#ado

It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#advantageous #convenient #geometry #in other words #most

Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#architecture #arising #arts #formed #help

Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also fails, grasping the shadow instead of the substance. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#also #architect #assign #fails #forms

Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience. ↗

— Charley Pride

#any #entertainer #experience #fans #had

The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#deplorable #fashion #fragile #grace #had

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself. ↗

— Pythagoras

#all things #cloud #light #reverence #shadow

El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice. ↗

— Dan Quayle

#democracy #el salvador #heard #here #i

The interesting thing about my character Sylar is that my strengths as an actor seemed to go completely against the shape of a character in the shadow. ↗

— Zachary Quinto

#actor #against #character #completely #go

Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes. ↗

— Jean Racine

#covering #even #eyes #gloomy #hell

Adopted kids are such a pain - you have to teach them how to look like you. ↗

— Gilda Radner

#how #kids #like #look #pain