New York: Tough, Resilient, Unbowed

There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless - Simone Beauvoir

If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting. – Peter Shaffer

Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand - Stevie Wonder

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed… a race for rent - Frank Lloyd Wright

Living in California adds ten years to a man's life. And those extra ten years I'd like to spent in New York- Harry Ruby

Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.- Johnny Carson, The Tonight Show

When you leave New York you ain’t going anywhere. – Jimmy Breslin

Open Books, Open Minds

Writing novels is a talent, but reading them is an art in its own.

 

The wise man reads both books and life itself. - Lyn Yutang

 

 

“You're the same today as you'll be in five years except for the people you meet and the books you read.”  - Charlie Jones

 

 “Wear the old coat and buy the new book.” - Austin Phelps

 

 

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.- Albert Einstein 

 

 

 

Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader. -Joseph Joubert

 

 

 

“Reading takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.” - Hazel Rochman

 

 

“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.” - Confucious