Quotes About Brasilia

#1. If the embodiment of the fundamental idea of our age were to be found in Victorian architecture, in the Church of Cristo Re in Rome or the Church in Brasilia, in Moscow University or the Capitol in Washington, then our age would undoubtedly be called the 'age of kitsch.'

Hermann Broch

#2. We made music seated on the grass of Brasilia's super-squares, at home, at college. It was a creative time, more ingenuous, when the people amused more themselves, played more.

Katya Chamma

#3. They lay together in a sheltered place among the ruins of Brasilia while deathbeams from Chinese EMVs played like blue searchlights on broken ceramic walls.

Dan Simmons

#4. When I was a footballer, I surrounded myself with footballers. We were all friends. But in Brasilia you don't know who your friends are. It can be a dangerous place.

Pele

#5. You can draw any kind of picture you want on a clean slate and indulge your every whim in the wilderness in laying out a New Delhi, Canberra, or Brasilia, but when you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax. (Robert Moses)

Robert A. Caro

#6. The way people choose to think and feel about the world. Each ideology has its own version of the truth." "So, who is right?" Saeed smiled and looked into his son's eyes. "The one that is just and better still, the one that is just and kind.

AbdulKarim Al Makadma

#7. I'm not afraid to admit that I'm a relatively slow reader.

Kate Winslet

#8. I had good innings, as the British say. I wrote for 38 years at the top of my form, and I wanted to quit on a high note.

Annie Dillard

#9. I would not ever have her feel as though I needed more than what she could give me.

Maya Banks

#10. But the film in your memory, your cannot walk out so easily.Wherever you go it is always playing

Chris Cleave

#11. My father says you remember the smell of your country no matter where you are but only recognize it when you're far away.

Aglaja Veteranyi

#12. People are mean and hateful, angry - haters everywhere, stupid blogs.

Chrisette Michele