Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.
Edith Pearlman
Related I'm not a religious person. But, when I look at a beautiful cathedral, what brings awe, what ind... JASON SILVA A bicycle shed is a building; Lincoln Cathedral is a piece of architecture. NIKOLAUS PEVSNER My eyes hurt... but there is something more... I can't stop listening to horror.... now I am going t... DEYTH BANGER Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON Hiding in all the thorns, there is a yellow rose. BEN OAK I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The building expresses in its original architecture and design the idea of a research and teaching u... DAVID GUTH It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself LOIS LOWRY Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING The things i know now, i never knew then. I wish i knew. SOTONYE ANGA I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... JEANETTE CORON She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING Today A woman is one who tries to bring a man down. A man is one who has to keep that woman in check... APURVA GAGLANI It is so fascinating that when after a hard stressful day we calm our mind and release the stress fr... GARY F EVANS... Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON Edith was at the forefront of the move to modernist design that influenced architecture and furnitur... BILL STERN Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now. KILROY J. OLDSTER There is BEAUTY in every1, every-thing, every-place.All of life is either LOVE or a call for love. U... ANGIE KARAN You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS What makes architecture extraordinary is that you're looking at the building, but your periphera... SYDNEY POLLACK How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... C. JOYBELL C. Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS Your universe is not out there. You create it every moment and every day with your thoughts, ideas, ... DEBASISH MRIDHA I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them ... MITCH ALBOM Horror as for me is the best choice, you can gain a lot of. I like to be afraid like to see this shi... DEYTH BANGER Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there ... WINSTON CHURCHILL This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in the glass and sculptur... MALCOLM MILLER The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of. JOHN IRVING When carrying the burden of problems and stress that life seems to endlessly hurtle towards us. We g... GARY F EVANS... To have hope in an age where hope is very scarce and hurt, jealousy and pain are more prominent is a... GARY F EVANS... Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy. F. MULDER To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ... GARY F EVANS... PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL NATALIE URQUIETA If you look at the Earth without architecture, it's sometimes a little bit unpleasant. So there ... PETER ZUMTHOR There weren't any problems before. But it helps in terms of setting the scene, creating a nice post ... GIANNI PONCET I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The developm... DONNA KARAN I love TV. I love being behind the scenes on a TV show but there's something about, I don't ... SIMON COWELL They may not know each other to say it, but it was never hidden. How much ever they hated each other... PARUL WADHWA Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM I think my faith is important. Being young as well, sometimes it's difficult, but I've got a... JERMAIN DEFOE In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music.... GARY F EVANS... Downtown Toronto is a very good place to talk about the neutrality of modernist architecture. I'... STEFAN SAGMEISTER The raising of a child is the building of a cathedral. You can't cut corners. DAVE EGGERS Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post... KARA SWISHER The building is a special place because of its architecture, ... But it's people who make it special... CHARLIE CHAPLIN Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do SOTONYE ANGA Life is beautiful. Live every day in the present. Be grateful for who you are and appreciate the wor... INDEPENDENT ZEN Journalists have sometimes looked to my Twitter account and quoted me from there, and that's fin... SAMUEL BARNETT One of the things I like about when I tour sometimes is that occasionally you'll see a dad there... TIM VINE It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing... HELMUT JAHN I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER I am pretty weird - as weird as in my videos. The only difference is Lilly is not a performer, and S... LILLY SINGH About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo... PETER LERANGIS You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only... RICK RIORDAN Anytime you're the creative force behind something and in front of the camera - we're not co... BILLY EICHNER The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is... BENITO MUSSOLINI We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives. THICH NHAT HANH Maybe there is no better novel in the world than Denton Welch's In Youth Is Pleasure. Just holding i... JOHN WATERS I'll get cast occasionally as sort of the jerk version of myself, and I have fun doing that. But... AARON SORKIN Our office is in pretty good shape, but the building itself had some damage. We're setting up a temp... HOWARD THOMPSON I see a really good tag on a building, a man passed out in the middle of the street, a couple huggin... BARRY MCGEE The struggle is part of your story but Everything will be in place in the right situation at a perfe... NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO When you're acting, you're escaping and hiding behind something. It's cliched to say, bu... TAMSIN EGERTON Musical chairs or Russian roulette? Sometimes there's as much tense drama in the casting of a Ho... RICHARD CORLISS I wrote 'Fight Song' as this declaration to believe in myself, and that is similar to what y... RACHEL PLATTEN I am very fond of Edith Wharton. She's quite high brow but also a great storyteller. My favorite... KEN FOLLETT It's made it easier to communicate important issues, but I wonder if connecting with millions of... JIM PARSONS Dedication is the preparation to success! WERNER BOTHA It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light. LAUREN LOLA In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to bui... HENRY WATTON That pervades CALEA and everything we talk about. This is something that Congress has been very dere... DANIEL SOLOVE That pervades CALEA and everything we talk about, ... This is something that Congress has been very ... DANIEL SOLOVE I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But ... I. M. PEI Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all els... CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to qu... ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Don’t let the enemy try to keep you bound with fear. The devil is a liar. Stay in faith and trust ... GERMANY KENT Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... DEYTH BANGER In response to a ridiculous statement by Edith: " I've gotta quote for you, Edith. --'A bird that al... ARCHIE BUNKER This authority stood steady as the cathedral itself. The building was raised once and for all, and f... ANDRé BJERKE Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. We get these overzealous young men and their girlfriends. It's happened occasionally where one o... CHRIS FRANTZ I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b... LYDIA MILLET I find the aristocratic parts of London so unattractive and angular; the architecture is so white an... IMOGEN POOTS There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty... FRANK GEHRY Any fundamental reform is a long shot, but there is no denying that the momentum behind the fair tax... BILL AHERN I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because ... J. C. WATTS There's a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, deli... NORMAN FOSTER Architecture is the beginning of something because it's - if you're not involved in first pr... THOM MAYNE
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