#arch

Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#anything #black #cat #cellar #dark

She is incredibly fit, but we remind staff that she's not just the monarch, but our mother. ↗

— Prince Andrew

#incredibly #just #monarch #mother #our

The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years. ↗

— Michael Caine

#being #best #british #drunk #playing

I've just finished my 20th book this past year and I'm working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I'll finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get tired of the computer and tired of doing research, I walk 20 steps out to my woodshop and I either build furniture or paint paintings. I'm an artist too. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#artist #book #build #computer #doing

Rations were scarcely issued, and the men about preparing supper, when rumors that the enemy had been encountered that day near Gettysburg absorbed every other interest, and very soon orders came to march forthwith to Gettysburg. ↗

— Joshua Chamberlain

#been #came #day #encountered #enemy

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#ancestors #around #arrogant #classes #dead

First, this isn't about telecommuting, because we still have offices that people will come to regularly when they need to brainstorm together, meet with clients, or do research in the library. ↗

— Jay Chiat

#because #brainstorm #clients #come #first

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#buildings #our #shape #thereafter #us

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#eye #idea #no idea #outlandish #same

If a man were living in isolation his income would be literally his product. Make him the monarch and owner of an island, and the fruits that he raises and the clothing that he makes constitute, in themselves, his income. This ceases to be true when trading begins. ↗

— John Bates Clark

#begins #ceases #clothing #constitute #fruits