Monday, January 28, 2008
Famous Quotations for Today
Oliver Goldsmith
Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.
Alexander Graham Bell
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
G.K. Chesterton
A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.
Edgar Allan Poe
Sleep, those little slices of death, how I loathe them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
Henri-Fr�d�ric Amiel
All appears to change when we change.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.
Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, June 10, 1941
The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.
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Quotes about Architecture
Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:02:00 +0000
All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton
In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its functional ideal. In this romanticism, High-Tech architecture is, of course, no different in spirit-if totally different in form-from all the romantic architecture of ...] ¶ 3:29 AM
Here are the Famous Quotations ...
Oliver Goldsmith
Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.
Alexander Graham Bell
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
G.K. Chesterton
A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.
Edgar Allan Poe
Sleep, those little slices of death, how I loathe them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
Henri-Fr�d�ric Amiel
All appears to change when we change.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.
Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, June 10, 1941
The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.
More Quotes
Web Exclusive Quotations of the day
Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:34:00 GMT
Oakland Press - "Too often, where we need water, we find guns instead." -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urging the world to put the looming crisis over water shortages at the top of the global agenda this year ...
p0248 BC-TEN-AustralianOpen 3rdLd-Writethru 01-27 0991 (Hays Daily News)
Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:37:42 GMT
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Quotes about Architecture
Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:02:00 +0000
All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton
In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its functional ideal. In this romanticism, High-Tech architecture is, of course, no different in spirit-if totally different in form-from all the romantic architecture of ...] ¶ 3:29 AM
