#arc

The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#artists #creations #events #great #historical

A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable. ↗

— Antonin Scalia

#disclose #even #happens #nothing #search

The Americans may think they have 'liberated' Baghdad but the tens of thousands of thieves - they came in families and cruised the city in trucks and cars searching for booty - seem to have a different idea what liberation means. ↗

— Robert Fisk

#booty #came #cars #city #different

My use of language is part and parcel of my message. ↗

— Theo Van Gogh

#message #parcel #part #use

Architecture begins where engineering ends. ↗

— Walter Gropius

#begins #ends #engineering #where

We watched the U.S. citizenship immigration services web site in March. They had six million, two hundred thousand hits, and two million people downloaded applications for citizenship. So what we're doing is attempting to help people in that process. ↗

— Luis Gutierrez

#attempting #citizenship #doing #downloaded #had

Royal Canadian Air Farce, and I was in three sketches there. And they wrote some really great stuff for me. ↗

— Trish Stratus

#canadian #farce #great #great stuff #i

Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me. ↗

— Kublai Khan

#matters #me #only #speak #stones

This loss [of freedom] means the fading from human life of values infinitely precious to it. The divergent use of individual temperaments can no longer find their various satisfactions in serious activities. There only remain ironbound conditions of employment and trivial amusements for leisure. ↗

— A. N. Whitehead

#leisure #modern-society #work #freedom

Thatcher once said that if she were a visitor from Mars required to create a constitutional system, "I would set up ... a hereditary monarchy, wonderfully trained, in duty and in leadership which understands example, which is always there, which is above politics, for which the whole nation has an affection and which is a symbol of patriotism. ↗

— Sally Bedell Smith

#margaret-thatcher #monarchy #queen-elizabeth-ii #the-queen #leadership