Kreissig Homes Quotes & Sayings

LA is such a crumbling mess of a city. Basically in all my years of travelling, I haven't found another city in the western world that interest me as much as Los Angeles - which might sound like heresy, but most cities, history has already happened and the people living there are sort of living on the bones of the thousand years of history that's already happened there. Whereas LA is always reinventing itself. — Moby

It is a certainty, not just a conviction, the way believing in God is a conviction, but believing in gravity is a certainty. — Tade Thompson

There was not a single Negro slave owner who did not know dozens of Negroes just as capable of learning and efficiency as the mass of poor white people around and about, and some quite as capable as the average slaveholder. They had continually, in the course of the history of slavery, recognized such men. — W.E.B. Du Bois

I used to think the most important thing for a reporter was to be where the news is and be the first to know. Now I feel a reporter should be able to effect change. Your reporting should move people and motivate people to change the world. Maybe this is too idealistic. Young people who want to be journalists must, first, study and, second, recognize that they should never be the heroes of the story..A journalist must be curious, and must be humble.
Zhou Yijun — Judy Polumbaum

Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Shakespeare wrote his sonnets within a strict discipline, fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming in three quatrains and a couplet. Were his sonnets dull? Mozart wrote his sonatas within an equally rigid discipline - exposition, development, and recapitulation. Were they dull?. — David Ogilvy

We waste our best years in distilling the sweetest flowers of life into potions which, after all, do not immortalize, but only intoxicate. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It doesn't matter if being so alive kills a man; it's better to have the quick fever every time. — Ray Bradbury

Only suckers worry. But he can knock the worry if he takes a Scotch and soda. The hell with what the doctor says. So he rings for one and the steward comes sleepily, and as he drinks it, the speculator is not a sucker now; except for death. — Ernest Hemingway,

A job shouldn't be a mean of existence but rather, a means of sustenance — Sunday Adelaja