#w

From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#character #easily #form #individual #nature

You know, because of the lack of budget, we had to find neighborhoods where time had stopped - kind of stuck in the '50s. And no place had that better than Staten Island. ↗

— Jason Alexander

#better #budget #find #had #island

The more living patterns there are in a place - a room, a building, or a town - the more it comes to life as an entirety, the more it glows, the more it has that self-maintaining fire which is the quality without a name. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#comes #entirety #fire #glows #life

I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you were so honest - can't you have some fun? Can't you do some really down and dirty lying?' But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I'll be punished. ↗

— Willem Dafoe

#christ #could #dirty #down #fun

I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death. ↗

— Eben Alexander

#believed #brain #death #described #escaped

Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it isn't. ↗

— Eben Alexander

#brain #dependent #eternal #evidence #hard

There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscious, inner self - was alive and well. ↗

— Eben Alexander

#body #conscious #explanation #fact #inner

Now, I cannot approve anything the council has rejected, but I can reject anything the council has approved. ↗

— Jane Alexander

#approve #approved #cannot #council #i

I still don't know much about directing a movie. ↗

— Jason Alexander

#directing #i #know #movie #much

There are many great truths which we do not deny, and which nevertheless we do not fully believe. ↗

— Joshua Willis Alexander

#deny #fully #great #many #nevertheless