Ties Quotes - Page 22

The Fire Department has traditionally considered architecture a priority only when it’s burning down.

So when I appear as a kind of shamanistic figure, or allude to it, I do it to stress my belief in other priorities and the need to come up with a completely different plan for working with substances. For instance, in places like universities, where everyone speaks so rationally, it is necessary for a kind of enchanter to appear.

At night, what you see is a city, because all you see is lights. By day, it doesn't look like a city at all. The trees out-number the houses. And that's completely typical of Seattle. You can't quite tell: is it a city, is it a suburb, is the forest growing back?

Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message I give you.

We're crazy about this city. Los Angeles? That's just a big parking lot where you buy a hamburger for the trip to San Francisco.

You must also give mental and physical fitness priority.

In a city where you walk around, it's impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents will happen, you'll overhear things, bump into people, and take unexpected turns.

In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries.

I love New York City. Everyone is busy with their own lives - and no one is interested in some Hollywood celebrity walking past in downtown Manhattan.

Three more saves and he ties John the Baptist.

There's no sense talking about priorities. Priorities reveal themselves. We're all transparent against the face of the clock.

Over the next few days we want cities, towns and villages across the UK to send a message to Scotland: stay with us.

It always seemed to me that men wore their beards, like they wear their neckties, for show.

-You are on the verge of being truly mad. -No, not at all. Look at me. I can tie my shoelaces. See?

Trying to keep a society together, trying to keep the older and the younger people together, trying to keep those who live in rural areas together with those who live in cities is one of the most important and most noble tasks of politicians these days.

Nightside, cities glistened in chains, and a spray of tinkertoy habitats girdled the planet. Gossamer starbridges reached from the equator towards orbit.

You put your time where your priority is.

What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There was never any jealousy.

Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.

Though one can dine in New York, one could not dwell there.

My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.

Seasons change. So do cities. People come into your life and people go, but it's comforting to know: the ones you love are always in your heart. And if you're very lucky, a plane ride away.

No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.

Don't pretend that you can just be oblivious to politics. You can't. What you never do is break your personal code. Have a code and keep it. You should never compromise what your priorities are.

The blues comes right back to a person's feelings, to his daily activities in life. But rich people don't know nothing about the blues, please believe me.