Bruno Zevi Quotes

#1. Read and write with a sensitive ear. The craft of writing is very important. Practice the craft.

Henry Petroski

#2. The city was dark except for the building lights that seemed to appear like sores - like bandaids had been ripped off to expose the city's skin.

Markus Zusak

#3. How short a period often reverses the character of our sentiments, rendering that which yesterday we despised, today desirable.

Ann Radcliffe

#4. We can bring into being, the things we dream. So much of what we are is, limited or expanded by, what we think.

Jaeda DeWalt

#5. Failure to spend the [presentation] time wisely and well, failure to educate, entertain, elucidate, enlighten, and most important of all, failure to maintain attention and interest should be punishable by stoning. There is no excuse for tedium.

Jay H. Lehr

#6. Among the planets of the arts, architecture is the dark side of the moon.

Bruno Zevi

#7. I knew I was right, which is a comfortable place for me, even when I'm really pissed off.

Anna Kendrick

#8. By then there had been other men. She'd flung herself at other closed windows. The windows never broke, but her heart, at the end, was in splinters.

Rebecca Makkai

#9. I love skiing, I love the sun, I love my children, I love my grandchildren, I love my family and friends ... and whatever I haven't done.

Donna Karan

#10. Songs kind of live in a timeless place for me, and since I make records I dunno, about every two-and-a-half to three years or something like that, it's just not enough to put all the songs that I have, no matter how much I put.

Regina Spektor