Quotes About Victorian Architecture

#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. Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.

Stephen Gardiner

#3. Politics, as a practice, whatever its profession, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Brooks Adams

#4. Heroes give hope.

Amit Kalantri

#5. There is only one serious question. And that is: Who knows how to make love stay? Answer me that and I will tell you whether or not to kill yourself. Answer me that and I will ease your mind about the beginning and the end of time. Answer me that and I will reveal to you the purpose of the moon.

Tom Robbins

#6. The soul sees what the eye cannot,

Elizabeth Brundage

#7. If God gives you chocolate, you open your mouth, no?

Alejandro Jodorowsky

#8. Superorganism, ideas, and the pecking order - these are the primary forces behind much of human creativity and earthly good. They are the holy trinity of the Lucifer Principle.

Howard Bloom

#9. And an anteater plus a large hungry mutant ant? An ironic way to die.

Bo Burnham

#10. Your new kitchen should look like it was "born there." That doesn't mean it has to be the exact same style as the house. (You can put a modern kitchen into a Victorian, for example.) It just means that it has to complement the spaces around it.

Jamie Gold

#11. Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity by any novelist nimble enough to get away with it. There is, in fact, only one rule in writing fiction: Whatever works, works.

Tom Robbins

#12. The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism.

Kevin McCloud

#13. Yet the personal choice to smoke is ... the same kind of choice as the driver who downed the beers, and then the telephone pole. - Open letter from the tobacco industry, 1988

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#14. Multitasking makes you stupid - dumber than getting stoned.

Brigid Schulte

#15. I have not slept one wink.

William Shakespeare

#16. I see no virtue where I smell no sweat.

Francis Quarles