"Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs."

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Source : Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.27, Vintage

Jane Jacobs

#Cities Quotes #Streets Quotes #Sidewalk Quotes

“If a tree falls in the woods and no one's around to hear it, it still very probably makes a sound. A baseball game that's played with no one around to watch it, though that's a different proposition.”

Source : "Hell Isn't (Necessarily) Other People". Book by Carson Cistulli, 2010.
“One of the challenges in writing the script Call Me by Your Name was that I had to find something concrete for the professor to do. In the book he is some kind of classics scholar. But I thought it would be interesting to make him into something of an art historian and archaeologist whose background was the classical world. It's always difficult when someone is supposed to be an intellectual. What do they do? You can't just film them sitting around and thinking all day. And that's what the business of the statues is all about.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“A woman once rang me up and said, 'Mr. Escher, I am absolutely crazy about your work. In your print -Reptiles- you have given such a striking illustration of reincarnation.' I replied, 'Madam, if that's the way you see it, so be it.'”
“But we must not underestimate the potency of the mathematical process of abstraction. A surprising variety of things happen to have both magnitude and direction and to combine according to the parallelogram law; and many of them are not at all reminiscent of journeys.”

Source : Banesh Hoffmann (2012). “About Vectors”, p.8, Courier Corporation
“People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.”
“There's nothing I hate more than nothing. Nothing keeps me up at night. I toss and turn over nothing. Nothing could cause a great big fight.”

Source : "Song: Nothing (Album: Shooting Rubberbands At The Stars)". 1988.
“There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.”
“Rich people are bigger than their problems. Poor people are smaller than their problems.”

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