Quotes About Perspective Architecture

#1. My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid.

P. J. O'Rourke

#2. A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference.

David Almond

#3. A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

Robertson Davies

#4. If we don't build a company as influential as Google or Facebook, then we failed. I'm, like, perpetually stressed, honestly.

Arash Ferdowsi

#5. If I ever have a son, and if he wants to follow in my footsteps in Formula 1, my main responsibility will be to point out some of the negatives.

Jenson Button

#6. We are much too much inclined in these days to divide people into permanent categories, forgetting that a category only exists for its special purpose and must be forgotten as soon as that purpose is served.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#7. Man is a fire-stealing animal, and we can't help building machines and machine intelligences, even if, from time to time, we use them not only to outsmart ourselves but to bring us right up to the doorstep of Doom.

Richard Dooling

#8. I began to see new buildings, too, which were connected by futuristic walkways lit from beneath. Long, cool perspectives of modern architecture, rising phosphorescent and eerie from the rubble.

Donna Tartt

#9. Everybody thinks it's going to be different for them, Janice said. The dinosaurs thought so too.

Kathryn Davis

#10. I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.

Ted Stevens

#11. Did not pleasure depend on an architecture of perspective
on contrast and delay, withholding and loss? Did not true enjoyment rely in facing the future?

Gordon Dahlquist

#12. There must be something in the water in Minnesota because historically, despite its seemingly homogeneous population, the state has produced some of our more radical political thinkers, and its people have put their prejudices aside to vote for them.

Keith Ellison

#13. I once got a little camera to use for details of architecture and so forth but the photo was always so different from the perspective the eye gives, I gave it up.

Edward Hopper

#14. I didn't want to be a loser, but I didn't want to fit in at the same time because I don't like just being ordinary. So it's one of those situations where I always kept my head up.

ASAP Rocky

#15. Passion out of passion's obstacles.

Jeanette Winterson

#16. I think very early on in life we all learn what we're good at and what we're not good at, and we stay where it's safe.

Sara Blakely

#17. I look around with divine precision and gazing free upon the earth, I see -
- architects and earthquakes - empaths and robots - fictions and near misses - lives changing, children sleeping, beauty brimming.
I see us - trying on ways of being - so sweet and messy, so worthwhile.

Laurie Perez

#18. The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn't scare me at all. There's no reason why one should be scared.

Freeman Dyson

#19. We will have to decide today whether we will design the future or resign ourselves to it.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#20. Beautiful books, full of knowledge and beauty and ideas. All lost, thanks to a mad monk who, in the end, became a little too mad even for the church he served.

Jodi Taylor