Turunnya Nabi Quotes & Sayings

When we think of the masterpieces that nobody praised and nobody read, back there in the past, we feel an impatient superiority to the readers of the past. If we had been there, we can't help feeling, we'd have known that Moby-Dick was a good book - -why, how could anyone help knowing?
But suppose someone says to us, "Well, you're here now: what's our own Moby-Dick? What's the book that, a hundred years from now, everybody will look down on us for not having liked?" What do we say then? — Randall Jarrell

Architecture is about ideas in the first place. You don't get to design until you have an idea. — Lebbeus Woods

Success is a matter of adjusting one's efforts to obstacles and one's abilities to a service needed by others. — Henry Ford

Oh, the holiness of always being the injured party. The historically oppressed can find not only sanctity but safety in the stateof victimization. When access to a better life has been denied often enough, and successfully enough, one can use the rejection as an excuse to cease all efforts. After all, one reckons, "they" don't want me, "they" accept their own mediocrity and refuse my best, "they" don't deserve me. — Maya Angelou

I don't have any outside view of myself, and if I did, I would probably be creatively inhibited. I just write in the way that I write. — Rachel Kushner