Bernard Rudofsky Quotes

#1. I believe that sensory pleasure should take precedence over intellectual pleasure in art and architecture.

Bernard Rudofsky

#2. The first Monday's cupcakes had been elderflower, two days later and three tiers in honey and walnut, the day after that and toffee apple, the next cake- coffee and walnut, then banoffee, then chocolate and maple.

Anouska Knight

#3. For all other writings should point to the Scriptures, as John pointed to Christ; when he said, "He must increase, but I must decrease." [John 3:30]

Martin Luther

#4. I want to be happy; why do I do things that make me unhappy?

Paul Schrader

#5. There is much to learn from architecture before it became an expert's art.

Bernard Rudofsky

#6. I forget if it was the Mathematician of Alexandria who said that geometry is beauty laid bare or the Father of Relativity who made the claim for physics," Darger said. "She is, in either case, ravishing.

Michael Swanwick

#7. It's like a lot of things, said the smith. Do the least part of it wrong and ye'd just as well to do it all wrong.

Cormac McCarthy

#8. Poor, poor girl. All tied up and nowhere to go.

R.B. O'Brien

#9. Rincewind had been his assistant and his friend, and was a good man when it came to peeling a banana. He had also been uniquely good at running away from things. He was not, the Librarian considered, the type to be easily caught. There

Terry Pratchett

#10. They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life, do not on that account shrink from danger.

Thucydides

#11. Every man thinks god is on his side.

Jean Anouilh

#12. The closest she had been to them was certain summer evenings when they had gone for picnics in the magravine's ice-barge -- simple family affairs, just Freya and Mama and Papa and about seventy servants and courtiers

Philip Reeve

#13. If I may venture to be frank I would say about myself that I was every inch a gentleman ...

Catherine The Great

#14. For it seems that long before the first enterprising man bent some twigs into a leaky roof, many animals were already accomplished builders.

Bernard Rudofsky

#15. It's been a hard time to celebrate, to come out with a smile. But I'm an American. Naomi asked me to come out to support other Americans, and here I am.

Angie Everhart