#spaces

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #spaces




Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.


John Portman


#architects #attention #believe #building #concentrate

The great seats of power tend to be wide and open, not vertical and soaring. Red Square, Tiananmen Square, the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin - all massive but with large open spaces that project an image of might.


Gary Ross


#gate #great #image #large #massive

One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space.


Jasper Johns


#anticipates #changes #ideas #inhabit #likes

New York may end up being no more than a scrim, a spectral film that is none other than our craving for romance—romance with life, with masonry, with memory, sometimes romance with nothing at all. This longing goes out to the city and from the city comes back to us. Call it narcissism. Or call it passion. It has its flare-ups, its cold nights, its sudden lurches, and its embraces. It is our life finally revealed to us in the most lifeless hard objects we'll ever cast eyes on: concrete, steel, stonework. Our need for intimacy and love is so powerful that we'll look for them and find them in asphalt and soot.


André Aciman


#life

I drove out of Dartmouth and after a while Start Bay emerged out of the brightening gloom like the end of a set of parentheses in a book about the natural world. Inside the parentheses was a story about the sea. Outside them, the land: green, red and brown fields, and hills curling over the landscape. I saw small, delicate clumps of snowdrops, big rough patches of gorse, and along the thin road, houses with yellow roses and mimosa growing in their gardens.


Scarlett Thomas


#nature

And then you take a look at Spaces, there is this great innovation that came out of nowhere. We have the number one blogging site in the world because of the innovation that's there.


Steve Ballmer


#blogging #came #great #innovation #look

Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.


Brian Ferneyhough


#criteria #entering #failure #implications #instances

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.


Arthur Koestler


#critical #end #fair #history #justifies

People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more.


Sara Paretsky


#crammed #each #keep #less #lot

My analysis was directed toward purely physical conditions, such as defective wiring, presence of lack of air spaces between metal flues and woodwork, etc., and the results were presented in these terms.


Benjamin Whorf


#analysis #between #conditions #defective #directed