#ago

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

I had a little epiphany when I was a writer at 'Chicago' magazine. I sat down to dinner at the Ritz-Carlton. Somebody poured a white dessert wine with chocolate cake. It was a wine I would never have expected to make sense. The idea of any wine tasting fabulous with chocolate cake was fascinating to me. ↗

— Ted Allen

#cake #chicago #chocolate #chocolate cake #dessert

Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a station wagon. ↗

— Tim Allen

#end #ferrari #like #pickup #sometimes

I didn't have any desire I might have had 10 years ago to shoot every single word that I wrote. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

#any #desire #every #had #i

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#agony #bearing #greater #inside #old story

A few years ago no hotel or restaurant in Boston refused Negro guests; now several hotels, restaurants, and especially confectionary stores, will not serve Negroes, even the best of them. ↗

— Ray Stannard Baker

#best #boston #especially #even #few

And I did wonder - because it's now three years ago since I left prison - whether there would come a time when I would forget it, or it would be in the past as anything else might be - no, it's there every day of my life. ↗

— Jeffrey Archer

#anything #because #come #day #did

Somebody will be able to crack ebook files in the same way that people cracked music files a decade ago. An author could have worked for three years on his book, have someone buy it for their Kindle for £6.99 and then see it shared with everyone in the world for free. ↗

— Simon Armitage

#ago #author #book #buy #could

These wrestlers aren't organized. They have no union, no pension and no insurance. You meet wrestler after wrestler who sold out Madison Square Garden ten years ago, basically running on fumes today. There's a lot of drama there. ↗

— Darren Aronofsky

#ago #basically #drama #fumes #garden

In Chicago, I walked in knowing what the dancers were going to need. ↗

— Colleen Atwood

#dancers #going #i #knowing #need