#arc

There are different kinds of humor, some is sarcastic, some introspective. Introspective fit my personality better. ↗

— Rita Rudner

#different #different kinds #fit #humor #introspective

As a songwriter I hate this whole, 'If it's a sad song, it has to sound like a sad song thing.' And that goes all the way back to my days with the Format. I'm an insane narcissist, so if I have to get something off my chest, I'll get something off my chest. ↗

— Nate Ruess

#chest #days #format #get #goes

I'm publicizing the book that's done. I'm writing the book that's in the hopper, and I'm doing a little advance research on the book to come. ↗

— Ann Rule

#book #come #doing #done #hopper

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome. ↗

— John Ruskin

#cities #dome #hills #him #little

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled. ↗

— John Ruskin

#architecture #beautiful #been #dead #ever

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it. ↗

— John Ruskin

#buildings #doing #duty #first #goodness

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel. ↗

— John Ruskin

#being #different #little #merely #modern

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder. ↗

— John Ruskin

#builder #great #only #painter #person

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#charming #differs #fact #feared #great

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#been #could #evidence #i #life