"Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers's Centre Georges Pompidou of 1971-1977 - the true prototype of the modern museum as popular architectural spectacle - wound up costing so much more than planned that the French government solved the shortfall by cutting support for several regional museums."

-- Martin Filler

#Cutting Quotes #Piano Quotes #Museums Quotes

“Reverence to a woman in courtship is less to be dispensed with, as, generally, there is but little of it shown afterwards.”
“Even though I'm from the Midwest, the majority of my life has been spent on the coasts where being gay wasn't really much of a conversation.”
“Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.”

Source : Sam Levenson (2016). “You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson”, p.146, Open Road Media
“She would thump them both, and she would apologize to neither.”
“An educated person, I think, is one who not only knows a lot, but knows how to do a lot of things.”
“Only the small things in life are important”
“The highest level of creativity consists in being, not doing. When the being is intense enough, when the words are spoken enough, when the thoughts are thought enough, the doing will automatically follow.”
“Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.”

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