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We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us.

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Winston Churchill
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Category: Architecture

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body the mind and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise study and love.
  • 2. I'm 20 years old. I like to party as much as anyone my age. Going clubbing is my way of relaxing or releasing a lot of stress. I don't feel that I should have to justify that part of my life. I don't know that I'm necessarily an addict.
  • 3. Middle age is youth without levity and age without decay.

2 Amazing

  • 1. You would be amazed what the ordinary guy knows.
  • 2. It's odd because I used to see pictures on telly or wherever of what I now know to be Shaftesbury Avenue and I used to wonder what that amazing street with all the lights was. Well now I know. I think when you get a wee taste of something it maybe isn't what you thought it was.
  • 3. I love vintage shopping I think it's really fun. And I love the feeling of finding the most amazing piece for less.

3 Anger

  • 1. Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger there the sweetest pain here consuming hatred there the childlike smile of serene humility.
  • 2. I want to express myself to feel that what I feel is real. My joy my pain my anger.
  • 3. Anger becomes limiting restricting. You can't see through it. While anger is there look at that too. But after a while you have to look at something else.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.
  • 2. Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls with whom they make up a sole family – a domestic church.
  • 3. The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds – they mature slowly.

5 Architecture

  • 1. I don't believe in morality in architecture.
  • 2. Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.
  • 3. When I'm in London Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary.
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