--- title: "85 Empire state Quotes by 70 authors" description: "Browse 85 Empire state quotes by 70 authors. Discover the best Empire state sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d6c/allen-ginsberg-1110_empire-state_empire-state-s-orange-shoulders-lifted-a_2022513.jpg" --- > [“Empire State's orange shoulders lifted above the Hell”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allen-ginsberg/empire-state-s-orange-shoulders-lifted-above-the-hell/) [Allen Ginsberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allen-ginsberg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d6c/allen-ginsberg-1110_empire-state_empire-state-s-orange-shoulders-lifted-a_2022513.jpg) > [Am so high like the empire state](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fakir/am-so-high-like-the-empire-state/) Fakir [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f1/fakir-237185_empire_am-so-high-like-the-empire-state-2772411_2772411.jpg) > [It's time for the people of the Empire State to strike back.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-cuomo/it-s-time-for-the-people-of-the-empire-state-to-strike-back/) [Andrew Cuomo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-cuomo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/28b/andrew-cuomo-6936_empire_it-s-time-for-the-people-of-the-empire-s_3136311.png) > [I see a New York that is once again the empire state.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-paladino/i-see-a-new-york-that-is-once-again-the-empire-state/) [Carl Paladino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-paladino/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4dd/carl-paladino-18182_empire_i-see-a-new-york-that-is-once-again-the_271661.png) > [I've been to the Empire State Building with four friends, and it was very beautiful at that time around midnight.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/takeru-kobayashi/i-ve-been-to-the-empire-state-building-with-four-friends-and-it-was/) [Takeru Kobayashi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/takeru-kobayashi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e30/takeru-kobayashi-26127_around_i-ve-been-to-the-empire-state-building-w_2236562.png) > [“man is the only animal that is clever enough to build the empire state building and stupid enough to jump off.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rock-hudson/man-is-the-only-animal-that-is-clever-enough-to-build-the-empire/) [Rock Hudson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rock-hudson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e8/rock-hudson-52023_empire-state_man-is-the-only-animal-that-is-clever-en_1116392.jpg) > [“Did you know that if you drop a penny off the top of the Empire State Building, you could kill someone?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/did-you-know-that-if-you-drop-a-penny-off-the-top-of-the-empire-state/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/957/anonymous-1_empire-state_did-you-know-that-if-you-drop-a-penny-of_1488913.jpg) > [Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-rickles/eddie-fisher-married-to-elizabeth-taylor-is-like-me-trying-to-wash/) [Don Rickles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-rickles/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c0b/don-rickles-1705_building_eddie-fisher-married-to-elizabeth-taylor_553730.png) > [When I'm in New York I look at the Empire State Building and feel as though it belongs to me ... or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fay-wray/when-i-m-in-new-york-i-look-at-the-empire-state-building-and-feel-as/) [Fay Wray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fay-wray/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/121/fay-wray-18005_building_when-i-m-in-new-york-i-look-at-the-empir_3037440.png) > [We should be growing carrots up the side of the Empire State Building or Big Ben.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-brown/we-should-be-growing-carrots-up-the-side-of-the-empire-state-building/) [Ian Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-brown/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c8/ian-brown-3967_big_we-should-be-growing-carrots-up-the-side_2884716.png) > [The time has come to return integrity, performance and dignity to New York and make it the Empire State once again.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-cuomo/the-time-has-come-to-return-integrity-performance-and-dignity-to-new/) [Andrew Cuomo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-cuomo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/440/andrew-cuomo-6936_dignity_the-time-has-come-to-return-integrity-pe_1434336.png) > [I knew a girl so ugly, I took her to the top of the Empire State building and planes started to attack…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rodney-dangerfield/i-knew-a-girl-so-ugly-i-took-her-to-the-top-of-the-empire-state/) [Rodney Dangerfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rodney-dangerfield/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad3/rodney-dangerfield-755_building_i-knew-a-girl-so-ugly-i-took-her-to-the_567253.jpg) > [If architecture is the history of all phallic emotion, the Empire State Building is utter catharsis, and we are sitting in its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-levitch/if-architecture-is-the-history-of-all-phallic-emotion-the-empire/) [Timothy Levitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-levitch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d05/timothy-levitch-59846_architecture_if-architecture-is-the-history-of-all-ph_2165790.jpg) > [“The Empire State, a lonely dinosaur, rose sadly at midtown, highest tower, tallest mountain, longest road, King Kong's eyrie, meant to moor…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vincent-scully/the-empire-state-a-lonely-dinosaur-rose-sadly-at-midtown-highest/) Vincent Scully [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b3f/vincent-scully-285737_empire-state_the-empire-state-a-lonely-dinosaur-rose_2157428.jpg) > [“I think Philip could spend an afternoon throwing puppies from the top of the Empire State and only stop when his arm…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-connolly/i-think-philip-could-spend-an-afternoon-throwing-puppies-from-the-top/) [John Connolly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-connolly/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/642/john-connolly-1479_animal_i-think-philip-could-spend-an-afternoon_2829653.jpg) > [“And an extra loud shout-out to the Empire State Garrison, who came to Manhattan on a hot summer day to shoot Del…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-schreiber/and-an-extra-loud-shout-out-to-the-empire-state-garrison-who-came-to/) [Joe Schreiber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-schreiber/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d6c/joe-schreiber-25292_empire-state_and-an-extra-loud-shout-out-to-the-empir_2907924.jpg) > [“You can build the Empire State Building. Train the Prussian army. Elevate the hierarchy of a totalitarian state higher than the throne…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandr-solzhenitsyn/you-can-build-the-empire-state-building-train-the-prussian-army/) [Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandr-solzhenitsyn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8dc/aleksandr-solzhenitsyn-671_achievement_you-can-build-the-empire-state-building_203400.jpg) > [One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandr-solzhenitsyn/one-can-build-the-empire-state-building-discipline-the-prussian-army/) [Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandr-solzhenitsyn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9af/aleksandr-solzhenitsyn-671_army_one-can-build-the-empire-state-building_1174068.jpg) > [“...you could just tell that if Rosie couldn't romance her way to the top of the Empire State Building, she was prepared…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amor-towles/you-could-just-tell-that-if-rosie-couldn-t-romance-her-way-to-the-top/) [Amor Towles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amor-towles/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/06c/amor-towles-1249_empire-state_you-could-just-tell-that-if-rosie-couldn_1171167.png) > [“The little planes no longer circled the Empire State Building, but it was still a view that practically conjugated hope: I have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amor-towles/the-little-planes-no-longer-circled-the-empire-state-building-but-it/) [Amor Towles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amor-towles/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ca1/amor-towles-1249_empire-state_the-little-planes-no-longer-circled-the_3107340.png) > [“ See what happens when you abuse steroids? Dudes should have read the warning label. First the penis shrinks, then the sentence…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sherrilyn-kenyon/see-what-happens-when-you-abuse-steroids-dudes-should-have-read-the/) [Sherrilyn Kenyon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sherrilyn-kenyon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ca9/sherrilyn-kenyon-25_empire-state_see-what-happens-when-you-abuse-steroids_590341.jpg) > [I've worked with a lot of gay and lesbian organizations. I sit on the board of the Empire State Pride Agenda. I've…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/billy-porter/i-ve-worked-with-a-lot-of-gay-and-lesbian-organizations-i-sit-on-the/) [Billy Porter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/billy-porter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/644/billy-porter-14763_agenda_i-ve-worked-with-a-lot-of-gay-and-lesbia_846723.jpg) > [“Abbot Miron had sat sewing a patch on his trousers as we talked. He raised his intense luminous eyes to Gaston and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-wurmbrand/abbot-miron-had-sat-sewing-a-patch-on-his-trousers-as-we-talked-he/) [Richard Wurmbrand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-wurmbrand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d62/richard-wurmbrand-8382_empire-state_abbot-miron-had-sat-sewing-a-patch-on-hi_2866448.png) > [i get a little romantic about the old Empire State. Just looking at it makes me want to play some Frank Sinatra…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maureen-johnson/i-get-a-little-romantic-about-the-old-empire-state-just-looking-at-it/) [Maureen Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maureen-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0d5/maureen-johnson-1282_building_i-get-a-little-romantic-about-the-old-em_2054916.jpg) > [“Everyone knows what a penny dropped form the top of the Empire State Building can do. So if it started to rain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-mcdonell/everyone-knows-what-a-penny-dropped-form-the-top-of-the-empire-state/) [Nick McDonell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-mcdonell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/667/nick-mcdonell-28508_empire-state_everyone-knows-what-a-penny-dropped-form_434145.jpg) > [Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite. The only true cinema verite would be what Andy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/crispin-glover/realism-is-always-subjective-in-film-there-s-no-such-thing-as-cinema/) [Crispin Glover](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/crispin-glover/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/175/crispin-glover-24774_angle_realism-is-always-subjective-in-film-the_1530371.png) > [“If you are going to build the Empire State Building, the first thing you need to do is dig a deep hole…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/if-you-are-going-to-build-the-empire-state-building-the-first-thing/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6df/anonymous-1_empire-state_if-you-are-going-to-build-the-empire-sta_3138922.jpg) > [“From the book he carefully tears out several maps, and in this light Afghanistan’s mountains and hills and restlessly branching corridors of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nadeem-aslam/from-the-book-he-carefully-tears-out-several-maps-and-in-this-light/) [Nadeem Aslam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nadeem-aslam/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e27/nadeem-aslam-10821_afghanistan_from-the-book-he-carefully-tears-out-sev_1289459.png) > [“The taxi stand was only an open shelter, so I was freezing as I looked toward midtown. I could see the RCA…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lou-antonelli/the-taxi-stand-was-only-an-open-shelter-so-i-was-freezing-as-i-looked/) Lou Antonelli [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/094/lou-antonelli-110152_alternate-history_the-taxi-stand-was-only-an-open-shelter_708274.jpg) > [“It seemed to me that there was nothing new to be discovered ever again. Our society was utterly, ruinously derivative...we were the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gillian-flynn/it-seemed-to-me-that-there-was-nothing-new-to-be-discovered-ever/) [Gillian Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gillian-flynn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2de/gillian-flynn-316_empire-state_it-seemed-to-me-that-there-was-nothing-n_1085979.jpg) > [The men began to trade tales of atrocities, first stories they had heard, then those they'd witnessed, and finally the things that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/the-men-began-to-trade-tales-of-atrocities-first-stories-they-had/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1a1/toni-morrison-271_atrocities_the-men-began-to-trade-tales-of-atrociti_2311786.jpg) > [“For several years, I had been bored. Not a whining, restless child's boredom (although I was not above that) but a dense,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gillian-flynn/for-several-years-i-had-been-bored-not-a-whining-restless-child-s/) [Gillian Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gillian-flynn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3cf/gillian-flynn-316_bored_for-several-years-i-had-been-bored-not-a_1415477.jpg) > [“But it turned out that this “unlearning” was not as complete as the scientists first thought. When they severed the neural connections…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-cain/but-it-turned-out-that-this-unlearning-was-not-as-complete-as-the/) [Susan Cain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-cain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/999/susan-cain-647_empire-state_but-it-turned-out-that-this-unlearning-w_3041953.jpg) > [“I have something to show you." He sank down next to me and handed me a sketchbook. I opened it. And saw…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/melissa-jensen/i-have-something-to-show-you-he-sank-down-next-to-me-and-handed-me-a/) [Melissa Jensen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/melissa-jensen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fb6/melissa-jensen-1612_conquer-your-fears_i-have-something-to-show-you-he-sank-dow_2695553.jpg) > [“In The Enemy Within, Bobby Kennedy asserted that after the trial, Joe Louis, who was out of work and deeply in debt…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-brandt/in-the-enemy-within-bobby-kennedy-asserted-that-after-the-trial-joe/) [Charles Brandt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-brandt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b0/charles-brandt-2101_bobby-kennedy_in-the-enemy-within-bobby-kennedy-assert_2967720.jpg) > [“From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building. And just as it had been tradition of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/f-scott-fitzgerald/from-the-ruins-lonely-and-inexplicable-as-the-sphinx-rose-the-empire/) [F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/f-scott-fitzgerald/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/600/f-scott-fitzgerald-72_beautiful-city_from-the-ruins-lonely-and-inexplicable-a_2501137.jpg) > [Going to the roof of the Empire State Building is pretty amazing for kids.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-scott/going-to-the-roof-of-the-empire-state-building-is-pretty-amazing-for/) [Adam Scott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-scott/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/551/adam-scott-4435_amazing_going-to-the-roof-of-the-empire-state-bu_2934544.jpg) > [New York is nearly a grave. The Empire State Building is its gravestone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-tevis/new-york-is-nearly-a-grave-the-empire-state-building-is-its-gravestone/) [Walter Tevis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-tevis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a2c/walter-tevis-34092_building_new-york-is-nearly-a-grave-the-empire-st_2840019.jpg) > [From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/f-scott-fitzgerald/from-the-ruins-lonely-and-inexplicable-as-the-sphinx-rose-the-empire-2/) [F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/f-scott-fitzgerald/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e2b/f-scott-fitzgerald-72_building_from-the-ruins-lonely-and-inexplicable-a_2994056.jpg) > [Ya know, he jumped off the Empire State Building this one time and he only sprained his ankle.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-brasky/ya-know-he-jumped-off-the-empire-state-building-this-one-time-and-he/) [Bill Brasky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-brasky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e7b/bill-brasky-16088_empire-state_ya-know-he-jumped-off-the-empire-state-b_1684218.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/empire-state/#itemlist", "name": "Empire state Quotes", "numberOfItems": 40, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Empire State's orange shoulders lifted above the Hell”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", 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You sneak a flask up there and raise a toast to the whole city of New York.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Maureen Johnson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maureen-johnson/i-get-a-little-romantic-about-the-old-empire-state-just-looking-at-it/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0d5/maureen-johnson-1282_building_i-get-a-little-romantic-about-the-old-em_2054916.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0d5/maureen-johnson-1282_building_i-get-a-little-romantic-about-the-old-em_2054916.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0d5/maureen-johnson-1282_building_i-get-a-little-romantic-about-the-old-em_2054916.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“i get a little romantic about the old Empire State. 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If it started raining money.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Nick McDonell" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-mcdonell/everyone-knows-what-a-penny-dropped-form-the-top-of-the-empire-state/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/667/nick-mcdonell-28508_empire-state_everyone-knows-what-a-penny-dropped-form_434145.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/667/nick-mcdonell-28508_empire-state_everyone-knows-what-a-penny-dropped-form_434145.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/667/nick-mcdonell-28508_empire-state_everyone-knows-what-a-penny-dropped-form_434145.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Everyone knows what a penny dropped form the top of the Empire State Building can do. 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The only true cinema verite would be what Andy Warhol did with his film about the Empire State Building - eight hours or so from one angle, and even then it's not really cinema verite, because you aren't actually there.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Crispin Glover" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/crispin-glover/realism-is-always-subjective-in-film-there-s-no-such-thing-as-cinema/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/175/crispin-glover-24774_angle_realism-is-always-subjective-in-film-the_1530371.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/175/crispin-glover-24774_angle_realism-is-always-subjective-in-film-the_1530371.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/175/crispin-glover-24774_angle_realism-is-always-subjective-in-film-the_1530371.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite. 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Most people, in their drive to get rich, are trying to build an Empire State Building on a 6-inch slab.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anonymous" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/if-you-are-going-to-build-the-empire-state-building-the-first-thing/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6df/anonymous-1_empire-state_if-you-are-going-to-build-the-empire-sta_3138922.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6df/anonymous-1_empire-state_if-you-are-going-to-build-the-empire-sta_3138922.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6df/anonymous-1_empire-state_if-you-are-going-to-build-the-empire-sta_3138922.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“If you are going to build the Empire State Building, the first thing you need to do is dig a deep hole and…” — Anonymous", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 28, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“From the book he carefully tears out several maps, and in this light Afghanistan’s mountains and hills and restlessly branching corridors of rock appear as though the pages are crumpled up, and there is a momentary wish in him to smooth them down. Laser-guided bombs are falling onto the pages in his hands, missiles summoned from the Arabian Sea, from American warships that are as long as the Empire State Building is tall.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Nadeem Aslam" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nadeem-aslam/from-the-book-he-carefully-tears-out-several-maps-and-in-this-light/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e27/nadeem-aslam-10821_afghanistan_from-the-book-he-carefully-tears-out-sev_1289459.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e27/nadeem-aslam-10821_afghanistan_from-the-book-he-carefully-tears-out-sev_1289459.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e27/nadeem-aslam-10821_afghanistan_from-the-book-he-carefully-tears-out-sev_1289459.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“From the book he carefully tears out several maps, and in this light Afghanistan’s mountains and hills and…” — Nadeem Aslam", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 29, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The taxi stand was only an open shelter, so I was freezing as I looked toward midtown. I could see the RCA building with its bright red logo at Rockefeller Center, and farther south, the Empire State Building with its illuminated set-backs. At the tip of Manhattan, the twin towers of the World Trade Center -- which were over 1,100 feet tall themselves -- flanked the mile-high Space Trylon. It was clear as well as cold, and as I looked toward Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpiece, it seemed to be poijnting to the stars. This, of course, was the idea, since it embodied the joint American-Soviet space exploration program that settled the Moon in 1955, and, twenty years later, Mars.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Lou Antonelli" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lou-antonelli/the-taxi-stand-was-only-an-open-shelter-so-i-was-freezing-as-i-looked/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/094/lou-antonelli-110152_alternate-history_the-taxi-stand-was-only-an-open-shelter_708274.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/094/lou-antonelli-110152_alternate-history_the-taxi-stand-was-only-an-open-shelter_708274.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/094/lou-antonelli-110152_alternate-history_the-taxi-stand-was-only-an-open-shelter_708274.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The taxi stand was only an open shelter, so I was freezing as I looked toward midtown. 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The image is crispier, the view is keener, the camera angle and the soundtrack manipulate my emotions in a way reality can't. I don't know that we are actually human at this point, those of us who are like most of us, who grew up with TV and movies and now the Internet. If we are betrayed, we know the words to say; when a loved one dies, we know the words to say. If we want to play the stud or the smart-ass or the fool, we know the words to say. We are all working from the same dog-eared script.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Gillian Flynn" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gillian-flynn/it-seemed-to-me-that-there-was-nothing-new-to-be-discovered-ever/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2de/gillian-flynn-316_empire-state_it-seemed-to-me-that-there-was-nothing-n_1085979.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2de/gillian-flynn-316_empire-state_it-seemed-to-me-that-there-was-nothing-n_1085979.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2de/gillian-flynn-316_empire-state_it-seemed-to-me-that-there-was-nothing-n_1085979.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It seemed to me that there was nothing new to be discovered ever again. 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Not a whining, restless child's boredom (although I was not above that) but a dense, blanketing malaise. It seemed to me that there was nothing new to be discovered ever again. Our society was utterly, ruinously derivative (although the word derivative as a criticism is itself derivative). We were the first human beings who would never see anything for the first time. We stare at the wonders of the world, dull-eyed, underwhelmed. Mona Lisa , the Pyramids, the Empire State Building. Jungle animals on attack, ancient icebergs collapsing, volcanoes erupting. I can't recall a single amazing thing I have seen firsthand that I didn't immediately reference to a movie or TV show. A fucking commercial. You know the awful singsong of the blasé: Seeeen it . I've literally seen it all, and the worst thing, the thing that makes me want to blow my brains out, is: The secondhand experience is always better. The image is crisper, the view is keener, the camera angle and the soundtrack manipulate my emotions in a way reality can't anymore. I don't know that we are actually human at this point, those of us who are like most of us, who grew up with TV and movies and now the Internet. If we are betrayed, we know the words to say; when a loved one dies, we know the words to say. If we want to play the stud or the smart-ass or the fool, we know the words to say. We are all working from the same dog-eared script. It's a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters. And if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soul mate, because we don't have genuine souls. It had gotten to the point where it seemed like nothing matters, because I'm not a real person and neither is anyone else. I would have done anything to feel real again.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Gillian Flynn" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gillian-flynn/for-several-years-i-had-been-bored-not-a-whining-restless-child-s/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3cf/gillian-flynn-316_bored_for-several-years-i-had-been-bored-not-a_1415477.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3cf/gillian-flynn-316_bored_for-several-years-i-had-been-bored-not-a_1415477.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3cf/gillian-flynn-316_bored_for-several-years-i-had-been-bored-not-a_1415477.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“For several years, I had been bored. 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Repeated trips to the top of the Empire State Building seem to extinguish the fear, but it may come roaring back during times of stress—when the cortex has other things to do than soothe an excitable amygdala.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Susan Cain" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-cain/but-it-turned-out-that-this-unlearning-was-not-as-complete-as-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/999/susan-cain-647_empire-state_but-it-turned-out-that-this-unlearning-w_3041953.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/999/susan-cain-647_empire-state_but-it-turned-out-that-this-unlearning-w_3041953.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/999/susan-cain-647_empire-state_but-it-turned-out-that-this-unlearning-w_3041953.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“But it turned out that this “unlearning” was not as complete as the scientists first thought. When they…” — Susan Cain", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 34, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I have something to show you.\" He sank down next to me and handed me a sketchbook. I opened it. And saw the mermaid. She was drawn in colored ink, exquisitely detailed; each scale had a little picture in it: a pyramid, a rocket, a peacock, a lamp. Her torso was patterened red, like a tattoo, like coral. She had a thin strand of seaweed around her neck, with a starfish holding on to the center. Her hair was a tumble of loose black curls. She had my face. I turned the page.And another and another. There she was fighting a creature that was half human, half octopus. Exploring a cave. Riding a shark. Laughing and petting a stingray that rested on her lap. \"I'm calling her Cora Lia for the moment,\" Alex told me. \"I thought about Corella, but it sounded like cheap dishware.\" \"She's...amazing.\" \"She's fierce. Fighting the Evil Sea-Dragon King and his minions.\" I traced the red tattoo on her chest. \"This is beautiful.\" Alex reached into my sweater, pulled the loose neck of the T-shirt away from my shoulder. I didn't stop him. \"It looks like coral to me.\" He touched me, then,the pad of his thumb tracing the outline of the scar. It felt strange, partly because of the difference in the tissue, but more because in the last few years, the only hands that had touched me there were mine. I set the book aside carefully. \"Guess I don't see what you do.\" \"That's too bad, because I see you perfectly.\" I curved myself into him. \"Maybe you're exactly what I need.\" \"Like there's any doubt?\" He buried his face in my neck.I didn't stop him. \"So.\" \"So?\" \"We'll kill a few hours, watch the sunrise, have pancakes, and you'll drive home.\" \" What? \" I felt him smile against my skin. \"I got you swimming with sharks. Next on the Conquer Your Fears list is driving a stick shift.Right?\" \"One thing at a time,\" I said. Then, \"Oh. Do that again.\" In another story, the intrepid heroine would have gone running out and splashed in the surf, hypothermia be damned. She would have driven the Mustang home, booked a haircut, taken up stand-up comedy, and danced on the observation deck of the Empire State Building. But this was me, and I was moving at my own pace. Truth: My story started a hundred years ago. 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