Devincenzi Architect Quotes & Sayings

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening. — Walter Scott

And your neihjbour is sitting next door weeping as she watches her child facing a crowd of Palestiniankids armed with rocks which could take your boy's eye out or give him brain damage if god forbids he took off his helmet one of those dusty stones hit him in the head — Linda Grant

He was the real hero, Tenzing," Gyan had said, "Hilary couldn't have made it without sherpas carrying his bags." Everyone around had agreed. Tenzing was certainly first, or else he was made to wait with the bags so Hilary could take the first step on behalf of that colonial enterprise of sticking your flag on what was not yours.
Sai had wondered, should humans conquer the mountain or should they wish for the mountain to possess them? Sherpas went up and down, ten times, fifteen times in some cases, without glory, without claim of ownership, and there were those who said it was sacred and shouldn't be sullied at all. — Kiran Desai

Just because it's true, doesn't mean it's believable or interesting. — Josh Becker

No identity is fully chosen by the individual, just as no identity is fully determined by forces external to the individual. This endless interplay between constraint and choice means that identities are necessarily dynamic, emergent, and contextual rather than static, predetermined, and immutable. — Julie Tetel Andresen

One of the first things to be noted in business life is its imperialism. Business is exacting, engrossing, and inelastic. — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

Honestly, I was just happy to get the work. I was chuffed to bits. I know David Furnish and Elton John a bit and I remember David talking very excitedly about it. This was going back four or five years even, when we were doing Little Britain at the Hammersmith Apollo. I'd lost my voice that night, but still did the show. I remember thinking: "God, they're going to think that's my voice and I'm not going to get in the film!" But it's just been a pleasure to be a part of. — Matt Lucas

Don't you feel as if you just loved the world on a morning like this? — L.M. Montgomery

Life is a mystery as deep as ever death can be. — Mary Mapes Dodge

She did not have time to wonder about his being late. He died bent over the sidewalk sign that stood out in front of the hardware store ... He had not even had time to get into the store ... — Alice Munro

the word humanism made me want to vomit, — Michel Houellebecq

We are now speeding down the road of wasteful spending and debt, and unless we can escape we will be smashed in inflation. — Herbert Hoover

God has so ordained and governed the Christian church that the cross has been the preparation for victory, and death the way to life. Such — John Calvin

So I never had trouble getting work or working or doing - I always worked. I worked when I went to college. I worked after school. — Robert Barry

Life is a bitter sweet journey my friend, a bitter sweet journey. — Luellen Hoffman