186 Quotes

“...frequent streets and short blocks are valuable because of the fabric of intricate cross-use that they permit among the users of a city neighbouhood.”
― Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities

“On the front flap, the reader was informed that the Testamento geometrico was really three books, 'each independent, but functionally correlated by the sweep of the whole,' and then it said 'this work representing the final distillation of Dieste's reflections and research on Space, the notion of which is involved in any methodical discussion of the fundamentals of Geometry.”
― Roberto Bolaño, 2666

“Every time I walked into an examination hall, handed in a paper, signed up for a club, participated in a contest…the mad rush of hope in my blood, only for my optimism to sour into disappointment.”
― Ann Liang, I Am Not Jessica Chen

“I think there’s a pain somewhere in the room,” said Mrs. Gradgrind, “but I couldn’t positively say that I have got it.”
― Charles Dickens