Commissioners Of Public Works Quotes & Sayings

He knew her, he believed. He would teach her that she was not his possession, he would show her she was free, he would see her flash her wings. — A.S. Byatt

I'm six foot four - hello. And with hair, heels, and attitude ... I'm through the mother-freakin' roof! — RuPaul

Before I opened my computer in the parking lot today, I relived one of my favorite memories. It's the one with Woody and me sitting on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum after it's closed. We're watching people parade out of the museum in summer shorts and sandals. The trees to the south are planted in parallel lines. The water in the fountain shoots up with a mist that almost reaches the steps we sit on. We look at silver-haired ladies in red-and-white-print dresses. We separate the mice from the men, the tourists from the New Yorkers, the Upper East Siders from the West Siders. The hot-pretzel vendor sells us a wad of dough in knots with clumps of salt stuck on top. We make our usual remarks about the crazies and wonder what it would be like to live in a penthouse apartment on Fifth Avenue overlooking the Met. We laugh and say the same things we always say. We hold hands and keep sitting, just sitting, as the sun beings to set. It's a perfect afternoon. — Diane Keaton

Every couple of seconds out here they're honoring somebody. You've got to get dressed, go in and sit down. Invariably somebody makes a speech. — Dom DeLuise

In the U.S., we really have fallen short of road-racing facilities that have kept up with the times, unfortunately, but it's a fact. — Mario Andretti

But sometimes we have to be brave in order to dig deep and find answers. Even if we're not sure we're going to like the answers. — Linda Francis Lee

I'm like a unicorn; I'm a midlist writer who hasn't done anything else but write. But because I wasn't amazingly famous, I didn't become Stephanie Meyer, or even a huge literary name like a Jonathan Franzen or a Joshua Ferris. — Gabrielle Zevin

These are the signs of a wise man: to reprove nobody, to praise nobody, to blame nobody, nor even to speak of himself or his own merits. — Epictetus

Everyone knew that a stolen kiss was the most erotic thing in the world. — Liane Moriarty