Architecture is a social act and the material theater of…

For me, architecture is a social act.

— David Adjaye

Comics, as good as they might be, they didn't know much about performance. There aren't too many comics you could watch for an hour…

— Andrew Dice Clay

I think a theater show is a pure version of me doing my material. The theater crowd is a bit more polite, there really…

— Anthony Jeselnik

I've always been interested in combining architecture with a social agenda, and I really think you can invest and be inventive with hospitals and…

— Zaha Hadid

Architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment…

— Thom Mayne

But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and…

— Thom Mayne

Trade is a social act.

— John Stuart Mill

Music is a social act.

— Bill Callahan

Trade is a social act. Whoever undertakes to sell any description of any goods to the public, does what affects the interest of other…

— John Stuart Mill

For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial…

— Kenneth Burke

A design may be called organic when there is an harmonious organization of the parts within the whole, according to structure, material, and purpose.…

— Eliot Noyes

I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to,…

— Jami Attenberg

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity,…

— Alan Watts

All human activity is prompted by desire.

— Anonymous

[On Cantor's work:] The finest product of mathematical genius and one of the supreme achievements of purely intellectual human activity.

— David Hilbert