"Architecture never derived its force from stability of culture, but rather from the expression of those moments when that sense of stability slipped."

-- Mark Wigley

#Bad Ass Quotes #Expression Quotes #Culture Quotes

“If you record things, you're going to find, patterns of things, and patterns are important, because you can then see the patterns form before it happens.”

Source : Interview with Mark Stavish, www.servantsofthelight.org. June 10, 1996.
“I went to the Brit School for the performing arts in Croydon at 14, picking music as my main subject, and I'm so glad I did. I knew lots of people who'd gone there, so I always had my mind set on it.”
“I really hate it when I can’t score runs from a ball.”
“It changes you for ever, but you are changing for ever anyway.”
“UNICEF is successfully giving children and young people all over the world opportunities and hope. Just like the ones we met on the Long Way Down - protecting them from exploitation and giving them chances in life.”
“You keep thinking that with practice you will eventually get the knack of enjoying superficial encounters, that you will stop looking for the universal solvent, stop grieving. You will learn to compound happiness out of small increments of mindless pleasure.”
“Literature presents you with alternate mappings of the human experience. You see that the experiences of other people and other cultures are as rich, coherent, and troubled as your own experiences. They are as beset with suffering as yours. Literature is a kind of legitimate voyeurism through the keyhole of language where you really come to know other people's lives--their anguish, their loves, their passions. Often you discover that once you dive into those lives and get below the surface, the veneer, there is a real closeness.”
“I lived in Meadowbrook. I went to church at Meadowbrook United Methodist Church. I went to school at Meadowbrook Elementary School and then Meadowbrook Middle School. I learned to dance at Meadowbrook Country Club. All those things grounded me in one place and I think most of Fort Worth is just like the area I grew up in.”

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