"I would have loved to have met some former spies, but they don't readily advertise themselves unless they're not living in Moscow, and even then. I'm sure I've met some without realizing it."

-- Jeremy Northam

#Spy Quotes #Moscow Quotes #Realizing Quotes

“If you are a good editor, your relationship with every writer is different.”
“Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.”

Source : "Zaha Hadid's Bach salon" by Charlotte Higgins, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2009.
“Black is modest and arrogant at the same time. ...”
“Companies are missing out on phenomenal skills and capabilities of experienced older job hunters: wealth of knowledge, expertise, seasoning, maturity. Companies need to be reminded of that.”
“To say that I met Nicholas Brisbane over my husband's dead body is not entirely accurate. Edward, it should be noted, was still twitching upon the floor.”

Source : Deanna Raybourn (2015). “Silent in the Grave”, p.10, MIRA
“I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off for parts unknown unless strictly confined to quarters.”
“If you are predisposed to be patient, disciplined and psychologically appreciate the idea of buying bargains, then you're likely to be good at it. If you have a need for action, if you want to be involved in the new and exciting technological breakthroughs of our time, that's great, but you're not a value investor, and you shouldn't be one.”
“Every place is given its character by certain patterns of events that keep on happening there.... These patterns of events are locked in with certain geometric patterns in the space. Indeed, each building and each town is ultimately made out of these patterns in the space, and out of nothing else; they [patterns in the space] are the atoms and molecules from which a building or a town is made.”

Source : "The Timeless Way of Building". Book by Christopher Alexander, 1979.

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