224 Quotes

“She was having an attack of knuckleheaded anxiety. Those attacks last a long time.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Journey to the End of the Night

“Googie architecture could...be seen in its finest flowering among the essentially homogeneous and standardized enterprises of roadside commercial strips: hot-dog stands in the shape of hot dogs, ice-cream stands in the shape of ice-cream cones. There are obvious examples of virtual sameness trying, by dint of exhibitionism, to appear unique and different from their similar commercial neighbors.”
― Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities