"Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal 'cursus honorum' before its practice could be undertaken."

-- Martin Filler

#Practice Quotes #Lasts Quotes #Architecture Quotes

“As an exercise of raw judicial power, the Court perhaps has authority to do what it does today; but, in my view, its judgment is an improvident and extravagant exercise of the power of judicial review that the Constitution extends to this Court.”

Source : Doe v. Bolton, 410 U.S. 179 at 222, 1973.
“The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.”
“The bird with the thorn in its breast, it follows an immutable law; it is driven by it knows not what to impale itself, and die singing. At the very instant the thorn enters there is no awareness in it of the dying to come; it simply sings and sings until there is not the life left to utter another note. But we, when we put the thorns in our breasts, we know. We understand. And still we do it. Still we do it.”
“I was always a little adult. Even as a little kid, I just couldn't understand why I was surrounded by all these kids. I took things very seriously.”
“I had forgotten what sleep is like - a kingdom all its own.”

Source : Anne Truitt, Audrey Niffenegger (2013). “Daybook: The Journal of an Artist”, p.8, Simon and Schuster
“It's always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone - sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I read the script [of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency] and went, "I haven't read anything this good, in a long time." I thought it was absolutely brilliant. The dialogue is so sparkling, smart and witty. You also have these insane, crazy characters, like energy sucking vampires and holistic assassins. It's all completely weird.”
“There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.”

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