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«A city has values as well as slums, excitement as well as conflict a personality that has not yet been obliterated by its highways and gas stations.»
Author: Charles Abrams
| About:
Cities
| Keywords:
excitement, gas, gas station, highways, obliterate, obliterated, obliterates, slum, slumming, slums, stations
«It puzzles me how they know what corners are good for filling stations. Just how did they know gas and oil was under there?»
Author: Dizzy Dean
| Keywords:
corners, filling, filling station, gas, gas station, oil, puzzles, stations
«On busy days in our telemarketing centers, I bring in buffet lunches, so people don't have to get up from their stations to go to lunch. But, I haven't yet gotten them to accept the catheter idea I proposed.»
«When buying a used car, punch the buttons on the radio. If all the stations are rock and roll, there's a good chance the transmission is shot.»
Author: Larry Lujack
| Keywords:
buttons, buying, On the Radio, punch, punches, punching, radio, rock and, rock and roll, roll, stations, transmission
«A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send checks to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas.»
Author: Northrop Frye
| Keywords:
category, Category As, checks, dislikes, distinguish, ghosts, hamlet, Hamlets, in the same category, operas, pentameter, pentameters, postulate, postulates, quarrels, soap, soap opera, soap operas, stations
«Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeles's land area is now monopolized by the automobile and its needs-by freeways, highways, garages, gas stations, car lots, parking lots. And all of it is blanketed with anonymity and foul air.»
Author: Alistair Cooke
| About:
Cities
| Keywords:
Angeles, anonymity, area, automobile, blanketed, foul, freeway, freeways, garages, gas station, highways, land area, monopolize, monopolized, parking, parking lot, quarter, stations
«If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.»
Author: Edward R. Murrow
(Journalist)
| Keywords:
considerable, decline, grounds, in color, profitable, quiz, Second Coming, stations, The Second Coming
«It took hundreds of years for these woods to grow, and they leveled it in a week. It's gone. After they build new houses here, they'll have to widen the roads and put up gas stations, and pretty soon the whole area will just be a big strip. Eventually there won't be a nice spot left anywhere. I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world.»
Author: Bill Watterson
(Author)
| Keywords:
anywhere, area, eventually, gas, gases, gas station, houses, hundreds, inherit, inheriting, inherits, leveled, Nice, on the spot, put up, refuse, roads, spot, stations, strip, The New Year, The Station, took, week, widen, widened, widens, woods
«In the dime stores and bus stations, People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, Draw conclusions on the wall»
Author: Bob Dylan
| About:
Books,
Quotations
| Keywords:
bus, conclusions, dime, quotations, situations, stations, stores, talk of, The Wall
«Automobiles are free of egotism, passion, prejudice and stupid ideas about where to have dinner. They are, literally, selfless. A world designed for automobiles instead of people would have wider streets, larger dining rooms, fewer stairs to climb and no smelly, dangerous subway stations.»
Author: P. J. O'Rourke
(Humorist, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
automobiles, dining, dining room, egotism, free of, literally, rooms, smelly, stairs, stations, wider
