Quotes
Authors
William H. Prescott

"Architecture is, to a certain extent, a sensual gratification. It addresses itself to the eye, and affords the best scope for the parade of barbaric pomp and splendour. It is the form in which the revenues of a semi-civilized people are most likely to be lavished. The most gaudy and ostentatious specimens of it, and sometimes the most stupendous, have been reared by such hands. It is one of the first steps in the great march of civilization."

Source : William H. PRESCOTT (1873). “History of the Conquest of México”, p.173

William H. Prescott

#Eye Quotes #Hands Quotes #Civilization Quotes

“Rational thinking is an important aspect of human nature, but we have imagination, we have ambition, we have irrational fear, we are swayed by other people, we get indoctrinated and we get influenced by advertising.”
“Even when I write a song, lots of times I think - I wonder what my dad would think of this song.”
“I promise if you keep searching for everything beautiful in this world, you will eventually become it.”
“To subvert the tyranny of our execrable government, to break the connection with England, the never-failing source of all our political evils and to assert the independence of my country- these were my objectives. To unite the whole people of Ireland, to abolish the memory of all past dissensions, and to substitute the common name of Irishman in place of the denominations of Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter - these were my means.”

Source : Sean Cronin, Richard Roche, Theobald Wolfe Tone (1973). “Freedom the Wolfe Tone way”
“It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument.”

Source : FaceBook post by Giorgio Moroder from Nov 29, 2013
“In cricket, as in no other game, a great master may well go back to the pavilion scoreless.... In no other game does the law of averages get to work so potently, so mysteriously.”
“You're freaked out that you're going to be having a child, and once you're looking after your daughter, it's the most beautiful thing in the world.”
“I'm not an environmentalist, or a doctor, or a nutritionist.”

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