"And exciting buildings are fine periodically."

-- Minoru Yamasaki

#Building Quotes #Fine Quotes #Exciting Quotes

“The movie industry is brutal. It is dangerous. It is, for most, soul destroying. Creating art (music, books, films, etc.) can be beautiful and liberating, but trying to sell art, well, that is the movie business. There are few winners, and lots and lots of losers.”
“A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.”
“We all have a tendency to use research as a drunkard uses a lamppost - for support, but not for illumination”

Source : "The Unpublished David Ogilvy".
“Oh, you're one of those,' the princess said. 'One of what?' 'One of those who needs to be told their worth over and over by others. Do you know who tells me my worth, Phaedra of Alonso?' The princess pointed a hard finger at her own chest. 'Me. I determine my own worth. If I had to rely on others I'd have lain down and died waiting.”
“There's never any closure in an awe-inspired life, only constant acceptance of the mysteries of life.”

Source : Paul Pearsall (2007). “AWE: The Delights and Dangers of Our Eleventh Emotion”, p.27, Health Communications, Inc.
“Ghostly things don't really scare me, but they really intrigue me.”
“Consent in virtue knit your hearts so fast, That still the knot, in spite of death, does last; For as your tears, and sorrow-wounded soul, Prove well that on your part this bond is whole, So all we know of what they do above, Is that they happy are, and that they love. Let dark oblivion, and the hollow grave, Content themselves our frailer thoughts to have; Well-chosen love is never taught to die, But with our nobler part invades the sky.”

Source : Edmund Waller (1854). “Poetical Works of Edmund Waller. Edited by Robert Bell”, p.115
“Twenty percent? What am I, your waiter? I got you five vampires, not a BLT.”

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