ArchitectureHussein Chalayan I wanted to be a pilot, but I was always drawing bodies. When I realised I wanted to pursue something creative, my parents pushed me towards architecture. – Hussein Chalayan Architecture Quotes Bodies Quotes Creative Quotes Drawing Quotes Parents Quotes Pilot Quotes Pursue Quotes Pushed Quotes Realised Quotes I’ve never left China. My family’s been there for 600 years. But my architecture is not consciously Chinese in any sense. I’m a western architect. In northern architecture – the cathedrals of Europe and all the little churches – the details, the carving of stone, become necessary because the light is not there to help you very much. You have to enrich surfaces. The desert reduces form to its simplest nature. There is no need for gargoyles or flying buttresses in the desert.
Michael Servetus And because his Spirit was wholly God, he is called God, and he is called man on account of his flesh. – Michael Servetus
Emma Donoghue Identity politics are wearisome; you don’t want to go on speaking for any one group as a writer. – Emma Donoghue
John Donne As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there. – John Donne
Susie Dent What I’ve discovered is that from football fans to undertakers, secret agents to marble-players and politicians, we all are part of at least one tribe. By tribes, I’m talking anthropologically; these groups are determined less by genes and more by the work they do or the passions they pursue. – Susie Dent
Adrian Pasdar The best TV is always about family, whether it’s ‘All in the Family,’ or ‘The Sopranos’ or ‘The Flintstones.’ – Adrian Pasdar
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