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“When I was a fireman I was in a lot of burning buildings. It was a great job, the only job I ever had that compares with the thrill of acting. Before going into a fire, there's the same surge of adrenaline you get just before the camera rolls.”
Steve Buscemi
“Flat-out flatness, the hard line of the horizon. I like the little towns with their handfuls of buildings huddled close to the grain elevators, like medieval towns clustered around their cathedrals.”
Gordon Webber
“Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts. Only then will their work be imbued with the architectonic spirit which it has lost as ''salon art.'' Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.”
Walter Gropius
“Buildings don't exist to be pinned, like brooches, on the front of bigger structures to which they bear only the most distant of relationships.”
Paul Goldberger
“I don't have any formula for ousting a dictator or building democracy. All I can suggest is to forget about yourself and just think of your people. It's always the people who make things happen.”
Corazon Aquino
“A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one”
Sam Rayburn
“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.”
Winston Churchill
“Why can't we build orphanages next to homes for the elderly? If someone were sitting in a rocker, it wouldn't be long before a kid will be in his lap”
Cloris Leachman
“What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
“There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.”
Colin Hay
