#places

In an age robbed of religious symbols, going to the shops replaces going to the church. We have a free choice, but at a price. We can win experience, but never achieve innocence. Marx knew that the epic activities of the modern world involve not lance and sword but dry goods. ↗

— Stephen Bayley

#activities #age #choice #church #dry

I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it's mostly because we don't know what the rules are. It's easy for us to go to certain places, so I'm not surprised that a lot of people were amused by my songwriting style. ↗

— Frank Black

#any #because #break #certain #easy

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#escape #hiding #innumerable #many #only

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#crisis #darkest #hell #maintain #moral

I remember being in China and realising how irrelevant not even Britain is, but also Europe. We're just another remote country that hardly impinges on some places at all. ↗

— Clive Anderson

#another #being #britain #china #country

I love running in Europe, man, running at places like Zurich and Crystal Palace where the crowd is so knowledgeable and appreciative. ↗

— Maurice Greene

#crowd #crystal #europe #i #i love

Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#being #development #entertainment #inner-city #intellectual

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

Once you understand this way, you will be able to make your room alive; you will be able to design a house together with your family; a garden for your children; places where you can work; beautiful terraces where you can sit and dream. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#alive #beautiful #children #design #dream

The U.S. is, so far as I know, the only nation which places such extensive reliance on the polygraph. It has gotten us into a lot of trouble. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#far #gotten #i #into #know