"When we deal with cities we are dealing with life at its most complex and intense. Because this is so, there is a basic esthetic limitation on what can be done with cities: a city cannot be a work of art."

“I guess what inspires me is when I am watching somebody else do something that really has an impact on me. That inspires me to want to do that in return.”

Source : Source: www.refinery29.com

“Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.”

“I think America has always been polarized. It's a racist country and it has always been.”

“The South Vietnamese were perhaps a little bit slow in doing things, they jump on, on the problem and they try to do themselves everything. Or, they try to have some short cuts with the, those people they were dealing with.”

“I've come down in the world. I've slid to a place where the ceiling is low and there isn't much room for me to move.Most of the time I'm good. I accepted my sentence and do not brood or look back. But sometimes a shift makes me remember. Routine is ruffled and a new start makes me suddenly conscious of what I've become -”

Source : Leila Aboulela (2015). “Minaret”, p.4, Bloomsbury Publishing

“Being confident in your own skin is very sexy. I think when you have fun and are yourself that is sexy too.”

Source : "How Candice Swanepoel is Spending Valentine's Day". Interview with Lauren Levinson, www.elle.com. February 8, 2013.

“As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.”

“iPod liberalism [is] where we assume that every single Iranian or Chinese who happens to have and love his iPod will also love liberal democracy.”