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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. I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her I'd also be marrying her former life her past. It might be OK for some people – I don't want to judge it or anything – but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.
  • 2. What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties mental and physical but the burden of one's memories.
  • 3. I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I'm proud of the U.S.A. We've done some amazing things. To wear our flag in the Olympics is an honor.
  • 2. When it's over I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom taking the world into my arms.
  • 3. There are very few dance companies in the world and you have to be phenomenal. You have to not be injured. You have to have a really strong mind to deal with the dance world. People who can do it are amazing to me. You cannot have a life outside of dance.

3 Anger

  • 1. Fear is the only true enemy born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.
  • 2. Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards for they are subtle and quick to anger.
  • 3. It isn't enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger back into 'How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?'

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight dinner soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays I go Fridays.
  • 2. It was very hard for all of us. It's still very hard. The anniversary of his death just passed and every single one of his friends still after all these years… it's unbelievable.
  • 3. Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom wait until they have been married longer.

5 Architecture

  • 1. I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines.
  • 2. Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.
  • 3. No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
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