Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. Its like feeding a dog on his own tail. It wont fatten the dog. – Mark Twain
I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighbourhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Humor has become so cliche and boring that nothings funny anymore unless it involves something totally disgusting that offends somebody or makes them feel really uncomfortable. – Tom DeLonge
I see nothing for you on this earth but that field which I once christened Briars; go out upon that, build yourself a hut, and there begin the grand process of devouring yourself alive. I see no alternative, no other hope for you. – William Ellery Channing
In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its functional ideal. In this romanticism, high-tech architecture is, of course, no different in spirit — if totally different in form — from all the romantic architecture of the past. – Dan Cruickshank
