"Architecture is not about building the impossible, which we can do if we have enough money and enough tools and enough computers. It is about building what is appropriate and about attaining beauty through such an approach. I describe this premise as 'inherent buildability', and I believe it is central to what I do."

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Source : "Moshe Safdie: Global Citizen". worldarchitecture.org. November 21, 2013.

Moshe Safdie

#Believe Quotes #Tools Quotes #Impossible Quotes

“Using someone's name during a conversation was like a casual caress, like stroking their hair.”

Source : Harry Mulisch, Paul Vincent (1997). “The Discovery of Heaven”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
“Canada and the United States have reached the point where we no longer think of each other as 'foreign' countries. We think of each other as friends, as peaceful and cooperative neighbors on a spacious and fruitful continent.”
“I was 14 and madly in love for the first time. He was 21. He made me suddenly, unaccustomedly beautiful with his kisses and mix tapes. During the year of elation and longing, he never mentioned that he had a girlfriend who lived across the street.”
“I think Shakespeare got drunk after he finished King Lear. That he had a ball writing it.”
“Worldly ambition is founded on pride or envy, but emulation, or laudable ambition, is actually founded in humility; for it evidently implies that we have a low opinion of our present attainments, and think it necessary to be advanced.”
“I'm doing a little consulting. I'm somewhat retired, still a director of a company or two.”
“Children don't just get milk from breastfeeding, they get our energy too.”
“In times of death and famine, reason is on the side of the priests-who have their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion, invents them.”

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