Pierides Foundation Quotes & Sayings

Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings ... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better. — Leon Krier

For many Sudanese, it's for strength they choose to be Christian rather than Muslim. My mum was a Muslim but she became a Christian later. — Emmanuel Jal

There's nothing like undeserved credit to make you feel shabby. — Charlene Weir

I can hear him weeping but I don't care. They probably won't even bother to question her, she's so far gone. Gone right off the deep end years ago in her Games. There's a good chance I'm headed in the same direction. Maybe I'm already going crazy and no one has the heart to tell me. I feel crazy enough. — Suzanne Collins

Pictures artists staged their own images or copied or cut out others already in existence. The viewer took them in separately, in sometimes paradoxical waves: an original image, then the manipulations of it, then the places where image and idea intersected. This created a crucial perceptual glitch that irony and understanding filled. — Jerry Saltz

How bitter were
the Prozac pills
of the last
few hundred mornings — Leonard Cohen

What makes books - and with them writers - so dangerous that church and state, politburos and the mass media feel the need to oppose them? — Gunter Grass

They're just big in the eyes of the American public. — Eric Heiden