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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. The secret of staying young is to live honestly eat slowly and lie about your age.
  • 2. Credit or debit cards for starters are nothing short of shoppers' Novocain. Even in the age of digital purchases and virtual money we still attach a special value to dirty paper with pictures of presidents on it. Handing some of that to a cashier simply hurts more than handing over a little sliver of plastic.
  • 3. Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Lorne finally said Do the Blues Brothers thing. The response was amazing. People went nuts.
  • 2. Half a century ago the amazing courage of Rosa Parks the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.
  • 3. 'The Dance Scene' is basically the most amazing dance show in the world and it follows me as a creative director. You see how I maintain that creativity.

3 Anger

  • 1. Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
  • 2. Beware of him that is slow to anger for when it is long coming it is the stronger when it comes and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.
  • 3. Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue… and that for me is based on insecurity self-esteem and loneliness.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening May 15 1876 at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.
  • 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. There is no more lovely friendly and charming relationship communion or company than a good marriage.

5 Architecture

  • 1. I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game.
  • 2. The building of the architecture of a novel – the craft of it – is something I never tire of.
  • 3. Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.
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