#iona

Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#based #basis #japanese #japanese architecture #need

When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

#because #becomes #book #french #goes

The faerie represent the beauty we don't see, or even choose to ignore. That's why I'll paint them in junkyards, or fluttering around a sleeping wino. No place or person is immune to spirit. Look hard enough, and everything has a story. Everybody is important."- Jilly Coppercorn ↗

— Charles de Lint

#inspirational #spirit #beauty

The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name. ↗

— Sylvia Browne

#call #fear #garden #keep #mind

I connect emotionally to these songs. I mean what I say when I say it, and that allows your audience to connect. That's the number-one reason why any music is successful, because you make people feel something. ↗

— Michael Buble

#any #audience #because #connect #emotionally

Osama bin Laden, the Saudi-born revolutionary who is believed by most Arab and Iranian observers to be the inspiration of the attacks in New York and Washington, is the best known of the Islamic militants to have emerged in the past 20 years and the least difficult to fathom. ↗

— James Buchan

#attacks #believed #best #bin #difficult

We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#chinese #country #get #heaven #into

Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity. ↗

— Wilfred Burchett

#identity #inferiors #made #must #national

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires. ↗

— Abigail Van Buren

#cost #could #experiences #millionaires #our

The national will is the supreme law of the Republic, and on all subjects within the limits of his constitutional powers should be faithfully obeyed by the public servant. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#faithfully #his #law #limits #national