Jane Jacobs Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Age for me is just a number.
-
I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
-
When this space walk will be completed, then the arm will be fully operational and ready for the next activity that will be pretty much the testing, the first flight testing of the space station arm.
-
I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
-
Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we have always had an unusually high type of women represented on the jury.
-
One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
-
When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.
-
'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
-
My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
-
First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.
-
It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.
-
If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to show how that character is absolutely justified in his or her own mind, or the scene will come across as being about the author's views rather than about the character's.
-
I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'
-
We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.
-
I've done a lot of things in a business where you're lucky to stay alive, so when the time comes, I'll be happy to pass my knowledge along and help someone else.
-
If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesn't get you very far. You have to replace rational agents with some concrete notion of what it means to be irrational.
-
Caltech was a meat grinder like I could never have imagined.
-
I take every job on its merits.
-
That movie - 'Airplane!' - it influenced so many of us.
-
What too few people mention when discussing crime is the degree to which concentrated poverty, hopelessness and despair are the chambermaids of violence and incivility.
-
Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
-
Design is people.
