"There are two types of people, you see. One type keep their heads straight, and look around as they walk. The others look up - at the tops of houses, at the eaves and the lintels and the roofs, which can tell you when they were built - and I've always done that."

-- Peter Ackroyd

#Two Quotes #People Quotes #House Quotes

“I pretty much grew up in public.”
“I went to law school and took a law degree, and counseled all my clients to plead insanity.”
“Joy is a strength; intoxication, a weakness.”

Source : August Bournonville (1979). “My theatre life”, Wesleyan
“The car has made our lives more difficult. If not for it, we would have everything we needed within walking distance.”

Source : "The Other Wife: A Novel in Verse". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2003.
“You never can tell when a bad thing might make a good thing happen. I realized that good and bad were always there and always mixed up together in a tangle.”

Source : Ingrid Law (2008). “Savvy”, p.302, Penguin
“Richard Meier told me, 'Young man, solar energy has nothing to do with architecture,'”
“It's the risk takers that move the human race forward.”
“Millions and millions of exuberant monkeys are creating an endless digital forest of mediocrity.”

Source : "The Cult of the Amateur". Book by Andrew Keen, June 5, 2007.

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