"The more centralized the power, the less compromises need to be made in architecture."

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Source : "Which are the world's ugliest buildings?" by Jonathan Morrison, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2008.

Peter Eisenman

#Needs Quotes #Architecture Quotes #Compromise Quotes

“Ann Romney... looked to me like a corporate wife. The stories she told about struggles - eh! It's hard for me to believe. I mean, she's a very rich woman, and I know that, and America knows that.”
“I'm a girl's girl. I'm a woman's woman. I'm a cool girl.”
“What most forms of Consequentialism cannot do is require us to act in such a way as to make the world worse, yet many of the objections to Consequentialism purport to show that Consequentialism requires us to make the world a stinking, bloody mess. The ubiquity of these kinds of arguments shows you just how unseriously many of the critics take Consequentialism.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“Moderate Republicans are reverse Houdinis. They tie themselves up in knots and then tell you they canâ€™t do anything because theyâ€™re tied up in knots.”
“Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.”
“I was intoxicated by the romantic poetry of our great writers. I arranged the world according to my private use, looking at it through the poems I had devoured.”
“America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.”

Source : Invisible Man epilogue (1952)
“For 'tis green, green, green, where the ruined towers are gray, And it's green, green, green, all the happy night and day; Green of leaf and green of sod, green of ivy on the wall, And the blessed Irish shamrock with the fairest green of all.”

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