"The skyscraper style first advocated by Louis Sullivan - a tower of strongly vertical character with clear definitions among base, shaft, and crown - has remained remarkably consistent throughout the history of this building type."

-- Martin Filler

#Character Quotes #Style Quotes #Towers Quotes

“Doubt is faith's shadow.”
“Stress comes from knowing what is right and doing what is wrong”

Source : Larry Winget (2011). “Shut Up, Stop Whining, and Get a Life: A Kick-Butt Approach to a Better Life”, p.241, John Wiley & Sons
“I felt I had nothing more to say. Everything would have had to be a replay of the previous two or three albums, and that decided me to stop. What bothered me most was not playing guitar at all anymore. I felt I had no more contact with the instrument. It was just a piece of wood to me. I even thought music had definitely left me. After fourteen albums, there may be an overload phase, a sort of lassitude.”
“A film is the director's medium. The theater is an actor's.”
“When we are young, we think life will be like a supo: one fabric, one weave, one grand design. But in truth, life turns out to be more like the patchwork cloths-bits and pieces, odds and ends-people, places, things we never expected, never wanted, perhaps.”

Source : Alan Brennert (2009). “Honolulu”, p.11, Macmillan
“It is always so, every pleasure comes exactly half an hour too late - Life! Life!”

Source : Emily Eden (1860). “The Semi-detached House”, p.174
“I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft - a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less.”

Source : "Unix and Beyond: An Interview with Ken Thompson". Computer 32 (5), (pp. 58-64), May 1999.
“And you know, I'm so used to going 100 miles an hour in every direction and sleeping you know, two, three hours a night, and that's the way I live.”

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