Densify Quotes

#1. I think water transport will see a revival. However, we're not going to replay the 20th century. The industrial city of that era will not be revived. Our cities are going to contract. Many of them will contract as a whole but densify at their core.

James Howard Kunstler

#2. The more you densify a city, the more congestion will increase, however technology changes ... cities so packed that they will no longer function ... vertical sprawl.

Leon Krier

#3. If we're talking about transportation, the best thing a city can do is densify as quickly as it can. That needs to be said every time this issue comes up, because it's the only universal strategy that works.

Alex Steffen

#4. I don't want to paint rainbows: I want to make art that disturbs identity and challenges authority.

Aman Mojadidi

#5. Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.

Matsuo Basho

#6. I'm a silly guy, I love wit and cynicism and sarcasm.

Columbus Short

#7. As we start looking for the good, our focus automatically is taken off the bad.

Susan Jeffers

#8. And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five.

James Merrill

#9. What puzzled me was why I seemed to be so troubled by all these irregularities and exceptions to major rules while others blithely marched ahead.

Catherine Gildiner

#10. To secure peace is to prepare for war.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#11. May you be set free from all your fears.
May you be saved from all your troubles.
May you be rescued from every calamity.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. I love you, he thought. And then left her.

Lauren Gilley

#13. The meaning of worldly life is external problems [upadhi, problems arising out of external situations]. There is nothing in it which belongs to us. Seeds (causes) of external problems are sown, and external problems grow again.

Dada Bhagwan

#14. I've always wanted to be self-sustaining and able to grow my own food. All I lack is land and skill.

Susan Juby

#15. The Fall is an offense to human reason, but once accepted, it makes perfect sense of the human condition.

Blaise Pascal

#16. Diabetologists implicitly take the same tack whenever they discuss the need for their diabetic patients to "normalize" blood sugar, while recommending that this be accomplished primarily with "intensive insulin therapy" rather than restricting the carbohydrate content of their diets.

Gary Taubes

#17. Well, in my world, our world, there are too many guns and too many bad things happen because of them." Pippin,

John Grisham