"I deliberately disregarded the right angle and rationalist architecture designed with ruler and square to boldly enter the world of curves and straight lines offered by reinforced concrete. [â€¦] This deliberate protest arose from the environment in which I lived, with its white beaches, its huge mountains, its old baroque churches, and the beautiful suntanned women."

-- Oscar Niemeyer

#Beautiful Quotes #Beach Quotes #Curves Quotes

“The aim of human rights, if I may borrow a term from engineering, is to move beyond the design and drawing-board phase, to move beyond thinking and talking about the foundations stones - to laying those foundation stones, inch by inch, together.”
“I do hereby assert and declare that in four years from the date hereof, every sectarian and religious denomination in the United States shall be broken down, and every Christian shall be gathered unto the Mormonites, and the rest of the human race shall perish. If these things do not take place, I will hereby consent to have my hand separated from my body.”
“Bad English was the second language of Israel and bad Hebrew, of course, remained the national language.”
“In life we do many things, say many things, but the voice of suffering offered out of love - which is perhaps unheard by and unknown to others - is the loudest cry that can penetrate Heaven”
“Love is the new denim or black”
“I think I got left behind somewhere, because, you know, I'm still a romantic”
“All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.”

Source : "Breathless continues to shock and surprise 50 years on" by Philip French, www.theguardian.com. Junuary 5, 2010.
“I'm a firm believer that all sports will eventually be global. Someday, we may have a quarterback from China named Yao Fling.”

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