"Those who have made unhappy marriages walk on stilts, while the happy ones are on a level with the crowd. No one sees 'em!"

-- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#Marriage Quotes #Unhappy Quotes #Ems Quotes

“Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.”

Source : Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.
“I like the sound of my voice, doesn't mean it's any good but I like it. The joke is that "all good singers like the sound of their own voice" so we'll go with that.”
“You can't stand clutter, and you have an obsession with orderliness. The furniture in here is centered exactly on the walls; the files on your desk are arranged in precise corners. If I had to guess, I would say you are probably a control freak, and that is usually symptomatic of a man who feels powerless to control his own life, so he tries to control every facet of his surroundings.”
“As a good wine must be kept in a good cask, so a wholesome body is the proper foundation for a well-appointed inner ground.”
“Even today I meet people who think of me automatically as a tough, insensitive, coarse guy named Stanley Kowalski. They can't help it, but, it is troubling.”
“The parasite of art, the virus of art, never ceases to gnaw awat at your brain, never ceases to torture you with the knowledge that whatever you’re doing could be done more beautifully, more powerfully, more stirringly, more disturbingly, more deeply.”

Source : Brian Morton (2004). “A Window Across the River”, p.96, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I care more about making sure the story is correct and the characters are behaving in character than I do about the individual jokes.”
“In the present state of the world, it is evident that the control we have gained of physical energies, heat, light, electricity, etc., without having first secured control of our use of ourselves is a perilous affair. Without the control of our use of ourselves, our use of other things is blind; it may lead to anything.”

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