"We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single uninterrupted whole."

-- Arthur Erickson

#Appreciate Quotes #Towns Quotes #Medieval Quotes

“I don't think I am particularly funny. In fact, I know I'm not.”
“The vision shared by both [French utopian] Charles Fourier and Robert Owen was for an entire town to fit into one structure. Owen's design for what he called a "parallelogram" was essentially to have a whole city in one building, laid out around a huge quadrangle. Fourier's scheme was to build a massive Versailles-like structure that he called a "phalanstery." In both cases they had these architectural dreams that we now recognize as pretty unappealing.”
“Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.”
“I kind of fell into acting.I was very lucky.”
“I love comedy and I would write things to myself as an exercise in writing. I didn't do well for years, and I quit. I started to break down why I was afraid and started to look at people I admired, like Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Freddie Prinze, George Carlin and all.”
“I had no more alphabet than the journeying of the swallows, the pure and tiny water of the small, fiery bird that dances rising from the pollen.”
“We may never be able to pay directly for the gifts of true friendship - but pay we must, even though we make our payment to someone who owes us nothing, in some other place and at some other time.”

Source : Yousuf Karsh (2003). “Karsh: A Biography in Images”, Museum of Fine Arts Boston
“Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.”

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