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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. Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children and not for the education of all adults of every age?
  • 2. In a spiritually sensitive culture then it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.
  • 3. You watch yourself age and it's hard to feel like a sex symbol.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Obviously there's the seedy side of the strip club world and pole dancing. But pole dancing as an art form is really beautiful. It's been hyper-sexualized because it's associated with strippers but if you think about it just in terms of other kinds of dancing they're using an instrument to create these amazing dance forms.
  • 2. The really amazing part to me was when Florida made it into the Final Four the Democrats didn't demand a recount.
  • 3. Shanghai set out to take over from Hong Kong and I think it's done that. It's got the most amazing futuristic skyline which rivals and even betters Tokyo.

3 Anger

  • 1. Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
  • 2. I think that Scottish people like Canadians are often misunderstood and what I like about my Scottish friends and relatives is how quickly it can go from love to anger. It's a great dynamic.
  • 3. I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia.
  • 2. I've been sober for two-and-a-half years My children are happy. In August my wife and I will celebrate our fifteenth wedding anniversary. My band is back together with a sold-out tour.
  • 3. A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

5 Architecture

  • 1. I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music architecture novels and plays. Anywhere that hits you.
  • 2. I believe very strongly and have fought since many years ago – at least over 30 years ago – to get architecture not just within schools but architecture talked about under history geography science technology art.
  • 3. But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean.
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