Bilbos Home Quotes & Sayings

Modern architecture only becomes modern with its engagement with the media. — Beatriz Colomina

One way to express the spiritual crisis of our time is to say that most of us have an address but cannot be found there. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

Some of us are so comfortable with bullshit that we remain in the
same fucked up relationship for years (The names and faces may
change, but the issues remain the same). — Darnell Lamont Walker

She found Nicholas busily engaged in making a penny spin on the dresser, for the amusement of three little children, who were clinging to him in a fearless manner. He, as well as they, was smiling at a good long spin; — Elizabeth Gaskell

A picture in a book,
a lynching.
The bland faces of men who watch
a Christ go up in flames, smiling,
as if he were a hooked
fish, a felled antelope, some
wild thing tied to boards and burned.
His charred body
gives off light
a halo
burns out of him.
His face is scorched featureless;
the hair matted to the scalp like feathers.
One man stands with his hand on his hip,
another with his arm
slung over the shoulder of a friend,
as if this moment were large enough
to hold affection. — Toi Derricotte

There is one act par excellence which profanes money by going directly against the law of money, an act for which money is not made. That act is giving. — Jacques Ellul

No one can pray and worry at the same time. — Max Lucado

I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton