"I design for the use of a building and the place and for the people who use it... the reputation for arrogance comes because when work is offered to me, I look whether I can find a genuine interest in quality."

-- Peter Zumthor

#People Quotes #Design Quotes #Arrogance Quotes

“Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your lunch money and slap you around.”
“I really enjoyed being a blonde. Men were more friendly and flirtatious. My face looked more worldly. It took the innocence away. It could be the new me.”
“Ministry, however, is simply loving the person in front of you. It's about stopping for the one and being the very fragrance of Jesus to a lost and dying world.”
“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.”
“Oh, SCULLION? Youâ€™re calling ME a scullion? What the HECK is a scullion?”
“This rule of silence is upheld when the culture refuses everyone easy access even to the word â€œpatriarchy.â€ Most children do not learn what to call this system of institutionaliz ed gender roles, so rarely do we name it in everyday speech. This silence promotes denial. And how can we organize to challenge and change a system that cannot be named?”
“Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.”

Source : "Diamonds, Pearls & Stones : Jewels of Wisdom for Young Women from Extraordinary Women of the World". Book by Barbara Warren Holden and Jennifer Read Hawthorne, 2004.
“The premise of 'The Originals' are places that have been open 50, 60, 75, 100 years or longer that are still doing it right that maybe a lot of people, particularly the younger generations, have not even thought about.”

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