Mangialardi Architect Quotes & Sayings

I am as blank as a piece of white paper in a world with no pencils. — A.S. King

You know who we been living with for the past week? We been living with the only man in history who ever took a piece in the ladies' can of a Boston & Maine train. When the conductor caught him in there with his Winter Carnival date she screamed, 'He trapped me!' and that's how he got his name. This is the famous Trapper John. God, Trapper, I speak for the Duke as well as myself when I say it's an honor to have you with us. Have a martini, Trapper. — Richard Hooker

The road to hell is paved with careful planning. — Marty Rubin

Just because you are going to Heaven doesn't mean you have Heaven established in you. Success is Heaven on earth. — Bill Johnson

Not using fossil fuels is tantamount to not using energy. It is economic suicide and eco-manslaughter. — Paul Driessen

When you confidently defend fiction, think about reality also — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I loved the logistical reality of a guy who wants to take over the world, yet who has a family too. — Mike Myers

I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands. — Alexander Alekhine

My work is intensely personal. — Andres Serrano

With the passage of time, the consequences of any event accumulated, and left more to undo. And the more there is to undo, the less likely the mind is to even try. This was perhaps one way time heals wounds, by making them feel less avoidable. — Michael Lewis

Death, of course, like chastity, admits of no degree; a man is dead or not dead, and a man is just as dead by one means as by another; but it is infinitely more horrible and revolting to see a man shattered and eviscerated, than to see him shot. And one sees such things; and one suffers vicariously, with the inalienable sympathy of man for man. One forgets quickly. The mind is averted as well as the eyes. It reassures itself after that first despairing cry: "It is I!"
"No, it is not I. I shall not be like that."
And one moves on, leaving the mauled and bloody thing behind: gambling, in fact, on that implicit assurance each one of us has of his own immortality. One forgets, but he will remember again later, if only in his sleep. — Frederic Manning

You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. — Imogen Cunningham

A sovereign should never launch an army out of anger, a leader should never start a war out of wrath — Sun Tzu

That's the American Way - they need to give people an excuse to come and worship. These days, people can't just go and see a mountain. Thus, Mister Gutzon Borglum's tremendous presidential faces. Once they were carved, permission was granted, and now the people drive out in their multitudes to see something in the flesh that they've already seen on a thousand postcards. — Neil Gaiman

Longing on a large scale is what makes history. This is just a kid with a
local yearning but he is part of an assembling crowd, anonymous
thousands off the buses and trains, people in narrow columns tramping over
the swing bridge above the river, and even if they are not a migration or a
revolution, some vast shaking of the soul, they bring with them the body
heat of a great city and their own small reveries and desperations, the
unseen something that haunts the day - men in fedoras and sailors on
shore leave, the stray tumble of their thoughts, going to a game. — Don DeLillo