"As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown."

-- Norman Foster

#Past Quotes #Bad Ass Quotes #Design Quotes

“The main thing was finding this... voice that I had interest in, which I'll call the quiet-yet-stoic voice: the very quiet yet very strong voice that I developed, that people would want to hear and that was worth paying attention to.”

Source : "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 18, 2011.
“Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier 'n puttin' it back in.”
“All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law.”

Source : "To hell with Perry Mason". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. November 24, 2002.
“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.”

Source : "The Life of the Mind". Book by Hannah Arendt. Chapter: "Thinking", 1978.
“For me, Charles Xavier is a monk. He's like a selfless, egoless almost sexless force for the betterment of humanity and mortality.”
“When I recorded for Columbia, I could usually do anything in one take...I would invariably want to use the first take because that would be the one that was spontaneous and fresh.”
“We are at the point in time and terror where nothing short of a strong uniform policy of domestic disarmament will alleviate the danger which is crystal clear and perilously present. Let us take the guns away from the people.”
“So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove them away before someone can get it back.”

Source : Wally Lamb (2009). “The Hour I First Believed: A Novel”, p.50, Harper Collins

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