Brandhuber Architects Quotes & Sayings

I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream. — Mark Strand

What I love about my work is the variety and not knowing what's coming next, and being able to embrace something for a period of time and know something new is going to follow. — Rose McIver

Writing stories is the habit of lying put to good use. — Julianna Baggott

The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline. — Bum Phillips

Power is the ability to affect others to get the outcomes you want, and that can be done by coercion, payment or attraction. — Joseph Nye

Literature gives me life, and life kills me. Well, life kills everyone. — Rabih Alameddine

You are going to change the world, because that is actually what the world is. You do not pass through this life, it passes through you. You experience it, you interpret it, you act, and then it is different. That happens constantly. You are changing the world. You always have been. — Joss Whedon

'The Squickerwonkers' was the story I wrote when I was on 'The Hobbit.' And I brought it to Comic-Con and sold out a thousand copies I had printed. — Evangeline Lilly

It was long past time to change the subject. "The boy playing the bagpipes is really good," Prudie said.
If only she'd said it in French! Trey made a delighted noise. "Nessa Trussler. A girl. Or something."
Prudie looked at Nessa again. There was, she could see now, a certain plump ambiguity. Maybe Trey wouldn't tell anyone what she'd said. Maybe Nessa was perfectly comfortable with who she was. Maybe she was admired throughout the school for her musical ability. Maybe pigs could jig. — Karen Joy Fowler

Everyone expects us to be assholes nowadays. I think we've let them down. We're regular dudes and dorky kids. Success doesn't mean you have to change. — Mikey Way

With two thousand years of Christianity behind him ... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Pretending that something doesn't exist if it's hard to quantify leads to faulty models. You've already seen the system trap that comes from setting goals around what is easily measured, rather than around what is important. So — Donella H. Meadows