Spaces Quotes

“SPACES... BREAKS...TO CONTEMPLATE THINGS... TO FIGURE OUT WHAT'S IMPORTANT...”
― Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After

“Anyone who has become entranced by the sound of water drops in the darkness of a ruin can attest to the extraordinary capacity of the ear to carve a volume into the void of darkness. The space traced by the ear becomes a cavity sculpted in the interior of the mind.”
― Steven Holl, Questions of Perception: Phenomenology of Architecture

“It is these empty spaces you have to watch out for, as they flood up with feeling before you even realize what's happened.”
― Aimee Bender, Willful Creatures

“A poetess is not as selfish
as you assume.
After months of agonising
over her marriage of words—the bride—
and spaces—the groom,
she knows that as soon
as she has penned the poem,
it’s yours to consume.
So, without giving it a think,
she blows on the ink
and the letters fly away
like dandelions on a windy day,
landing on hands and lips,
on hearts and hips.
But more often than not,
you can easily spot
them trodden and forgotten,
becoming sodden and rotten.
Yet, she will continue to make
what’s others to take
because selfishness
is not the mark of a poetess.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“You are there in my breaths and in the spaces between my breaths.”
― Avijeet Das

“There is no place more lonely
Than a rich man's home.”
― Margarita Engle, The Firefly Letters

“It's a silly argument, and unnecessary. Creativity doesn't happen "in here" or "out there" but in the spaces in between. Creativity is a relationship, one that unfolds at the intersection of person and place.”
― Eric Weiner, The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley

“I know that back when you were in seventh-grade typing class and pecking away at your Smith Corona Coronet Automatic 12, Mrs. Tegnell taught you to type a double space after a sentence-ending period, but you are no longer in the seventh grade, you are no longer typing on a typewriter, and Mrs. Tegnell is no longer looking over your shoulder.”
― Benjamin Dreyer, Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style

“Guaravacan del Guaicuì: vossignoria prenda nota di questo nome. Ma, non esiste più, non si trova – ultimamente, quel posto si chiama Caixeiropoli; e dicono che là adesso ci vengono le febbri. In quel tempo, no. No che io mi ricordi. Ma fu in quel luogo, in quel tempo, che il mio destino fu suggellato. È possibile che ci sia un punto definito, da cui uno non può più tornare indietro? Traversia della mia vita. Guaravacan – vossignoria veda, vossignoria scriva. Le grandi cose, prima che accadano. Adesso, il mondo vuol restare senza sertao. […] Quel luogo, l'aria. […] Il vento è verde. Lì, nell'intervallo, uno prende il silenzio e se lo mette sulle ginocchia. Io sono di dove nacqui. Sono di altri luoghi. Ma, là, a Guaravacan, io stavo bene.”
― Guimarães Rosa João, Grande Sertão: Veredas

“People feeling the need to live inside of Faraday cages is a sad reflection on modern society that humans are devolving into living inside of safe spaces.”
― Steven Magee

“In these spaces of leisure, powerful local elites, Viet Kieus from the diaspora, business executives, and marginal tourists enter into niche markets that never overlap. Instead, each niche market operates with a unique logic of desire that has important implications for how we think about that place of sex work in the global economy.”
― Kimberly Kay Hoang, Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work

“Sensuality can only be found in intimate moments or space.”
― Lebo Grand

“Sensuality can only be found in intimate moments or spaces.”
― Lebo Grand

“Sensuality can only be found in intimate moments and/or spaces.”
― Lebo Grand

“I really only read in the library," he says. "I'm really attached to the idea that different spaces, whether physical or interpersonal, will create different thoughts and experiences. Having a comfortable chair, good light-- these things do put you into a state of mind to better absorb ideas.”
― Nina Freudenberger, Bibliostyle: How We Live at Home with Books

“Mindfully immersing yourself in nature is a Japanese practice known as forest bathing, or shinrin-yoku.”
― Oliver Heath, Design A Healthy Home: 100 ways to transform your space for physical and mental wellbeing

“Distance reminds us that there’s a lot more to the universe than just people—that there’s even a lot more to people than just people. It reminds us that there are mental spaces inside our skulls as enormous as the spaces out there. The experience of distance, of inner distance and outer distance, of distance in time and distance in space—it’s the first and fundamental religious experience.”
― Aldous Huxley, Island

“Some people might make you feel that you don't belong in certain spaces. The reality is that it's possible that they're the ones who don't belong there. So, when there's discomfort, don't be in a hurry to leave .”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Material possessions radiate a certain type of energy. They are not neutral. The more material possessions you have around you, the more distracting and draining those objects can become. If the outside world dominates your thoughts with responsibilities, worries, and conflicting energies of all sorts, then your mind and spirit will not have the space to allow the creative force to flow and flower.”
― Donna Goddard, Writing: A Spiritual Voice

“Don’t miss the fact that you are not defined by your own definition, for to do so is to suffocate in the confines of small spaces.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“In the quiet spaces between heartbeats, love speaks the loudest truths.”
― Santosh Kalwar

“Some things will always remain unspoken between us, lingering in the silent spaces of our conversations. We will never be able to articulate the depths of our bond as words could never fully capture its essence”
― Shahid Hussain Raja