#al

The town caught fire in several places, shells crashed and burst, and solid shot rained like hail. ↗

— James Longstreet

#caught #crashed #fire #hail #like

Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, ut more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace. ↗

— Paul Virilio

#civic #decline #drifting #effectiveness #fall

Supply and demand regulate architectural form. ↗

— Adolf Loos

#demand #form #regulate #supply

Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side. ↗

— Adolf Loos

#building #changes #even #hundreds #improvement

Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art. ↗

— Adolf Loos

#art #arts #belongs #common #does

It does not do to use it with forms whose origin is intimately bound up with a specific material simply because no technical difficulties stand in the way. ↗

— Adolf Loos

#bound #difficulties #does #forms #intimately

I once witnessed more ardent emotions between men at an Elks' Rally in Pasadena than they could ever have felt for the type of woman available to an Elk. ↗

— Anita Loos

#available #between #could #emotions #ever

I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very good but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet lasts forever. ↗

— Anita Loos

#american #because #best #bracelet #diamond

I wanted to step forward and be on TV and for people to see who I really was. ↗

— Rebecca Loos

#i #people #really #see #step

Growing up with three older brothers and being the youngest and the only girl, my mom always made me tough. She's taught me over the years how to be a strong, independent woman, how to carry yourself in a positive way and anything that my brothers can do, I can do. ↗

— Diana Lopez

#anything #being #brothers #carry #girl