#hit

A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#bookstore #buys #clears #every #him

A house is a machine for living in. ↗

— Le Corbusier

#house #living #machine

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects. ↗

— Le Corbusier

#create #function #objects #order #put

Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#american #apologize #canadians #car #easily

We've never performed the song live outside of recording it in the studio. That was a dream come true because Whitney, she's an icon and she's been one of my main mentors in this business. ↗

— Deborah Cox

#been #business #come #dream #icon

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#expediency #law #long #simply #wearing

I didn't know it at the time, but Hitch didn't want to talk to me - he hated meeting with people he might have to reject. As it turned out, someone, maybe his agent, insisted that he interview me. ↗

— Joseph Stefano

#hated #his #hitch #i #insisted

No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going. ↗

— Oliver Cromwell

#high #knows #rises #whither #who

I also think the relationship I have with my audience is a lot more complex than what Hitchcock seemed to want his to be - although I think he had more going on under the surface as well. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#although #audience #complex #going #had

I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, 'Hey, I don't like white people.' ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#created #fact #generation #hey #i