#spaces

We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#common #earth #everybody #fate #going

Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#came #earth #fact #important #important fact

More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#battlefields #comedy #endless #family #headed

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#frightens #infinite #me #silence #spaces

Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition. ↗

— John Portman

#architects #attention #believe #building #concentrate

Everyone has the right to walk from one end of the city to the other in secure and beautiful spaces. Everybody has the right to go by public transport. Everybody has the right to an unhampered view down their street, not full of railings, signs and rubbish. ↗

— Richard Rogers

#city #down #end #everybody #everyone

One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#anticipates #changes #ideas #inhabit #likes

I mean, money people are usually quite brisk, but mine aren't, and they keep on giving me spaces so that I've been able to go on and do plays and films. ↗

— Jeremy Brett

#been #films #giving #go #i

Thank you to Giulia Fani, Joan Spence and my sister for the rooms and desks they loaned me. ↗

— Moez Surani

#familial-perspectives #favoritism #floaters #graciousness #politicized-spaces

New York may end up being no more than a scrim, a spectral film that is none other than our craving for romance—romance with life, with masonry, with memory, sometimes romance with nothing at all. This longing goes out to the city and from the city comes back to us. Call it narcissism. Or call it passion. It has its flare-ups, its cold nights, its sudden lurches, and its embraces. It is our life finally revealed to us in the most lifeless hard objects we'll ever cast eyes on: concrete, steel, stonework. Our need for intimacy and love is so powerful that we'll look for them and find them in asphalt and soot. ↗

— André Aciman

#life