Quotes for All
If the submarines, the aerial torpedoes, the poison gas, the liquid fire, the long-distance guns, the hand grenades, the trench mortars, and all the other things injure without killing them, they are sent back again and again after being patched up until they are killed. Evadne Price
I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations – the director and the actors and the designers build the house. Eric Bogosian
When I’m in a city that’s just clean, concrete lines, I get really short of breath and confused. It’s much more interesting to me when nature is creeping back and tearing the mortar apart between the bricks. Feist
Writing is eternal, For therein the dead heart liveth, the clay-cold tongue is eloquent, And the quick eye of the reader is cleared by the reed of the scribe. As a fossil in the rock, or a coin in the mortar of a ruin, So the symbolled thoughts tell of a departed soul: The plastic … Read more
I think your life is governed not by the bricks or mortar around you, its governed by who holds your hand and who spits in your eye. David McCallum
There was a place in New York called Tannen’s Magic. It still exists. But back in the day, it was really fantastic. You’d go into the old Wurlitzer Building, take the elevator to the 13th floor, which was labeled 14, because of bad luck, the elevator would open, and you’d be in heaven. It was … Read more
What I resist is techniques. I find techniques very problematic. So when critics talk about my work in those terms, I find that they miss the condition. I am comfortable with the notion of pattern and ornament as a system of organization, [but] for me it acts as a textile. So it’s not about pattern, … Read more
Martin Luther King’s legacy is never to be measured by bricks and mortar, but rather by the kind of lives that we live, and the kind of love and service that we render. Cornel West
The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble. Christopher Wren
There’s a long-standing (50 year old) flame war within the field over whether it’s sci-fi or SF.SF has traditionally been looked down on by the literary establishment because, to be honest, much early SF was execrably badly written – but these days the significance of the pigeon hole is fading; we have serious mainstream authors … Read more