#scrape

New York means so much to people. If you're inclined to leave the nest, New York is where most people think they have to go, and it's been that way since the first skyscraper. ↗

— Griffin Dunne

#first #go #inclined #leave #means

There's the downtown area of Tupelo. Did you see the skyscrapers? Two stories. ↗

— Bobby Heenan

#did #downtown #see #skyscrapers #stories

If you take the approach that you want to scrape every last nickel off the table, that'll work one or two times, but after awhile, your reputation will precede you. ↗

— Tom Hicks

#approach #awhile #every #last #nickel

One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact. ↗

— David F. Houston

#any #argument #could #drive #fact

I manage to scrape together a private life, despite the press. ↗

— Michael Hutchence

#i #life #manage #press #private

Which, of course, isn't the point of writing - but it would be nice if, along with the creative satisfaction of writing and seeing my work in print, I could do more than merely scrape a living. Okay, moaning over. ↗

— Eric Brown

#be nice #could #course #creative #i

There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them. ↗

— Federico Garcia Lorca

#cover #heavens #more #nothing #poetic

The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails. ↗

— Federico Garcia Lorca

#better #cocktails #cuba #given #jazz

I'm about four skyscrapers behind. ↗

— Philip Johnson

#behind #four #i #skyscrapers

So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things together in New York City alone. In those days, if I could scrape up twenty musicians to do this it was something extraordinary. ↗

— Gunther Schuller

#city #could #days #extraordinary #find