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A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

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Imagination,

Author:

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Category: Imagination

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. True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
  • 2. No no I was only funny on stage really. I I think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know when I was a child up to about the age of 12.
  • 3. I don't mind my age.

2 Amazing

  • 1. People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.
  • 2. People like Frank Zappa were amazing for us Brits.
  • 3. Voice-acting on the fun meter is off the scale. You show up you don't have to be all primped up or dressed up. And you get to work with some amazing people and goof off for four hours.

3 Anger

  • 1. I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work and for the work I might be capable of.
  • 2. I know to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
  • 3. Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
  • 2. I didn't make my first solo record until 1981 so I don't have any 60's or 70's recordings but I am working on a large boxed set called DUST to be released next year the 20th anniversary of my first solo record.
  • 3. Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

5 Architecture

  • 1. The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
  • 2. Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.
  • 3. Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.
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