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"All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks." »Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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"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 the past." »Dan Cruickshank
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"This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire." »Voltaire
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"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain." »John Adams
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"I am the Roman Emperor, and am above grammar." »Emperor Sigismund
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"architecture, n The art of how to waste space." »Philip Johnson
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"The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman nor an Empire." »Voltaire
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"architecture is the art of how to waste space." »Philip Johnson
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"I call architecture frozen music." »Johann von Goethe
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"Would that the Roman people had a single neck [to cut off their head]." »Caligula (Gaius Caesar), From Suetonius
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"Would that the Roman people had a single neck to cut off their head." »Caligula
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"Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself." »Samuel Butler
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"It was a grand trait of the old Roman that with him one and the same word meant both honor and honesty." »Advance
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"Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals." »Henry Spencer
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"The job of buildings is to improve human relations architecture must ease them, not make them worse." »Ralph Erskine
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"In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions Commodity, Firmness and Delight." »Henry Watton
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"Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within." »Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Method of Nature (1841)
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"Heredity is a strong factor, even in architecture. Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma." »E. B. White
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"The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure." »Grayson Kirk
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"Since it architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music." »Friedrich von Schelling
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"[Of the parralels between the railways and the church] both had their heyday in the mid-nineteenth century; both own a great deal of Gothic-style architecture which is expensive to maintain; both are regularly assailed by critics; and both are firmly convinced that they are the best means of getting man to his ultimate destination." »Reverend W. Awdry (1911 - 1997)
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"The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people as equally true by the philosopher, as equally false and by the magistrate, as equally useful." »Edward Gibbon
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"The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to love, mad to talk, mad to be saved the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars." »Jack Kerouac
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"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved...the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars." »Jack Kerouac, "On the Road"
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"Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall." »Frank Lloyd Wright
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"Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall." »Frank Lloyd Wright
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"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars." »Jack Kerouac
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"It is folly for an eminent person to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected by it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defense against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph." »Joseph Addison
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"When you are at Rome live in the Roman style; when you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere." »Saint Ambrose, Taylor
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"When you are at Rome live in the Roman style when you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere." »Saint Ambrose
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