quotes about Avenues

“He could build a city. Has a certain capacity. There’s a niche in his chest where a heart would fit perfectly and he thinks if he could just maneuver one into place – well then, game over.”

“I stand and listen to people speaking french in the stores and in the street. It's such a pert, crisp language, elegant as ruffling taffeta.”

“I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.”

“From my perspective, 'postmodernism' merely names an interesting set of developments in the social order that is based on the presumption that God does not matter.”

“My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing.”

“I don't have to listen to anything you have to say.”

“If no words come, you can always give him the finger.”

“I was not a jock in high school. I know, you're shocked.”

“Institutions are imperfect. Governments surely are. People are.”

Source : "Former U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. February 6, 2012.

“War is organized murder, and nothing else.”

Source : Harry Patch, Richard van Emden (2008). “The Last Fighting Tommy: The Life of Harry Patch, Last Veteran of the Trenches, 1898-2009”, p.201, A&C Black