#polis

Germany can generally only pay if the Corridor and Upper Silesia will be handed back to Germany from Polish possession, and if besides somewhere on the earth colonial territory will be made available to Germany. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

#back #besides #colonial #corridor #earth

St. Louis is closer to Minneapolis than Milwaukee is. ↗

— Bud Selig

#louis #milwaukee #minneapolis #than

For the metropolis presents the peculiar conditions which are revealed to us as the opportunities and the stimuli for the development of both these ways of allocating roles to men. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#both #conditions #development #men #metropolis

I mean, I'm pretty good in real life, but sometimes people seem surprised that I'm like a normal teenager and wear black nail polish and I'm just a little bit more edgy than the person I play on television. ↗

— Brittany Snow

#bit #black #edgy #good #i

The metropolis has always been the seat of the money economy. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#been #economy #metropolis #money #seat

We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons. ↗

— Alfred Newman

#flavors #furniture #lemonade #lemons #living

There are countless artists whose shoes I am not worthy to polish - whose prints would not pay the printer. The question of judgment is a puzzling one. ↗

— Maxfield Parrish

#artists #countless #i #i am #judgment

I really don't like when things are all polished and perfect - the perfect love story and the hair is perfect. ↗

— Marisa Tomei

#i #like #love #love story #perfect

Perhaps the Ci-ty dreamed of an-other, en-emy city, float-ing across the sea to invade the es-tuary . . . or of waves of darkness . . . waves of fire . . . Perhaps of being swallowed again, by the immense, the si-lent Mother Con-tinent? It's none of my business, city dreams. . . . But what if the Ci-ty were a growing neo-plasm, across the centuries, always chang-ing to meet exactly the chang-ing shape of its very worst, se-cret fears? ↗

— Thomas Pynchon

#megapolisomancy #war #business

- Wy, ludzie, mówicie o życiu i śmierci, jakby to były dwie rzeczy wzajemnie się wykluczające, jakby nie istniała rzeka, będąca również drogą, czy pieśń, będąca kolorem. - Bo nie istnieją - odparł Cień. - Prawda? - Echa znad wody powtarzały szeptem jego słowa. - Musisz pamiętać - rzekł cierpko pan Ibis - że życie i śmierć to dwie strony tej samej monety, jak orzeł i reszka na ćwierćdolarówce. - A gdybym miał ćwierćdolarówkę o dwóch orłach? - Ale nie masz. Miewają je tylko głupcy i bogowie. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#life #polish #death