#nic

For better or for worse, I've watched people die in front of me. I see how they are in the end. And they're not cynical. In the end, they wanna hold somebody's hand. And that's real to me. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#cynical #die #end #front #hand

Almost everybody that's well-known gets tagged with a nickname. ↗

— Alan Alda

#everybody #gets #nickname #tagged #well-known

I don't really worry about the size of the part much any more. It's nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there's something playable there, and if it's interesting to do, then that's nice. ↗

— Alan Alda

#any #big #character #i #interesting

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

We define organic order as the kind of order that is achieved when there is a perfect balance between the needs of the parts, and the needs of the whole. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#balance #between #define #kind #needs

It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#convenient #described #distinguish #experience #kinds

Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#actually #american #american writers #areas #call

At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#far #found #get #guy #home

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#make #out #penicillin #something #sure

Radio interoperability is essential for our police, fire, and emergency medical service departments to communicate with each other in times of emergency. ↗

— Lucille Roybal-Allard

#departments #each #emergency #essential #fire