephanie Dowrick

#10. I can see that you're down in the dumps, Unc. Shall we stop working and call Toni?"
"And then what?"
"I don't know. But if it so happens that I'm more of your type ... Would you like me to give you a blow job? That really does the trick when you're feeling depressed.

Juan Marse

#11. Your parents leave you too soon and your kids and spouse come along late, but your siblings know you when you are in your most inchoate form.

Jeffrey Kluger

#12. Morning exercise, walking in the free, invigorating air of heaven, or cultivating flowers, small fruits, and vegetables, is the surest safeguard against colds, coughs, congestion of the brain, inflammation of the liver, the kidneys, and the lungs, and a hundred other diseases.

Ellen G. White

#13. The Kingdom of God is an earthly experience which manifests in an unearthly manner.

Abhijit Naskar

#14. The oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the human voice.

Richard Wagner

#15. With global warming, I'm never going to time-travel. It's probably going to cause some major emission problems.

Moon Bloodgood

#16. Know that I loved you more than the stars have power to kiss the night sky.

Wade Kelly