#id

I wish that person outside would stop coughing. ↗

When I grew up, people said, 'You'll never be the man your dad was.' And I said, 'Gee, I hope not.' ↗

I trained as a theater actor and you had a bare stage and you had to pretend, one prop and you are in the middle of 8th Ave. and traffic is just going by. ↗

— Benicio Del Toro

#bare #going #had #i #just

Please, comrade! I just want to chop him up for the stew!' 'And that's another thing! I'm tired of stew! I want to put him in a crust and bake a light fluffy quiche!' 'QUICHE?! What kind of food is THAT for a monster to eat?! ↗

— Jeff Smith

#humour #quiche #stupid-stupid-rat-creatures #food

The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#architect #build #concert #concert hall #great

We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#best #cities #context #create #desired

Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns. ↗

— Willem de Kooning

#behind #columns #felt #fraud #greeks

I had a fantastic mother who taught me self-confidence. ↗

— Anna Torv

#had #i #me #mother #self-confidence

Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#because #expect #fun #get #good

Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid. ↗