"Diogenes said once to a person who was showing him a dial, "It is a very useful thing to save a man from being too late for supper."

-- Diogenes Laertius

#Men Quotes #Too Late Quotes #Said Quotes

“Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.”
“[Working with survivors] it's just a whole different level of concern and that is something that was categorically different working on this film than any other project we had done.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“In a fragment of a second you can understand: Things you know, things you donâ€™t know, things you donâ€™t know that you donâ€™t know, conscious, unconscious, things which in a fragrant of a second you can react to: we can all imagine why this capacity was given to us as human beings - I guess to survive. Architecture to me has the same kind of capacity. It takes longer to capture, but the essence to me is the same. I call this atmosphere. When you experience a building and it gets to you. It sticks in your memory and your feelings. I guess thats what I am trying to do.”
“You've got to have style, it helps you get out of bed in the morning.”
“I ask you to forgive me for not fulfilling some hopes of those people who believed that we would be able to jump from the totalitarian past into a bright, rich and civilized future in one go.”

Source : 2000 On his retirement. In the Observer, 2 Jan.
“As we fell in Adam, we are saved in Christ. To deny the principle in the one case, is to deny it in the other; for the two are inseparably united in the representations of Scripture”

Source : Charles Hodge (1872). “Systematic Theology”, p.121
“If I lose a billion dollars, I will have it back in less than five years.”
“In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it.”

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