"If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road."

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Freya Stark

#Thinking Quotes #World Quotes #Faces Quotes

“Given the irreversibility of the death penalty, the possibility of a wrongful conviction can never be overstated”

Source : "S.F's district attorney on the death penalty" by George Gascon, www.sfgate.com. April 30, 2011.
“The Grid makes the history of architecture and all previous lessons of urbanism irrelevant. It forces Manhattan's builders to develop a new system of formal values, to invent strategies for the distinction of one block from another. The Grid's two-dimensional discipline also creates undreamt-of freedom for three-dimensional anarchy. The Grid defines a new balance between control and de-control in which the city can be at the same time ordered and fluid, a metropolis of rigid chaos.”
“Talk about meeting your soul mate ... I truly feel I have been given that gift. And believe me, I wasn't some lightweight package. I'm, like, the package that didn't just come with luggage - I had trunks.”
“When a photographer or a person sees your beauty, your inner beauty, it makes you feel special like, "Wow, someone saw that within me."”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers. Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn't done too badly.”
“If the Beautiful One is not inside you, then what is that Light hidden under your cloak?”
“I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.”
“Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded.”

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