Townscapes Quotes & Sayings

I don't want to be too harsh, but there's very little evidence for 'intelligent design' or any sort of creator. — Jose Gonzalez

If you are an ugly woman, you have no chance of getting a TV job. — Charles Barkley

When I look back on the townscapes now, they do seem to me to recall certain images of the destruction of Dresden during the war. — Gerhard Richter

We're all looking glasses, we girls, existing only to reflect their images back to them as they'd like to be seen. Hollow vessels of girls to be rinsed of our own ambitions, wants, and opinions, just waiting to be filled with the cool, tepid water of gracious compliance. — Libba Bray

You're only a victim to the degree of what your perception allows. — Shannon L. Alder

Every thought sounds like a footfall, Till a thought like a boot kicks down the wall. — Laura Riding

It's crazy to think that people can appreciate your presence in their lives not because of what you've accomplished or what they've gotten out of knowing you, but just because you're present. — Natalie Bina

I think the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don't work on it directly. Beauty in architecture is driven by practicality. This is what you learn from studying the old townscapes of the Swiss farmers. — Peter Zumthor

A lot of guys are free swingers, but I'm up there looking for a specific pitch. — Frank Thomas

As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor. — Barry Commoner

You learn just as much from your failures. Sometimes you love your failures even more. — Tina Weymouth

If guilt was an animal then it would be an octopus. All slimy and wriggly with hundreds of arms that wrap around your insides and squeeze them tight. — Annabel Pitcher