#ding

It's not hard to read about death abstractly. I do find it tough when a character I love dies, of course. You can truly miss characters. Not like you miss people, but you can still miss them. ↗

— Will Schwalbe

#death #life #missing-someone #reading #death

From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#character #easily #form #individual #nature

Most of our funding goes to organizations and is then used to leverage the private sector. ↗

— Jane Alexander

#goes #leverage #most #organizations #our

The more living patterns there are in a place - a room, a building, or a town - the more it comes to life as an entirety, the more it glows, the more it has that self-maintaining fire which is the quality without a name. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#comes #entirety #fire #glows #life

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself. ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

#finding #itself #learn #learning #looking

It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#added #contemplated #contemplation #course #enjoyment

I paint according to the moment and the theme. I don't have any prejudice. Life concerns me. ↗

— Ralph Allen

#any #concerns #i #life #me

Back 20 years ago, I was recording with Bruce Springsteen, and his producer called me and said I had to be in the studio the next day to finish the sessions, and I couldn't. I had to be in court, in California. All this took like 10 years out of my life. ↗

— Ronnie Spector

#back #bruce #bruce springsteen #california #called

I absolutely don't believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck. ↗

— Al Alvarez

#anything #believe #full #i #including

I'm good at reading people. ↗

— Al Alvarez

#i #people #reading