Christopher Alexander Quotes
We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe.
Quotes to Explore
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New York City has no need to move on from 9/11 because, in a sense, it moved on days after, moments after.
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Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.
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There's a sense of being under siege in many Muslim communities. People just assume there are agents or informants in their mosque now. It's a fact of life.
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A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.
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I've given just as much of my life to that, and I practiced it with the same zeal, as I have acting. And I think that many of my skill sets from being a housewife I used for producing. Because you don't stop until it's done.
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No one becomes an expert in a new career overnight, even if you are coming from another career where you were established and experienced.
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It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
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It's really easy with makeup to look like you're trying too hard, like a clown. That's not what you want!
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If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
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The comics I made from 1990 to 1997 were largely based in vaguely urban, vaguely dystopic settings because that was my reference point for comics storytelling in general.
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America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron.
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Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.
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I don't really mind not being a part of a film - because if there is no part for me, I will never force myself upon a film. I feel like it's just a distraction. If it is not organically incorporated into the story, it just feels like a stupid appearance, like a sort of wink. I hate that.
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I trust people too much, and the other tragedy is I can't say no.
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As much as I love to dive into the action early, I think the hero's journey is important - the idea that the reader needs to experience the protagonist's everyday life before you turn that world upside down.
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All my friends from my past would know me as Scott Diggs. Taye Diggs comes from Scott-taye. When I went to college I liked it because it was so different and I have an infatuation with nicknames.
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I hope I can be as good of a father to my son as my dad was to me.
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There isn't a single American city, in my estimation, that has sufficient plans for a nuclear terrorist event.
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I rocked the cradle of love.
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Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.
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Anne Richard, a senior U.S. State Department official, testified at a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing in November 2015 that any Syrian refugee trying to get into the United States is scrutinized by officials from the National Counterterrorism Center, FBI, Department of Homeland Security, State Department and Pentagon.
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I'm an avid reader myself, and what any one reader accesses at any one time is very powerful and personal to them. Clearly you can't even begin to touch that. A novel is a singular vision, and then a myriad of readers have their own experience of that.
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Each of us carries around those growing up places, the institutions, a sort of backdrop, a stage set. So often we act out the present against the backdrop of the past, within a frame of perception that is so familiar, so safe that is is terrifying to risk changing it even when we know our perceptions are distorted, limited, constricted by that old view.
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We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe.
