#arch

Borne out of this, starting around the 17th Century was the Baroque era. It is my view that it is one of the architectural peak periods in western civilisation. ↗

— Harry Seidler

#around #baroque #borne #century #civilisation

This, then, is what counts: a lightning reaction which has no further need of conscious observation. In this respect at least the pupil makes himself independent of all conscious purpose. ↗

— Eugen Herrigel

#art #porup #swordsmanship #writing #zen

When I moved to Stanford I began to pursue the line of research I have been following ever since, namely trying to understand the larger implications of fractional quantum hall discovery. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

#began #discovery #ever #following #fractional

Everything I did in P.E. was just awful. Archery was just something that we did as a father/daughter activity, and it just kind of grew out of that, really. ↗

— Miranda Leek

#archery #awful #daughter #did #everything

In piano, if you try to force hitting this key and that key, it's very broken. It's not pretty. When you're in archery, you can't try to force it step-by-step-by-step. Then the shot doesn't flow and it's not a good shot. If you just let the performance flow, it's really beautiful. ↗

— Miranda Leek

#beautiful #broken #flow #force #good

What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog? ↗

— Bernard Levin

#contemplate #dog #equipped #happened #only

It was a show where you were given a quote out of current events and you had to identify who said it. I was reading eight newspapers a day and had compiled a file of about 300 quotes. I really had to do my research. The White House press didn't have to bone up on any of it. ↗

— June Lockhart

#any #bone #compiled #current #current events

I came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a very good research department. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#department #good #here #high #high standard

It sets its face rightfully against the doctrines of the Anarchist and the Communist, who seek to solve the social problems not by patient endeavor, but by brutal destruction. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#anarchist #brutal #communist #destruction #doctrines

I hope to live long enough to see my surviving comrades march side by side with the Union veterans along Pennsylvania Avenue, and then I will die happy. ↗

— James Longstreet

#avenue #comrades #die #enough #happy