Fair City/rté Player and Rté One 1

Famous quotes containing the words fair, city and/or player:

    “He neither shall be christened
    In white wine or red,
    But with fair spring water,
    With which we were christenèd.”
    —Unknown. As Joseph Was a-Walking (l. 17–20)

    Not to find one’s way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance—nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city—as one loses oneself in a forest—that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.
    Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)

    That’s free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing—the truly democratic thing about it—is that you don’t even have to be a player to lose.
    Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)