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I call architecture frozen music.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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 think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth – I only regret in my chilled age certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.
  • 2. At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers and at its worst an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.
  • 3. I could always sing from a really young age but my voice was really weird. I used to make my mum turn up the radio every day in our house. She was well into music so I got that from her.

2 Amazing

  • 1. It's so amazing standing on the corner -this happened in Washington D.C. – and somebody comes by in a Cadillac and you hear 'Manic Monday' on the radio and you don't even know this person and they're listening to it and singing along with it. Wow! Blows your mind.
  • 2. Motherhood is a dream. It really is absolutely amazing.
  • 3. I think Damien Hirst is hilarious. And I think he's a true artist. He's not hilarious first I think he is a real artist and I also think he's got an amazing sense of humor.

3 Anger

  • 1. I'm not as angry as I used to be. But I can get in touch with that anger pretty quickly if I feel my space is being invaded or somebody is not treating me with the respect that I think I want.
  • 2. Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
  • 3. Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want it records are made to be broken – it's only a matter of time. I hope mine will outlive me.
  • 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. The heart of marriage is memories and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns then your marriage is a gift from the gods.

5 Architecture

  • 1. The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.
  • 2. The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.
  • 3. Architecture is politics.
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