"When the old way of seeing was displaced, a hollowness came into architecture. Our buildings show a constant effort to fill that void, to recapture that sense of life which was once to be found in any house or shed. Yet the sense of place is not to be recovered through any attitude, device, or style, but through the principles of pattern, spirit, and context."

-- Jonathan Hale

#Attitude Quotes #House Quotes #Effort Quotes

“I still believe that everyone is beautiful in some way and by seeing the beauty in others we make ourselves more beautiful.”
“George Hamilton is one of the funniest men I have ever known.”
“The core character of Victorians is one of aspiration and ambition, and Victorians have, since first settlement days... demonstrated that core character over and over again.”
“Would a watermelon in the midst of a chase sequence not be, in its own organic way, emblematic of our entire misunderstood enterprise? At once totally logical and perfectly irrational?”
“Sincerity, even if it speaks with a stutter, will sound eloquent when inspired.”

Source : Eiji Yoshikawa (2000). “Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan”, p.256, Kodansha International
“I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If you're in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s.”
“Time after time, on matters great and small, we are still standing on the sidelines, mutely accepting what is decided elsewhere instead of raising our voices and making our own choices. Scotland's much vaunted partnership of Jonah and the whale.”

Source : Quoted in Michael Russell (ed) Stop the World: The Autobiography of Winnie Ewing (2004).
“It's my job to spread deviance to the American youth.”

Source : FaceBook post by Rose McGowan from Aug 23, 2013

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