"Any set of decisions about design is inevitably influenced by cultural prejudice, no matter how intent an architect might be to avoid it."

-- Martin Filler

#Decision Quotes #Design Quotes #Might Quotes

“Small, red, and upright he waited, gripping his new bookbag tight in one hand and touching a lucky penny inside his coat pocket with the other, while the first snows of winter floated down on his eyelashes and covered the branches around him and silenced all trace of the world.”
“The creative consequences of man's imaginative strivings may never make him whole; but they constitute his deepest consolations and his greatest glories.”
“I don't feel under pressure to work because I love what I do and I wanted to do the projects that came my way.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“For an Italian peasant a telegram from anywhere is a wondrous thing; and a cable from the terrestrial paradise of America is not lightly to be disregarded.”

Source : Howard K. Smith (1951). “The State of Europe”
“Writing is a fearsome but grand vocationâ€”potentially healing but likewise deadly. I wouldnâ€™t trade my life for the world.”
“I already had three strikes against me. One, I have light skin. Two, I'm from Miami, which wasn't getting looked at at the time. Three, I'm Cuban. But now, I've made everything that stacked against me into a virtue.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.”
“Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.”

Source : Barbara Deming (1984). “We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader”

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