"The bottom line may be that my inventing buildings is, indeed, a very private kind of activity. But it's done to be shared. It is comforting and consoling. From the reactions I get I can see I'm not doing something strange."

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Peter Zumthor

#Comforting Quotes #Done Quotes #Lines Quotes

“After 'Kidulthood,' I was called in to a meeting and told that I didn't write women very well. I was very annoyed.”
“During the Obama years, the Republicans have done an unprecedented amount of stonewalling on cabinet-and-below appointees. I would also argue that their war on judicial nominees has been way beyond what went before. Really, if the president nominated God to serve on the D.C. Court of Appeals, Mitch McConnell would threaten a filibuster.”
“If you’re not in a good mood, the only thing you should make is a reservation.”

Source : "Top Chef Finalist Carla Hall Dishes on the Competition". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. February 25, 2009.
“Gratitude & joy drove them to do good works before the thought that they had to do them even crossed their mind.”

Source : Herman Bavinck (2008). “Reformed Dogmatics : Volume 4: Holy Spirit, Church, and New Creation”, p.243, Baker Books
“What is permissible is not always honorable.”
“I don't have to put on shoulder pads and run out there and let somebody hit on me a little bit.”
“The two policies that Ken Clarke is most famous for are his opposition to the Iraq war and being a very defensible and quite courageous pro-European. These are both policies he shares with us.”
“This morning I suddenly catch myself: I'm not there, I'm so lost in thought, I don't know what's going on around me. Can you think yourself to death?”

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