"I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc."

-- Isambard Kingdom Brunel

#Engineering Quotes #Design Quotes #Fancy Quotes

“One does odd things. You see, when one's young one doesn't feel part of it yet, the human condition; one does things because they are not â€œfor goodâ€; one thinks everything is a rehearsal - to be repeated ad lib, to be put right when the curtain goes up in earnest. One day you know that the curtain was up all the time. That was the performance.”
“Knowing where you have come from is important in forming an idea of where you want to go.”
“There's always been an assumption that ocean shipping coming in and out of the Great Lakes is critical to the economy. It isn't.”
“Every ambiguous, false, tearful, emotional exaggeration brings about that typically kitsch attitude which could be defined as "sentimentality."”
“Creative work, summarized: In the time you set aside each day to work your ***** off, ignore anything that makes you consider stopping.”
“The struggle to maintain peace is immeasurably more difficult than any military operation.”
“All large political doctrines are rich in difficult problems - problems that are quite above the average citizen's reach. And that is not strange, since they are also above the reach of the ablest minds in the country; after all the fuss and all the talk, not one of those doctrines has been conclusively proven to be the right one and the best.”
“Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'.”

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