"Make it nice where you are, and put the density on top."

-- Jan Gehl

#Nice Quotes #Density Quotes #Where You Are Quotes

“It seems all "protection" has to be monitored, considered, weighed and justified - I am suggesting we do that (but it's something Mary Shelley (and Gertrude Stein) also suggest). "Torch Song," the book's final section, looks at an arson committed by someone hired to protect the wilderness from fires, a catastrophic failure of protection!”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.”

Source : Larry Niven (2010). “Stars and Gods”, p.363, Macmillan
“The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.”
“You choose happiness. You don't wait for it to choose you.”
“Of course, a culture as manically and massively materialistic as ours creates materialistic behavior in its people, especially in those people who've been subjected to nothing but the destruction of imagination that this culture calls education, the destruction of autonomy it calls work, and the destruction of activity it calls entertainment.”
“I'm a real dumb-dumb in real life. I'm just book smart. But definitely not street smart. The other day I lost my jacket in a cab. And I'll forget things every time I leave the house.”

Source : "'Heroes' Masi Oka is super-geeky". Interview with Florangela Davila, www.seattletimes.com. May 14, 2007.
“If you can do something that doesn't rely on a major melody but still sounds immediate rather than being obtuse and devoid of anything to catch onto, that's great.”

Source : "Hot Chip". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 8, 2012.
“No one ever said life was fair. Just Eventful.”

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