Christopher Alexander Quotes
One begins to think with that new building block, rather than with littler pieces. And finally, the things which seem like elements dissolve, and leave a fabric of relationships behind, which is the stuff that actually repeats itself, and gives the structure to a building or a town.
Christopher Alexander
Quotes to Explore
Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense of awareness about the Civil War and the 100 years between the Civil War and the civil rights movement and my parents' then-illegal and interracial marriage.
Natasha Trethewey
If the world is an objective reality that exists independently of us, then humans themselves, even in their own eyes, are nothing more than objects, and their life stories merely a series of disconnected historical accidents, which they may wonder at, but which they themselves have nothing to do with.
Imre Kertesz
Whenever societies do well, they believe that there is something in their cultural DNA that made it happen.
Fareed Zakaria
I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.
Zach Gilford
I've met Michael Keaton, John Favreau, Marisa Tomei - they're all really amazing people and really, really professional. I've learned so much from just watching them operate on set.
Jacob Batalon
I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
Imelda Marcos
Part of my job as a food writer is to describe food. So my work on 'Top Chef,' I feel, is an extension of that. When we give a criticism to the contestant, we want to make sure we tell them why it's not working and why it would work if they did it a different way.
Padma Lakshmi
I have a daughter who I love very much, I hire women, I've worked with women, I've never had an issue with women.
Adam Carolla
At the end of the week, my husband and I do a leftovers dinner, where we have to use whatever's in the fridge. It's sort of a game.
Lake Bell
For fifteen years, I was a teacher of youth. They were years out of the fullness and bloom of my younger manhood. They were years mingled of half breathless work, of anxious self-questionings, of planning and replanning, of disillusion, or mounting wonder.
W. E. B. Du Bois
I dream for a world which is free of child labour, a world in which every child goes to school. A world in which every child gets his rights.
Kailash Satyarthi
When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical.
Barbet Schroeder
