When the old way of seeing was displaced, a hollowness came into architecture. Our buildings show a constant effort to fill that void, to recapture that sense of life which was once to be found in any house or shed. Yet the sense of place is not to be recovered through any attitude, device, or style, but through the principles of pattern, spirit, and context." - Jonathan Hale, The Old Way of Seeing, 1994
Jonathan A. HaleTags: architecture american-architecture building new-urbanism
Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.
Robert A. HeinleinTags: dicta architecture building megalomania building-industry cheops khufu pyramids
I left home and tried to live the life of a hermit, but I was still fighting myself. I went to England and worked as a chainman on the road. It was better therapy than the shrinks. Building a two-mile road gave me internal peace.
Brian StrangTags: inner-peace building cricket
It's creepy, but here we are, the Pilgrims, the crackpots of our time, trying to establish our own alternate reality. To build a world out of rocks and chaos.
What it's going to be, I don't know.
Even after all that rushing around, where we've ended up is the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night.
And maybe knowing isn't the point.
Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.
Tags: life living building construction importance-of-existence
The trail of lime trees outside our building is still a public loo. …where else are they supposed to go to the toilet in a city where public toilets are about as common as UFO sightings?” (pp.281-82)
Sarah TurnbullTags: trees building public ufo city toilet lime loo trail
I had the great idea of using markers to gently color the ants so I could tell them apart, but I learned that this is exactly like somebody trying to gently color on you with a thirty-story building.
Without dwelling on the tragedy, I'd just like to say that I'm deeply sorry to Mr. Purple and the surviving Purple family.
Tags: funny purple building ants coloring
Men were created before women. ... But that doesn't prove their superiority – rather, it proves ours, for they were born out of the lifeless earth in order that we could be born out of living flesh. And what's so important about this priority in creation, anyway? When we are building, we lay foundations on the ground first, things of no intrinsic merit or beauty, before subsequently raising up sumptuous buildings and ornate palaces. Lowly seeds are nourished in the earth, and then later the ravishing blooms appear; lovely roses blossom forth and scented narcissi.
Moderata FonteTags: empowerment gender men women self-esteem roses flowers birth building superiority priority dignity ornament
Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations.
Criss JamiTags: motivational inspirational truth future power death mortality encouragement discovery pride immortality generations legacy building
The city was dark except for the building lights that seemed to appear like sores - like bandaids had been ripped off to expose the city's skin.
Markus ZusakTags: dark building skin city lights bandaids expose ripped-off sores
The Bible talks about building houses on sand and rock, but says nothing about a brick house built on a blanket.
Nicole RiekhofTags: humor random funny bible houses building brick-and-blanket-iq-test brick-and-blanket-responses brick-and-blanket-test brick-and-blanket-uses
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