#visions

I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#i #places #politics #ropes #televisions

I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more. ↗

— Thom Mayne

#any #architects #architecture #called #could

It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions. ↗

— Ed McMahon

#around #build #community #downtown #hard

What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited. ↗

— C. Wright Mills

#bounded #directly #limited #live #men

They don't have the news media set up in Africa that we do in the United States, where televisions are so accessible and newspapers and magazines are able to educate people. ↗

— Matthew Modine

#accessible #africa #educate #magazines #media

Each State has its own health insurance mandates, and some of them are good, but there are about 1,800 of them all across the Nation, including provisions for acupuncturists, massage therapists, and hair replacements. ↗

— Timothy Murphy

#across #each #good #hair #health

Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny. ↗

— Ben Nicholson

#apart #complete #enemy #fall #grandeur

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#divisions #end #few #find #gain

Filmgoers are starved for new ideas, voices and visions. ↗

— Robert Redford

#new #new ideas #starved #visions #voices

Everyone wants to talk about it, and right now music, flat-panel televisions, a whole host of new handheld devices are fun to talk about and very exciting to look at. ↗

— Kevin Rollins

#devices #everyone #exciting #fun #handheld