quotes about Parking Meters

“It's hard to face the problem when the problem's your face.”

“With writing, we have second chances.”

“Dealing with architecture brings me very close to the state of mind required to make pictures. One also needs an old seeing eye, appropriate reflexes which embrace sensitive observations coupled with appropriate emotional responses.”

“Intellectuals incline to be individualists, or even independents, are not team conscious and tend to regard obedience as a surrender of personality.”

“The origin of civilization is man's determination to do nothing for himself which he can get done for him.”

“Nightly you retrace your steps again to return to the scene of the crime. It's uncanny how you hover in the air of the wreckage that you left behind.”

Source : Song: True Believer, 2008

“We are still learning how exactly the Earth reacts to increased CO2 and other greenhouse gases. We know it leads to warming seas which are melting the North and the South Poles, rising and starting to swallow entire coastal areas in the US and elsewhere, as the New York Times article documents.”

Source : "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, truthout.org. September 17, 2016.

“The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose . to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.”

“The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.”

“I've nothing against kids reading anything they please, but I do have a problem with pink books for girls and black books for boys.”