#ace

I was quite excited, but I was sure I wouldn't win the race. I am a realist. ↗

— Jean Alesi

#excited #i #i am #quite #race

I have been watching and drawing the surface of Mars. It is wonderfully full of detail. There is certainly no question about there being mountains and large greatly elevated plateaus. ↗

— Edward E. Barnard

#been #being #certainly #detail #drawing

In an organic environment, every place is unique, and the different places also cooperate, with no parts left over, to create a global whole - a whole which can be identified by everyone who is part of it. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#cooperate #create #different #different places #environment

It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where you feel alive, except by following this way. And, as you will see, this way will lead anyone who looks for it to buildings which are themselves as ancient in their form, as the trees and hills, and as our faces are. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#ancient #anyone #beautiful #beautiful places #buildings

This is a fundamental view of the world. It says that when you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and more whole; and the thing which you make takes its place in the web of nature, as you make it. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#becomes #build #cannot #coherent #fundamental

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#crisis #darkest #hell #maintain #moral

Mr. Speaker, our Nation must no longer be complacent about underage drinking and its alarming consequences. We must bring this national public health crisis out of the shadow and into the bright light of a national priority. ↗

— Lucille Roybal-Allard

#alarming #bright #bring #complacent #consequences

The production team's first meeting took place at my house. I had ideas and a color scheme in mind, how I wanted the movie to look, because that has to be a real collaboration. ↗

— Debbie Allen

#collaboration #color #first #had #house

I'll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country. I will pray you find a way to be useful. I'll pray, and then I'll sleep. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#brave #courage #fortitude #god #grace

You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart. ↗

— Fred Allen

#fly #fruit #heart #hollywood #navel