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All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art like the art of fireworks.

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Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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. My acting career began at age three and my parents got me into it. I was in a McDonald's commercial.
  • 2. If there is anything I would do differently in my life it is that I would study business more. I'm trying to teach my daughter Chloe at an early age about investing and money so she's not afraid of it.
  • 3. I wanted to be a teacher. I love children so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven when I opened my mouth and said 'Oh God what's this?' I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait.

2 Amazing

  • 1. The really amazing part to me was when Florida made it into the Final Four the Democrats didn't demand a recount.
  • 2. Recently I went to a disco with friends and all the young people were saying 'Dudamel we want to go to your concert but it's impossible because it's sold out.' It's really amazing.
  • 3. My father opened a restaurant. It's so amazing… it's so freaking delicious but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.

3 Anger

  • 1. Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
  • 2. Whether one agrees or disagrees with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement it's easy to understand the inspiration for its anger as well as its impatience.
  • 3. Fairest and dearest your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear but learn that I cannot tell what you wish me to say without sinning against my honour too grievously.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
  • 2. I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society.
  • 3. The chances of a reunion now are less likely. I was thinking of having a 40th anniversary of the band but now they are really another band so it's all a bit weird.

5 Architecture

  • 1. A great building must begin with the unmeasurable must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.
  • 2. There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
  • 3. I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
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