"Most architects work in studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and historical research were irrelevant."

-- David Chipperfield

#Ideas Quotes #Historical Quotes #Criticism Quotes

“Michigan is very racially separated and the city of Detroit itself is 84 percent African-American and the surrounding suburbs are 86 percent White.”

Source : Source: www.finalcall.com
“The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War”
“I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world.”
“I was probably a terrible husband, but I pride myself on being a good dad.”
“I flicked on the light beside my bed, waiting for my breathing to slow, veins full of adrenaline from the realistic dream. A new dream, but in essence so much the same as the many others that had plagued me in the past months. No, not a dream. Surely a memory. I could still feel the heat of Jared's lips on mine. My hands reached out without my permission, searching across the rumpled sheets, looking for something they didn't find. My heart ached when they gave up, falling to the bed limp and empty.”
“Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle.”
“Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.”
“To be a saint does not exclude fine dresses nor a beautiful house.”

Source : Katharine Tynan (1928). “The Respectable Lady”

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