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“In New York, the impact of these concentrated superskyscrapers on street scale and sunlight, on the city's aniquated support systems, circulation, and infrastructure, on its already tenuous livability, overrides any aesthetic. ... Art becomes worthless in a city brutalized by overdevelopment.”
Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (1984). “The tall building artistically reconsidered: the search for a skyscraper style”, Pantheon
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“The fact that the same proportionalities rule optimal running, flying and swimming is not a coincidence rather it is an illustration of the fact that a universal principle is involved. Running requires the least food when during each cycle a certain amount of work is destroyed by vertical impact and a certain amount to horizontal friction. The same balancing act is responsible for optimal flight and swimming.”
Source : "Everybody's Doing the Locomotion". www.foxnews.com. December 30, 2005. 
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“No matter what you do, if you're trying to create something new, your environment has a massive impact on you.”
Source : Source: www.argusleader.com
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“Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again.”
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“The World Health Organization ... estimated that 1.6 million years of healthy living are lost every year in Europe because of noise pollution.”
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“If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year.”
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“Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without”
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“Good isn't my thing but Sawyer's important to me. Please remember I've got my limits and you studying my mouth like you want a taste is pushing me dangerously close to the edge of those limits.”
Source : Abbi Glines (2013). “The Vincent Boys Extended and Uncut Collection: The Vincent Boys -- Extended and Uncut; The Vincent Brothers -- Extended and Uncut”, p.43, Simon and Schuster
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“Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.”
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“Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.”
