Architecture Materiality Quotes

#1. Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.

Charles Caleb Colton

#2. A poem is a heroic act of integration that binds into rough harmony the chorus of forces within and outside the soul. A poem struggles to orchestrate, prioritize, cohere, and coordinate these potentially shattering forces.

Tony Hoagland

#3. The paradox is that God must destroy in us, all illusions of righteousness before he can make us righteous

Martin Luther

#4. There are two ways to go about it. You can take a compass and draw a perfect circle and make two perfect eyes as neat as can be. Or you can do it freehand and have some fun with it. Like I did. Give it character.

Harvey Ball

#5. When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera ... and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am happy, a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy, but I that make it sweet.

John Ruskin

#6. Lineage, personality, and environment may shape you, but they do not define your full potential.

Mollie Marti

#7. We wouldn't have put it out with the name Queen on it if we didn't think it was musically up to scratch.

Brian May

#8. [We] assume that social progress is like technological progress: one cannot uninvent the internal combustion engine, so how could one uninvent liberty?

Mark Steyn

#9. None of this is any less real because I am gone. Death doesn't matter. It makes no difference to life. We will always remain what we were to one another.

Nina George