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Architecture of the nightClear architecture of the night, discerned with difficulty in the landscape... What hour- shaking being silent in the tower of darkness -death and life together devour them? Nothing untouched and healed. And useless bells...

Quote by Aura Christi about poetry, architecture, night, guilt, difficulties, solitude, dark, silence, heads, past

Architecture in general is frozen music.

Architecture in general is frozen music.

Quote by Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling about art, architecture, music

Archers are pretty focused.

Archers are pretty focused.

Quote by Geena Davis about concentration

One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach - of course - and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful.

Quote by Oksana Baiul about architecture, water, people

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools...

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about opinion, architecture, painting, poetry, man

I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or...

I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.

Quote by Catherine Deneuve about architecture, art, painting

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the...

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about architecture

The architecture of body, with cryptic meanings written in flesh, lymph and blood, in a cloister area of daily doubts and uncertain confessions. Dissertation on body, 2010 RightWords Translation

Quote by Iulian Boldea about body, architecture, blood

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

Quote by Arhimede

A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, ...

A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.

Quote by Guillaume Apollinaire about art, nature

The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its archaeological interest, but not always.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about nation, value, interest, world

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about experience

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have....

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Quote by Agatha Christie about husband, woman

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the...

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Quote by Agatha Christie about husband

My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at...

My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city.

Quote by Richard Ernst about teaching, city, school

I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the...

I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record.

Quote by Billy Joel about good, good luck

That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time.

Quote by Brian De Palma about pleasure, dream, being, time

There's an institution here called the National Sound Archive, and there's a character who works there, Paul Wilson. He takes a very special interest in the history of the music and advised Martin Davidson of the existence of these tapes.

Quote by Evan Parker about existence, interest, character, history, music

Galvanised into action by the second trial, I was...

Galvanised into action by the second trial, I was determined to change Britain's archaic sex laws.

Quote by Cynthia Payne about action, change, sex

The angels didn't get down from Noah's Arch, they...

The angels didn't get down from Noah's Arch, they preferred to remain a myth.

Quote by Ionuț Caragea about poetry, myth

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