Nicosia Quotes & Sayings

A man without fear, is a man I strive to be. — Geoffrey Brokos

Chalmers stopped listening and let his gaze wander over the new city. They were going to call it Nicosia. It was the first town of any size to be built free-standing on the Martian surface; all the buildings were set inside what was in effect an immense clear tent, supported by a nearly invisible frame, and placed on the rise of Tharsis, west of Noctis Labyrinthus. This location gave it a tremendous view, with a distant western horizon punctuated by the broad peak of Pavonis Mons. — Kim Stanley Robinson

One thing I know about Willie Hutch: my homie, [Big] Jerm, listens to nothing but Soul music, so he put me on to all this Soul music back in the day. — Mac Miller

Life isn't as complicated as it seems. There's a solution for every problem you have. Seek and you will find them! — Timothy Pina

You can't slow down intense people. They have to burn at their own rate. — Gerald Nicosia

Dames. Sometimes all they got to do is let it out and a few buckets later there's no way you'd ever know. — Frank Miller

It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture. — Benjamin E. Mays

I'm probably the most excited about 'Turtleneck & Chain.' — Jorma Taccone

If you give a little love, you can get a little love of your own — Someone

Kerouac's books portray a hero and narrator free and easy, confident, sure of his rebellion against the American system. In reality, Jack was torn between Catholicism, Buddhism, and his own demon-driven pursuit of kicks, between spirit and flesh, between mom's house and the Beat coffeehouse, patriotism and subversion, men and women, society and solitude, carousing and meditation, sacred and profane, secular and divine. It's a miracle he survived as long as he did. — Gerald Nicosia

The more recent effort to encourage everyone to pray in common involves so many people. — Shane Claiborne

This morning came on to me, silver wings silhouetted against the child's sunrise. — Jimi Hendrix

People on a mission are unstoppable. God bless them for it. It would be a poorer, more miserable world without them. — Gerald Nicosia

Unable to forgive his own sins, unsatisfied with just the goodness of his heart, [Kerouac] would go on poisoning his body until it rotted around him, rotted, bloated, exploded, and fell away to let the pure Jack Kerouac, the saint, escape free at last - remembered only as a ghost. — Gerald Nicosia

Epstein came up with an elaborate plan, including TV ads, and presented it to the board. The board rejected it.
"It really came down to this," McCaffrey later said. "We have a limited budget. Do we want to put that money into the technology, into the infrastructure, into hiring really great people? Or do we want to blow it on a marketing campaign that we can't measure?" Larry and Sergey told Epstein that his interim stint was over — Steven Levy

She wanted to protect us from worry, from sadness, from loneliness
things her parents had not been able to protect her from. (About Alice) — Calvin Trillin

We are in an era where censorship is creeping back in through the Patriot Act and where people are.. being intimidated not to speak about what we should be speaking about,. — Gerald Nicosia