"Elevated locations imply elevated purposes, even in American cities departing as radically as Los Angeles does from the traditional planning patterns of the Eastern Seaboard."

-- Martin Filler

#Cities Quotes #Doe Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“There are many things that, if I have to relive, maybe I will do it another way. But I would not like to look back and think what I have not been able to.”
“My father was a watchmaker and an inventor. I saw him working in the house every day. The work ethic, I got from him. He worked hard and he never complained about it.”
“However, unlike some of my friends and students, I don't think it's a laughing matter. I think it is frightening to see what outrageous stories can be told in the United States and then are accepted by many educated people and academics as facts. Movies get awards, books become best sellers, heroes are made, and people become wealthy as a result of dishonest caricatures of Iranian people and society.”
“Work is love made visible.”
“Because of my filming commitments in America, you have to sign contracts where you can't change your physical appearance.”
“It was better for me when I was joined at the court by a second woman. When I was there alone, there was too much media focus on the one woman, and the minute we got another woman, that changed.”
“The trouble with treating people as equals is that the first thing you know they may be doing the same thing to you.”
“Starlight is falling on every square mile of the earth's surface, and the best we can do at present is to gather up and concentrate the rays that strike at area 100 inches in diameter.”

Source : George Ellery Hale (1931). “Signals from the Stars”

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