Alison Peter Smithson Quotes & Sayings

In America, we have this bell curve of certain values. And then we have another bell curve of different values, which is the Republican Party. And they're out of sync right now. — Foster Friess

You are right in demanding that an artist approach his work consciously, but you are confusing two concepts: the solution of a problem and the correct formulation of a problem. Only the second is required of the artist. — Anton Chekhov

I think it's the things we don't talk about that make us old before out time. — Catherine Ryan Hyde

Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else has ever thought. — Albert Einstein

Don't be afraid of poetry. — Clifton Fadiman

Who had they been, all these mothers and sisters and wives? What were they now? Moons, blank and faceless, gleaming with borrowed light, each spinning loyally around a bigger sphere.
'Invisible,' said Faith under her breath. Women and girls were so often unseen, forgotten, afterthoughts. Faith herself had used it to good effect, hiding in plain sight and living a double life. But she had been blinded by exactly the same invisibility-of-the-mind, and was only just realizing it. — Frances Hardinge

A man's character became involved to the point that he was caught in a mental turmoil which threatened all the values he held and threw them into doubt. — Viktor E. Frankl

Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again. — David Mitchell

However important the struggle is and however much misery and poverty and degradation exist, we know that it cannot be more important than one human life. — Cesar Chavez

Most of my stories are ideas in action. In other words, I get a concept, and I let it run away. I find a character to act out the idea. And then the story takes care of itself. — Ray Bradbury