"I had almost forgotten to tell you that I have already been to the Parliament House; and yet this is of most importance. For, had I seen nothing else in England but this, I should have thought my journey thither amply rewarded."

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Source : Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). “Travels in England in 1782”, p.26, BoD – Books on Demand

Karl Philipp Moritz

#Journey Quotes #House Quotes #England Quotes

“What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness.”

Source : George Saunders (2014). “Congratulations, by the way: Some Thoughts on Kindness”, p.22, A&C Black
“One day the 'Maple Leaf' will make me King of Ragtime Composers.”
“I can pull a bone out of my shoulder and dislocate it”
“I always thought it was strange when these artists like Kurt Cobain or whoever would get really famous and say, 'I don't understand why this is happening to me.' There is a mathematical formula to why you got famous. It isn't some magical thing that just started happening.”

Source : "Our Hate Has Saved Nickelback" by Ian Crouch, www.newyorker.com. November 20, 2014.
“The tragedy of feminine design is that it receives so little official support. Most of the world's design schools, having been organized by men, encourage a masculine approach, even when they are run by women. Yet many designers who are male in the biological sense have a feminine approach to design.”

Source : Tom Turner (1996). “City as Landscape: A Post-postmodern View of Design and Planning”, p.132, Taylor & Francis
“The seed of sin is in us when we are born.”
“Americans need a champion and I want to be that champion.”
“When a captive lion steps out of his cage, he comes into a wider world than the lion who has known only the wilds. While he was in captivity, there were only two worlds for him - the world of the cage, and the world outside the cage. Now he is free. He roars. He attacks people. He eats them. Yet he is not satisfied, for there is no third world that is neither the world of the cage nor the world outside the cage.”

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