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 When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Architecture There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Architecture
Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Architecture "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Architecture
...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Architecture If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Architecture
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Architecture The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) 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 Architecture
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Architecture "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Architecture
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Architecture He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Architecture
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Architecture Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Architecture
Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Architecture History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Architecture
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Architecture I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Architecture
If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Architecture We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Architecture
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Architecture Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Architecture
