Alvaro Siza Vieira Quotes

#1. Just because I'm a librarian doesn't mean I'm at all tame.

James Turner

#2. The heaviest snowfall in over 60 years is being reported in Beijing, China. To give you an idea of how bad it is, the army is now using snowplows to run over dissidents.

Jay Leno

#3. Tradition is a challenge to innovation..

Alvaro Siza Vieira

#4. An uncommon prudence is habtual with the subtler depravity, for it has everything to hide.

Herman Melville

#5. There was no such thing as a marriage with one happy spouse. Both must be or neither.

Sherry Thomas

#6. Every design is a rigorous attempt to capture a concrete moment of a transitory image in all its nuances. The extent to which this transitory quality is captured, is reflected in the designs: the more precise they are, the more vulnerable.

Alvaro Siza Vieira

#7. I read a bit of the Icelandic sagas. They're fascinating in that they are completely ordinary. The farmer will go off into the hills and fight a troll, and then go back and do ordinary things. It's an odd mix of fantasy and reality.

Jonathan Stroud