#oda

Everyone is aware that most of the built environment today lacks a natural order, an order which presents itself very strongly in places that were built centuries ago. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#aware #built #centuries #environment #everyone

There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great traditional buildings of the past, the villages and tents and temples in which man feels at home, have always been made by people who were very close to the center of this way. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#been #building #buildings #center #close

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy - yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible. ↗

— Nelson Algren

#critic #entailed #generalized #him #impossible

I think the real problem is that nobody buys albums anymore, so you don't get the depth of the artists that are out today. What you get is whatever they felt is politically correct to get on there and actually make some impact. I think that's where you're losing your depth. You're only getting the very top of everything. It really bothers me. ↗

— Gary Allan

#albums #anymore #artists #bothers #buys

Today's girls are tomorrow's women - and leaders. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#today #tomorrow #women

The clothes back in those days were made so much better than clothes are today. They actually took time to make clothes to fit a woman's body. Today they make clothes that fit sizes, so it stretches to fit this and that. ↗

— Debbie Allen

#back #better #body #clothes #days

The President of today is just the postage stamp of tomorrow. ↗

— Gracie Allen

#postage #president #stamp #today #tomorrow

There is a direct line relationship between what happened in Afghanistan in the work up to 11 September 2001 and what we're doing in Afghanistan today. ↗

— John R. Allen

#between #direct #doing #happened #line

Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#children #dated #daughter #feed #feminism

I have photographs taken of me at the time I was addicted, and thought I looked good. I see them today and realize my eyes were dead. ↗

— Kirstie Alley

#dead #eyes #good #i #i see