“ We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless. ”
- Minoru Yamasaki- Copy
- 181
“ There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel. ”
- Antonin Artaud- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Every two or three years I knock off for a while. That way I'm constantly the new girl in the whorehouse. ”
- Robert Mitchum- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one's belt buckled. ”
- Frederic Raphael- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. ”
- Ansel Adams- Copy
- 1.8K
“ To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world. ”
- Antoine de Saint Erupery- Copy
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“ The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa — slightly off balance. ”
- Prince of Wales Charles- Copy
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“ The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 574
“ All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before a single word: faith. ”
- Napoleon Bonaparte- Copy
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“ A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day. ”
- Andre Maurois- Copy
- 2.6K
“ True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice that produces beggars needs restructuring. ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
- 615
“ What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
- 430
“ Through it all there is order and symmetry and a vision of what the completed edifice will be; a vision of a perfect structure, dedicated wholly to the honor and glory of a great, good and loving God. ”
- Margaret Wyvill Ecclesine- Copy
- 2K
“ That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities-that sense of a family being like a kitchen midden: layer upon layer of the things daily life is made of. The edifice that lovers build is by comparison delicate and one-dimensional. ”
- Laurie Colwin- Copy
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