#alexander

Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; And universal darkness buries all. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#entropy #anarchism

I think people will say, 'You know what? That Shaun Alexander, he did all right when he was here. ↗

— Shaun Alexander

#did #here #i #i think #know

He considers the theatrical version of Fanny and Alexander an amputated version of what his original film was, and he doesn't really like the shorter film. ↗

— Bille August

#amputated #considers #fanny #film #his

Alexander Gonzalez Inarritu is a great director. He's the one I first worked with. He's amazing. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#amazing #director #first #great #i

I don't have a favourite designer because I feel every designer offers something different and special, but I do really like Alexander Wang, Burberry, Stella McCartney and Balmain. ↗

— Jourdan Dunn

#because #designer #different #every #favourite

'Born to play? Hmmm. Probably Romeo... or Hamlet, I guess. Also, I'd be a great Alexander the Great. ↗

— David Carradine

#also #born #great #guess #hamlet

Brooke?” I puff out a sigh. “For chrissake, Reid, who do you think it is? And haven’t you put me into your contacts yet?” “Yeah... It just says Satan, though, and I forgot I’d assigned that title to you. ↗

— Tammara Webber

#reid #reid-alexander #satan

I like Stella McCartney, Chloe, Alexander McQueen, Aaron Featherstone, normal Chanel if I can ever afford it, I'd be wearing that all the time! I like to admire from afar. ↗

— Brittany Snow

#admire #afar #afford #alexander #chanel

I believe that the idea of the totality, the finality of the master-plan, is misguided. One should advocate a gradual transformation of public space, a metamorphic process, without relying on a hypothetical time in the future when everything will be perfect. The mistake of planners and architects is to believe that fifty years from now Alexanderplatz will be perfected. -p.197 ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#architecture #methodology #modernity #urban-planning #architecture

I have never known courage to be judged by the length of a man's hair. Or, for the matter of that, whether he has any hair at all. ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

#courage