"Architecture cannot be understood without some knowledge of the society it serves."

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Source : 1948 An Introduction to Victorian Architecture.

Hugh Casson

#Architecture Quotes #Understood Quotes

“It was an American who said that while a Frenchman's truth was akin to a straight line, a Welshman's truth was more in the nature of a curve, and it is a fact that Welsh affairs are entangled always in parabola, double-meaning and implication. This makes for a web-like interest....”
“If everyone is special, then no one is. If everyone gets a trophy, trophies become meaningless.”
“'Fail hard, fail fast, fail often. It's the key to success.' This one I learned from experience!”
“Cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy,”
“When I'm creating characters, I definitely think of theme songs. Writing for me is very visual, so I sometimes think of it in terms of a movie with a soundtrack, and try to transfer that to words.”
“All her knowledge is gone now. Everything she ever learned, or heard, or saw. Her particular way of looking at Hamlet or daisies or thinking about love, all her private intricate thoughts, her inconsequential secret musings â€“ theyâ€™re gone too. I heard this expression once: Each time someone dies, a library burns. Iâ€™m watching it burn right to the ground.”
“If I were a lame only just for a week. I'd look at myself in the mirror and shoot the first thing I see.”
“It's vital to be growing through your life rather than going through your life. The object is not to change other people or situations; it's to do the inner work they stimulate.”

Source : Wally Amos, Camilla Denton (1994). “Man With No Name: Turn Lemons Into Lemonade”, Aslan Pub

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