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Patrick Geddes Quotes

Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic whole; and each of its ideas and ideals wins also its place and power.

Patrick Geddes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: scottish
Birth: October 2, 1854 - April 17, 1932

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Power Ideas Influence Place Civic

I maintain that if you're a novelist and you go into an art museum, you'll come out a better novelist. And if you paint a picture for an hour you're a better actor at the end of it.

John Hawkes

Art End Better Picture You Museum

I applaud the effort it takes to put a record together.

John Lydon

Together Effort Record Takes Applaud

At 16 years old, I was signed to my very first modeling agency. That was my first real introduction to the entertainment industry. It really opened my eyes to a world that was available to me.

Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

Eyes Me World Modeling Introduction

I didn't know why God had chose me for this ordeal, but I was somehow suited to it and knew that I would see it through to the end.

Amber Frey

God Me End Know Why See

When I was 16 and wanted to be an actor, people told me to go work at the supermarket.

Steve Valentine

Work People Me Go Actor Supermarket

Let sleeping dogs lie.

Robert Walpole

Lie Sleeping Dogs

A lot of my friends who grew up in Manhattan have a strange phobia about Brooklyn. It's big and scary and they get lost.

Moby

Friends Brooklyn Lost Strange Scary

Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.

Doris Lessing

Time World Distance First Seem Wars

Well, I used to have a sister, but I never got to meet her because she died after two days, I think. So if I got a tattoo, it would probably have to be something to do with my sister. I actually want to get a tattoo when I'm older of something about her.

Chloe Grace Moretz

Sister Think Want Meet Tattoo Never

God will give you no more than you can handle.

Clarence Clemons

God You Will More Handle Give

'Clone Club' is incredible - probably the best set of fans any show could ever hope for.

Ari Millen

Hope Best Club Fans Show Incredible

Memories. That's the thing about photography. I look at the contact sheet, and it brings back everything: whether I was tired, whether I was full of beans.

William Klein

Memories Tired Photography Look Back