Acechando English Quotes & Sayings

That's the beauty of living in New York City is that a good chunk of the media is here and willing to drink with you. — Bre Pettis

You can look at the West Bank. Cities are like prisons. They can be closed quickly by the Israeli forces, and everything stops in these cities. This is the result of Oslo. — Hassan Nasrallah

Ebenezer Howard's vision of the Garden City would seem almost feudal to us. He seems to have thought that members of the industrial working classes would stay neatly in their class, and even at the same job within their class; that agricultural workers would stay in agriculture; that businessmen (the enemy) would hardly exist as a significant force in his Utopia; and that planners could go about their good and lofty work, unhampered by rude nay-saying from the untrained. It was the very fluidity of the new nineteenth-century industrial and metropolitan society, with its profound shiftings of power, people and money, that agitated Howard so deeply — Jane Jacobs

Tom Wright has reminded us, "There is a persistent untruth which has made its way into the popular imagination in our day: that Christianity means closing off your mind, ceasing all serious thought, and living in a shallow fantasy world divorced from the solid truths of 'real life. ' " "But," he continues, "the truth is that genuine Christianity opens the mind [as Paul has been saying throughout this letter (to the Ephesians), and in its companion piece, the letter to Colossae], so that it can grasp truth at deeper and deeper levels."[11] — Malcolm Jeeves

I don't like to overdose. Call me old-fashioned. — Chelsea Handler

Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets. — Orville Redenbacher

When I photograph someone, I want to shoot the subject and get them out of my studio so I can play with the photos and do all the stuff I want. — Nikki Sixx

When all is said and done, I personally think that success is when you're consistently improving and outdoing yourself. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

I made a real specific decision when I came out of school and most artists were writing about home - if you were a woman, you were writing about being a woman - and I decided not to do that, write about what you know. That's not what I do. I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination. — Anna Deavere Smith