Alattehotte Quotes & Sayings

Architecture is shaped by human emotions and desires, and then becomes a setting for further emotions and desires. It goes from the animate and inanimate and back again. For this reason it is always incomplete, or rather is only completed by the lives in and around it. It is background. — Rowan Moore

Two of the greatest predictors of success are the ability to say hello and the ability to say goodbye. — Robert J. Braathe

The music
the making of music and the performing of music
produced memories, many good, some bad, some difficult. But he knew for sure that he'd spent too much of that time living not in the present moment of creating or playing music but in the expectation or hope of some reward, some success. He had always been waiting for his life to start when that happened, when the recognition came. It had taken him twenty years to realize how utterly wrongheaded that was.
It was as if the twenty years didn't amount to much, that he hadn't actually been present for so much of his life. — Graham Joyce

If wine is fruit, then vodka must be a vegetable. — Jann Arden

Most people are alive in an earlier time, but you must be alive in our own time. — Marshall McLuhan

By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers. — Norman Ralph Augustine

Simply as a writer of books I'm thrilled and proud that Seattle should have raised, on a public vote, sufficient money to build a central library, and moreover to rebuild every other library in the city: 28 of them. — Jonathan Raban

When we look at social media, we really look at it on a continuum, and the continuum is from accumulation to instant expression. — Evan Spiegel

As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together. — Edmund White