#vita

I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end, I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#am #architectural #architecture #beginning #beijing

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience. ↗

— Rebecca West

#experience #gulf #side #than #thither

Most producers I've known were writers first, and writing is a vital part of any game show. You could easily argue that the writing is the key ingredient that makes 'Jeopardy!' so great. ↗

— Randy West

#argue #could #easily #first #game

Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection. ↗

— Edward Weston

#before #composition #consult #consulting #deduced

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#adventure #custodians #die #done #fervor

Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#class #few #lands #other #other lands

The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable, believing an attack of major proportions will happen. ↗

— David Wilkerson

#believing #bomb #carry #city #fear

A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#argument #common #common good #component #credible

The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#also #century #complacent #history #humankind

In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that goes with that. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#enormous #find #goes #hands #haze