#eli

Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition. ↗

— John Portman

#architects #attention #believe #building #concentrate

Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization - like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture - what circumstances created the environment or the need for it. ↗

— Natalie Portman

#beginning #berlin #came #circumstances #civilization

You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there. ↗

— Natalie Portman

#done #get #i #israel #jewish

I'm up here in Cleveland tonight and there are a lot of folks who are concerned about it. Twenty-five percent of the people up here get their health care through religious organizations and so that religious freedom issue is very important to them. ↗

— Rob Portman

#care #cleveland #concerned #folks #freedom

This past year has been very turbulent for the Middle East, and my conversation with Prime Minister Netanyahu strengthened my belief that we need to remain vigilant in our support of our critical ally. ↗

— Rob Portman

#been #belief #conversation #critical #east

I don't believe in one ideal beauty. ↗

— Zac Posen

#believe #i #ideal

TCP works very hard to get the data delivered in order without errors and does retransmissions and recoveries and all that kind of stuff which is exactly what you want in a file transfer because so you don't want any errors in your file. ↗

— Jon Postel

#because #data #delivered #does #errors

I think I'm a really good partner and very sensitive to the other person's feelings. I want somebody else to be comfortable, to understand about my job, and if they want to come on a set and see me work, they always can. ↗

— Franka Potente

#always #come #comfortable #else #feelings

I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of marble and then chip away to find the figure in it. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#chip #create #figure #find #following

There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly present in the early work. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#certainly #diminish #early #early work #foreground