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“I'm completely taken and impressed by the planning authority of Singapore and its Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). It's the most cutting-edge agency in the world. They have very effective guidelines for development, and they review design as it evolves.”

World Taken Cutting Design Development Authority Edges Planning Evolve Agency Reviews Impressed Urban Singapore Cutting Edge Guidelines

Author:Moshe Safdie

“When we wake, it is because something, some event, some pinprick even, disturbs the edges of what we’ve taken as reality.”

Reality Taken Events Edges

Book:Annihilation: A Novel

Source: Annihilation: A Novel

“Avant garde" has become a ubiquitous label, eclectically applied to any type of art that is anti-traditional in form. At its simplest, the term is sometimes taken to describe what is new at any given time: the leading edge of artistic experiment, which is continually outdated by the next step forward.”

Art Sometimes Form Next Given Term Steps Taken Type Edges Experiments Traditional Artistic Labels Simplest Next Steps Steps Forward Avant Garde Outdated

Book:Avant Garde Theatre, 1892-1992

Source: Avant Garde Theatre, 1892-1992

“to grow old is to have taken away, one by one, all gifts of life, the food and wine, the music and the company. ... the gods unloose, one by one, the mortal fingers that cling to the edge of the table.”

Grows Company Taken Tables Wine Aging Fingers Edges Mortals Food And Wine Gifts Of Life

Book:Three kingdoms

Source: Three kingdoms

“Whatever a scientist is doing - reading, cooking, talking, playing - science thoughts are always there at the edge of the mind. They are the way the world is taken in; all that is seen is filtered through an everpresent scientific musing.”

World Way Mind Science Reading Talking Taken Scientist Cooking Edges Musings

Book:Women in Science: Then and Now

Source: Women in Science: Then and Now

“From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.”

Want Book Literature Darkness Taken Edges Glimpse Good Book

Author:Mark Haddon

“Humourists lead... an existence of jumpiness and apprehension. They sit on the edge of the chair of Literature. In the house of Life they have the feeling that they have never taken off their overcoats.”

Feelings Literature House Existence Taken Humour Edges Chairs Apprehension Overcoat

Author:James Thurber

“I've been to unpretty places with the roles I've played, and I'm attracted to reckless abandon. I like being taken to the edge of my own abyss.”

My Own Roles Taken Edges Abandon Abyss Reckless Reckless Abandon

Author:Rhys Ifans