#your

It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where you feel alive, except by following this way. And, as you will see, this way will lead anyone who looks for it to buildings which are themselves as ancient in their form, as the trees and hills, and as our faces are. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#ancient #anyone #beautiful #beautiful places #buildings

Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#arises #builder #enhancing #instinct #must

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil. ↗

— James Lane Allen

#day #dream #dreams #ideal #last

It's a pity that I can never really enjoy my movies because, after the mixing, your capacity as a spectator just disappears. I have to think about what I felt just before the mixing. ↗

— Pedro Almodovar

#after #because #before #capacity #disappears

Your mind is what makes everything else work. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#everything #makes #mind #work #your

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#ground #how #knack #learning #miss

A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. ↗

— Joey Adams

#asks #expensive #lot #nothing #psychiatrist

I want to feel passion, I want to feel pain. I want to weep at the sound of your name. Come make me laugh, come make me cry... just make me feel alive. ↗

— Joey Lauren Adams

#come #cry #feel #i #just

It just gets frustrating playing the girlfriend, It's just this awful feeling, sitting in your house, waiting for a script to come. I like to be more proactive. ↗

— Joey Lauren Adams

#come #feeling #frustrating #gets #girlfriend

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. ↗

— John Quincy Adams

#alone #always #cherish #lost #may