Annely Akkermann Quotes & Sayings

Everything man is doing in architecture is to try to go against nature. Of course we have to understand nature to know how far we have to go against nature. The secret, I think, of the future is not doing too much. All architects have the tendency to do too much. — Frei Otto

A kindred spirit? Perhaps
if not kindred to the man he is, or was, then to the sort of man he wouldn't mind being. — Doug Dorst

Corporate men and women, once divided by striking differences in opportunity for career growth, have come to share career chaos. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Sometimes I think if I had to choose between an ear of corn or making love to a woman, I'd choose the corn. — Sara Gruen

I get bored very easily. I find most movies boring. I go to movies and ask, "How do they stay awake making this?" — Paul Schrader

It is a magic book. Words mean things. When you put them together they speak. Yes, sometimes they flatten out and nothing they say is real, and that is one kind of magic. But sometimes a vision will rip up from them and shriek and clank wings clear as the sweat smudge on the paper under your thumb. And that is another kind. — Samuel R. Delany

Only the other day, Robbie had gone to a terrible disco in Alness, hoping it would transform his life in some way. — Michel Faber

Richard Kerry not only was a pilot in World War II, but was a civil servant. He did not come from money. — Douglas Brinkley

Sorrow fades," he muttered as he retrieved the last fragment, "grief dies, but Art lives forever. — Kenyon Gambier

Barack Obama has injected fresh momentum into efforts - stalled for a decade - to bring about nuclear disarmament. — Mohamed ElBaradei

Outside of monsters, meat is meat. Science is a powerful teacher. And hunger is a cruel mistress. — Lila Bowen