The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore it if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.

Clint Eastwood

The will to do, the soul to dare.

Sir Walter Scott

When I have come to you, at last (as I have always done), I have come topeace and happiness. I come home, now, like a tired traveller, and findsuch a blessed sense of rest!

Charles Dickens

Be happy with who you are and what you do, and you can do anything you want.

Steve Maraboli

We never shall have any more time we have, and we have always had, all the time there is.

Thomas A. Bennett

The Theory of Groups is a branch of mathematics in which one does something to something and then compares the result with the result obtained from doing the same thing to something else, or something else to the same thing.

James Newman

I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.

Daniel Defoe

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

Marilyn Monroe

Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'

Albert Brooks

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

Elbert Hubbard

Much Madness is divinest Sense -- to a discerning Eye -- much Sense -- the starkest Madness --

Emily Dickinson