Burnz Paris Quotes & Sayings

The truthfulness of materials of constructions, concrete, bricks and stone, shall be maintained in all buildings constructed or to be constructed.The seed of Chandigarh is well sown. It is for the citizens to see that the tree flourishes. — Le Corbusier

Who confers reputation? who gives respect and veneration to persons, to books, to great men? Who but Opinion? How utterly insufficient are all the riches of the world without her approbation! — Blaise Pascal

occurrence - yet the rarer the event, the more confident these "scientists" involved in predicting, modeling, and using PowerPoint in conferences with equations in multicolor background have become. — Anonymous

A lot of people got in at the wrong time. A lot of people did very well and some people said, "This is it. I'll never get back in again." And they maybe meant it, but they probably got back in again anyway. — Peter Lynch

Women have been repeating the same mistake since time began: falling for a man's potential. We rarely see it the same way, and even more rarely care to achieve it. — Karen Marie Moning

Romancin' is verra important, ye ken. Basically it's a way the boy can get close to the girl wi'oot her attackin' him and scratchin' his eyes oot. — Terry Pratchett

I think about all the money that's gone into my piano lessons, and the days and weeks and hours. I have to get this right, I just have to, or else
I don't want to think about the "or else." Or else is a blank. A big gaping canyon. And on the other side of it is a person I don't know how to be. — Hilary T. Smith

I am a person of faith: I am a person who will believe practically anything on no evidence at all. — Christopher Hitchens

My mother took care never to tell me to do anything. She would only reason with me sweetly, like one intelligent, mature person with another. — Sylvia Plath

We've fallen into a trap of ever-widening orbits of contact, and there is a total disregard for the present moment. — Jerry Seinfeld

A city like Ankh-Morpork was only two meals away from chaos at the best of times. — Terry Pratchett