Bulgarian Architecture - An illustrated discussion from Bulgarian Art of the synthesis of styles in Bulgarian architecture. An 18th- century renaissance drew on earlier wood-carving traditions as well as ideas from Western Europe.
"Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Architecture Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Architecture
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Architecture I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Architecture
"Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Architecture Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Architecture
If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Architecture The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Architecture
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Architecture Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Architecture
"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Architecture All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Architecture
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Architecture My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Architecture
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Architecture Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Architecture
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Architecture There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Architecture
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Architecture Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Architecture
Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Architecture I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Architecture
