"Other people sound flat to my ear; their words just hang in the air. But when my mother says something, the ends curl."

-- Augusten Burroughs

#Mother Quotes #Air Quotes #People Quotes

“Now our job, our duty, our responsibility to ensure the safety and security of our citizens cannot be complete unless we guarantee health care security for our citizens.”
“Grief is like manure, if you spread it out it fertilizes, if you leave it in a big pile it smells like crap.”
“Every time I have people over, I watch how long they look at every part of the painting, or pictures on my computer. I have a few close friends and people that are constants. Whether I like their opinion or not, I've been hearing it for a long time and I can use it as this constant. I mentally pay attention to how long they look at every image, which ones they pause on and what parts of it they look at.”
“The architect must not only understand drawing, but music.”
“In architecture and interiors, as well as fashion, there is an interaction that is both functional and aesthetic.”
“I have enough to think about - I just don't ever want to have to think about my car.”
“It's a disservice, really, when we put celebrated people on a pedestal and don't allow them to be human. It's a very lonely experience for the individual. It's not a sustainable way to live.”
“It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was what came of rebelling against the laws of Nature, Frederick and Pilkington said.”

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