Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather Boa!

Free at last; free at last; thank God Almighty we are free at last.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Maybe the best programmers aren't those who spectacularly solve crazy problems, but those who don't create them, which is much more silent.

Lena Herrmann

There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Stephenson had large wrought-iron boiler plates available and he also had the courage of his calculations... The idea found its best-known expression in the Menai railway bridge opened in 1850. Stephenson's beams, which weighed 1,500 tons each, were built beside the Straits and were floated into position between the towers on rafts across a swirling tide. They were raised rather over a hundred feet up the towers by successive lifts with primitive hydraulic jacks. All this was not done without both apprehension and adventure; they were giants on the earth in those days.

J.E. Gordon

It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

William Shakespeare

I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.

Louisa May Alcott

If you have a deep-seated need to be loved and admired every day, you shouldn't be in politics. You should go work at a pet store.

Michael Nutter

Almost all people descend to meet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.

Jean de la Bruyere

Why now? Why not? Live or die, a man and a woman need love. There is a need in the race. We need to share. To belong. Perhaps you will die before the year is out. But remember this: to have may be taken from you, to have had never. Far better to have tasted love before dying, than to die alone.

David Gemmell

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.

Arthur Erickson