Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Dixon

If I had money, I would like to get an old building, have music performances, do lithographs, have shows of paintings, and do those things that I'm interested in doing.

Cameron Mackintosh

An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.

Ben Katchor

I always lived in old buildings, and I thought about who lived here before. You'd have to be oblivious not to.

Mark Twain

Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.

John Osborne

Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.

Katharine Hepburn

People have grown fond of me, like some old building.

Rumi

You must lance an ulcer to heal it. You must tear down parts of an old building to restore it, and so it is with a sensual life that has no spirit in it.

Richard Moe

There may have been a time when preservation was about saving an old building here and there, but those days are gone. Preservation is in the business of saving communities and the values they embody.

Bill Bryson

To an American the whole purpose of living, the one constant confirmation of continued existence, is to cram as much as sensual pleasure as possible into one's mouth more or less continuously. Gratification, instant and lavish, is a birthright

Anna Wickham

Desire and longing are the whips of God.

e. e. cummings

The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being.

Arthur Eddington

The mathematics is not there till we put it there.

Steve Wilson

It's a very sensual dance. It's all about the attitude.

Jean Piaget

Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures.

Jil Sander

My approach has always been rather sensual.

Howard Nemerov

Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

A sensual and intemperate youth translates into an old worn-out body.

Berkeley Breathed

Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.

Blaise Pascal

I can approve of those only who seek in tears for happiness.

Camila Alves

I feel vulnerable in a good way. When I talk about my family, I usually have happy tears.

Carroll Quigley

It is not easy to tear any event out of the context of the universe in which it occurred without detaching from it some factor that influenced it.

Dennis Eckersley

Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears

Aleister Crowley

I've written this to keep from crying. But I am crying, only the tears won't come.

Alex Garland

Of course witnessing poverty was the first to be ticked off the list. Then I had to graduate to the more obscure stuff. Being in a riot was something I pursued with a truly obsessive zeal, along with being tear-gassed and hearing gunshots fired in anger.

Aberjhani

Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.

Cliff Richard

I involve myself in an organisation called Tear Fund.