Quotes About Classical Architecture

#1. I don't believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people anymore. They say: 'So what else is new?'

Peter Eisenman

#2. When you have rules to abide by, does that curtail you as a designer, or set you free? People think of classical architecture visually, but I think the brilliant part of it is actually spatial.

Annabelle Selldorf

#3. I was starstruck and completely confused; making a film of this story hadn't even occurred to me, and I hadn't written a single line of the book yet. I had no idea how this man knew anything about my book proposal.

Laura Hillenbrand

#4. Curing the negatives does not produce the positives.

Martin Seligman

#5. Where are you going?" Kaylin stopped. "I'm following you." "Which is usually done from behind.

Michelle Sagara

#6. No matter how bad things are, there's still good on it.

Solita

#7. Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction.

Poppy Z. Brite

#8. In many ways, Eulah-Beulah prepared me for literary criticism. After having a two-hundred-pound babysitter fart on your face and yell Pow!, The Village Voice holds few terrors.

Stephen King

#9. By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years more until Postmodernism was widely accepted and made classical motifs permissible in high-style building design for the first time in decades.

Martin Filler

#10. It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.

Wanda Jackson

#11. He looked like Bree, didn't he? He was like her?" "Yes." He breathed heavily, almost a snort. "I could see it in your face - when you'd look at her, I could see you thinking of him. Damn you, Claire Beauchamp," he said, very softly.

Diana Gabaldon

#12. Dresden: of all German cities, Smiley's favourite. He had loved its architecture, its odd jumble of medieval and classical buildings, sometimes reminiscent of Oxford, its cupolas, towers, and spires, its copper-green roofs shimmering under a hot sun.

John Le Carre

#13. But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean.

Michael Tilson Thomas

#14. No matter how far we come, our parents are always in us.

Brad Meltzer

#15. All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right angles that have dominated the building art from time immemorial.

Martin Filler

#16. You need some insecurity if you're an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven't yet started to think about retiring. I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.

Al Pacino

#17. Now I know that Wal-Mart's policies do not reflect the best way of doing business and the values that I think are important in America.

Hillary Clinton

#18. BE KINDER THAN YOU HAVE TO BE.

Aldous Huxley

#19. The golden section was discovered by the Egyptians, and has been used in art and architecture, most commonly, during the classical ages of Egypt and Greece.

Steven L. Griffing