Burscheid Quotes & Sayings

The more centralized the power, the less compromises need to be made in architecture. — Peter Eisenman

Your passion may be hard to spot, so keep an open mind and keep searching. — Condoleezza Rice

Even the most powerful of Dark Side Adepts believed that shrines of that sort existed only on Sith worlds remote from Coruscant, and even the most powerful of the Jedi believed that the power inherent in the shrine had been neutralized and successfully capped. In truth, that power had seeped upward and outward since its entombment, infiltrating the hallways and rooms above, and weakening the Jedi Order much as the Sith Masters themselves had secretly infiltrated the corridors of political power and toppled the Republic. — John Jackson Miller

What can I say? Some people want to fight their demons. Me? Well, I like to play with mine. — Bonny Capps

You will discover all that pertains to life by reading. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people I write about. — Anthony Bourdain

She had switched from counting her years not up from birth, but back from death - a grab-bag of time not growing, but shrinking, use it or lose it. — Lois McMaster Bujold

There are credentials for admission to our democratic society [ ... ]. You have to be educated in order to be a participant in our conversation So we are going to go right on trying to discredit you in the eyes of your children, trying to strip your fundamentalist religious community of dignity, trying to make your views seem silly rather than discussable. We are not so inclusivist as to tolerate intolerance such as yours. — Richard Rorty

Ickle me, pickle me, tickle me too
never returned to the world they knew
and nobody knows what happened to
dear ickle me, pickle me, tickle me too — Shel Silverstein

I sold my Chevron. I sold my ConocoPhillips. I sold my Statoil. I sold my ENSCO. I sold my Pioneer Natural Resources. I sold everything. — Richard Rainwater

Sometimes the greatest evil comes in the most beautiful of packages. — Marian Erway

In lighthearted countries, people joked about this phenomenon, but such serious, practical countries as England, America, and Germany were deeply concerned. — Jules Verne

It is reasonable to insist that when the government deprives a person of his or her liberty? and in this case for an indefinite period of time? that the individual have a meaningful opportunity to challenge the legality of their detention and challenge whether they are being wrongfully detained. — Jeff Bingaman