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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. Up until age 40 most men are just not as mature as women. So it makes sense that a lot of women date up in age a bit.
  • 2. Age is not important unless you're a cheese.
  • 3. Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others but keep after them until they're fair with you.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I mean the whole idea of movies was it was special to go to see – you went to a movie theater to see something that was magical and amazing in a very special location.
  • 2. When I go outside of L.A. no matter where it is really anywhere I go people will be stopping me or taking pictures or whatever it is. And it's great. It's amazing. I'm just lucky.
  • 3. I was about 14 and my friend's stepdad asked me to do a 10K with him because his son – who was more into basketball – didn't want to. It was amazing and I still remember the time I got: 48:23.

3 Anger

  • 1. Do not follow vain desires for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust greed and anger.
  • 2. Obama and his attack dogs have nothing but hate and anger in their hearts and spew it whenever possible.
  • 3. In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth and have begun striving for ourselves.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. As the third anniversary of the September 11th attacks draws near we must ensure our nation is prepared to handle the continued threat of violence and terrorism on our country.
  • 2. The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds – they mature slowly.
  • 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. Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
  • 2. Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.
  • 3. I think architecture has to be a gift.
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