Prisoners Of Geography Quotes & Sayings

All but universally, human architecture values front elevations over back entrances, public spaces over private. Danny Jessup says that this aspect of architecture is also a reflection of human nature, that most people care more about their appearance than they do about their souls. — Dean Koontz

We have to have dreams, even if they never come true. — Oscar Niemeyer

I do say I'm a specialist in divas. Name a diva - I've worked with 'em. — Philip Treacy

The thing that's great about those guys at Miramax is the Weinstein brothers. They are the two funniest guys I've ever met in my life. — Ted Demme

Clouds, this evening
The same as always, like thirst,
The same red dress, unfastened.
Imagine, passerby,
Our new beginnings, our eagerness, our trust. — Yves Bonnefoy

Every man is a plastic artist who must determine things for himself. — Joseph Beuys

Child, looking through bubbles into the future; now those bright bubbles were all behind him. Once more he had — Hans Christian Andersen

Fungible goods in economics can be extended and traded. So, half as much grain is half as much useful, but half a baby or half a computer is less useful than a whole baby or a whole computer, and we've been trying to make computers that work that way. — Neil Gershenfeld

Why are stupid people so confident and why are smart people so shy? The effect of Dunning-Kruger. — Anna G.

After Col. Henry Bouquet defeated the Ohio Indians at Bushy Run in 1763, he demanded the release of all white captives. Most of them, especially the children, had to be "bound hand and foot" and forcibly returned to white society. Meanwhile, the Native prisoners "went back to their defeated relations with great signs of joy," in the words of the anthropologist Frederick Turner (in Beyond Geography, 245). Turner rightly calls these scenes "infamous and embarrassing. — James W. Loewen

Simplicity is the law of nature for men as well as for flowers. — Henry David Thoreau

Will you share that path with me always?"
"Nothing would please me more. — Sarah Holman