Ganek Architects Quotes & Sayings

Tighter than Fort Knox, baby. — Belle Aurora

You're using your headphones to drown out your mind — Regina Spektor

The garden is one of the two great metaphors for humanity.
The garden is about life and beauty and the impermanence of all living things.
The garden is about feeding your children, providing food for the tribe.
It's part of an urgent territorial drive that we can probably trace back to animals storing food.
It's a competitive display mechanism, like having a prize bull, this greed for the best tomatoes and English tea roses.
It's about winning; about providing society with superior things; and about proving that you have taste, and good values, and you work hard.
And what a wonderful relief, every so often, to know who the enemy is.
Because in the garden, the enemy is everything: the aphids, the weather, time.
And so you pour yourself into it, care so much, and see up close so much birth, and growth, and beauty, and danger, and triumph.
And then everything dies anyway, right?
But you just keep doing it. — Anne Lamott

Why do people build houses to keep the climate out, then cut holes in the walls to let it in again? I shall never understand. — Kyril Bonfiglioli

When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book? — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Many Canadian nationalists harbour the bizarre fear that should we ever reject royalty, we would instantly mutate into Americans, as though the Canadian sense of self is so frail and delicate a bud, that the only thing stopping it from being swallowed whole by the US is an English lady in a funny hat. — Will Ferguson

People are perfectly capable of ruining their own lives by very themselves without taking any wrong guidance from outside! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Heroes give hope. — Amit Kalantri

Louisa raised an eyebrow. Is he - how shall I put it delicately - a simple man? — Heidi Cullinan

Look. (Grown-ups skip this paragraph.) I'm not about to tell you this book has a tragic ending, I already said in the very first line how it was my favorite in all the world. But there's a lot of bad stuff coming. William Goldman, The Princess Bride — Cornelia Funke

...she basked gratefully in the warmth of her husband's love — Jun'ichiro Tanizaki