There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.

The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.

There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.

Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old ladies, still cling to the fashions and coiffures of their exciting youth.

Design is people.

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

Being human is itself difficult and therefore all kinds of settlements except dream cities have problems. Big cities have difficulties in abundance because they have people in abundance.

Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody only because and only when they are created by everybody.

Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements just as some belles when they are old ladies still cling to the fashions and coiffures of their exciting youth.

Detroit is largely composed today of seemingly endless square miles of low density failure.

When we deal with cities we are dealing with life at its most complex and intense. Planners are guided by principles derived from the behaviour and appearance of suburbs, tuberculosis sanatoria, fairs and imaginary dream cities - from anything but cities themselves.

Almost nobody travels willingly from sameness to sameness and repetition to repetition, even if the physical effort required is trivial.

Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs.

Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves.

Dull, inert cities, it is true, do contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else. But lively, diverse, intense cities contain the seeds of their own regeneration, with energy enough to carry over for problems and needs outside themselves.

Le Corbusier's dream city was like a wonderful mechanical toy. But as to how the city works, it tells nothing but lies.

I have got this obsessive compulsive disorder where I have to have everything in a straight line, or everything has to be in pairs.

Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.

If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'

I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.

Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.

For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.

I think sometimes what happens is that all of this feeling out of control manifests itself in trying to control your body; whether it's an eating disorder or talking about getting your nose fixed, as if that's going to be the solution to all the pressure.

Today a racist is synonymous with race hatred. Hating someone is a pretty unpleasant thing and few people are capable of hating others. Long-term hatred is a pathological disorder.

Autism is an extremely variable disorder.

There's a certain amount of disorder that has to be reorganized.

If I like myself at this weight, then this is what I'm going to be. I don't have an eating disorder.

Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder.

It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.

Well, Italy had been overrun by the War, there had practically been civil war, north and south of the Gothic Line, heavy bombing, the northern industrial cities had been bombed heavily and we had political disorder before 1948.

Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.

It is like our foreign policy has attention deficit disorder.

Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you ALIVE.

Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.

Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.

Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive.

It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could not originate, and favourable forms would not be perpetuated by natural selection.

I've had this problem since I was in my 20s. They don't call it manic depression anymore. They call it a bipolar disorder, and I'm a Type 2.

The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.

I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.

Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality.

Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.

Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

It was about this time that I began experiencing the beginnings of my battles with an anxiety disorder. We were touring a lot and there were some developing personal problems within the band.