“There is in Ammiel Alcalay’s work an unabashed tenderness for the world as it is, and that makes him courageous, different.” WorldDifferentCourageousTenderness Author:Etel Adnan
“To read a lot of trash mixing the blood of war with business’s stench. To root out any happiness. To go out, and down, and on the road. To hesitate; to go on, and ahead, and back, and up the stairs, and in one’s room. On the way, to notice that the mountain is still there. To lie and sleep, deeply, heavily. To reproduce night’s sleep. To wake up, look through the window at green water, from the Bay to the mountain, and return to one’s self. To remember that war is devastating Irak. To feel pain.” WayFeelsLooksStillsWarSelfPainRememberLyingNightWaterSleepRoomsBloodGoes OnReturnMountainRootsWindowWake UpDown AndGreenTrashStairsMixing Author:Etel Adnan
“I believe that a writer is a person who writes. An author is a person who has written.” WritingBelievePersonsI BelieveWritten Author:Dean Wesley Smith
“When your house contains such a complex of piping, flues, ducts, wires, lights, inlets, outlets, ovens, sinks, refuse disposers, hi-fi re-verberators, antennae, conduits, freezers, heaters -when it contains so many services that the hardware could stand up by itself without any assistance from the house, why have a house hold it up. When the cost of all this tackle is half of the total outlay (or more, as it often is) what is the house doing except concealing your mechanical pudenda from the stares of folks on the sidewalk?” LightHouseHalfCostComplexesFolksRefuseStaringAssistanceWireOutletsOften IsSidewalkHardwareOvensConcealingFreezer Author:Reyner Banham
“In a landscape where nothing officially exists (otherwise it would not be 'desert'), absolutely anything becomes thinkable, and may consequently happen.” MayHappensDesertLandscapeThinkable Author:Reyner Banham
“The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.” LifeCreativityTechnologyDesignProfoundEverydayDisappearFabricEveryday Life Author:Mark Weiser
“I see a sea of networkers all doing and saying the same things. They look alike, act alike and sound alike when speaking to prospects. If you want to rise above the average, mediocre networker... then you have to think differently.” IfsThinkingWantLooksSoundSeaAverageMediocreRise AboveProspects Author:Mark Weiser
“Machines that fit the human environment, instead of forcing humans to enter theirs, will make using a computer as refreshing as taking a walk in the woods.” HumansWalksEnvironmentFitComputerMachinesWoodsRefreshingWalk In The Woods Author:Mark Weiser
“To exist is to defy all that threatens you. To be a rebel is not to accumulate a library of subversive books or to dream of fantastic conspiracies or of taking to the hills. It is to make yourself your own law. To find in yourself what counts. To make sure that you’re never “cured” of your youth. To prefer to put everyone up against the wall rather than to remain supine. To pillage whatever can be converted to your law, without concern for appearance.” LifeInspirationalBookDreamLawExistenceYouthWallFindingsConcernLibraryAppearanceFantasticHillsRebelConspiracyAccumulationSubversiveEssayistsDefyingPillaging Author:Dominique Venner
“When I was growing up in Mississippi - it was good Southern food... but I also grew up with a Greek family; when other kids were eating fried okra, we were eating steamed artichokes. So I think it played a big part in my healthy cooking.” ThinkingBigsKidsGrowing UpGrowingGrewHealthyEatingGrew UpCookingGreekSouthernMississippiArtichokesOkra Author:Cat Cora