Ezra Pound - Quotes

 A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit. 

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William S. Burroughs - Quotes

 Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.  

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Mark Mirabello - Quotes

 In modern states, the citizen is politically impotent. A citizen, it is true, may complain, make suggestions, or cause disruptions, but in the ancient world these were privileges that belonged to any slave. 

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The Men Who Stare at Goats - Quotes

 General Brown:
So they started doing psy-research because they thought we were doing psy-research, when in fact we weren't doing psy-research?
Brigadier General Dean Hopgood:
Yes sir. But now that they *are* doing psy-research, we're gonna have to do psy-research, sir. [leans forward]
Brigadier General Dean Hopgood:
We can't afford to have the Russian's leading the field in the paranormal.
 

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Extreme Measures - Quotes

 Dr. Guy Luthan:
[is speaking on phone] Judith, it's Guy. Listen. I've been shot. Listen, they're hijacking people from the hospital and using them as some sort of research... I'm pretty sure that's what Triphase is, it's a kind of research program and someone at Grammercy is working for them! Listen, there's a cop, called Stone, call him, he might believe me, Judith please pick up...
 

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Tom McDonough - Quotes

 We must change life,' the poet [Rimbaud] had written, and so the Situationists set out to transform everyday life in the modern world through a comprehensive program that included above all else the construction of 'situations' -- defined in 1958 as moments of life 'concretely and deliberately constructed by the collective organization of a unitary ambiance and a play of events' -- but that also necessary entailed the supersession of philosophy, the realization of art, the abolition of politics, and the fall of the 'spectacle-commodity economy. 

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Ursula K. Le Guin - Quotes

 It is our suffering that brings us together. It is not love. Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate when forced. The bond that binds us is beyond choice. We are brothers. We are brothers in what we share. In pain, which each of us must suffer alone, in hunger, in poverty, in hope, we know our brotherhood. We know it, because we have had to learn it. We know that there is no help for us but from one another, that no hand will save us if we do not reach out our hand. And the hand that you reach out is empty, as mine is. You have nothing. You possess nothing. You own nothing. You are free. All you have is what you are, and what you give. 

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Ursula K. Le Guin - Quotes

 The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself. 

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The Royal Tenenbaums - Quotes

 Raleigh:
[after reading a private investigator's research on Margot background, which includes being adopted, a previous marriage, several one-night stands with other men, and a lesbian affair] So, she smokes.
 

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Event Horizon - Quotes

 Dr. Weir:
What was made public about the Event Horizon - that she was a deep space research vessel, that her reactor went critical, and that the ship blew up - none of that is true. The Event Horizon is the culmination of a secret government project to create a spacecraft capable of faster-than-light flight.
Smith:
Uhm, excuse me. See, you can't actually do that.
 

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Frank Beddor - Quotes

 And even, if circumstances required, a contingency plan for his contingency plan's contingency plan. 

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Louis Aragon - Quotes

 No more painters, no more writers, no more musicians, no more sculptors, no more religions, no more republicans, no more royalists, no more imperialists, no more anarchists, no more socialists, no more Bolsheviks, no more aristocrats, no more armaments, no more police, no more countries, enough of these imbecilities, no more, no more, no more, no more, no more 

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Rebecca Solnit - Quotes

 Walkers are 'practitioners of the city,' for the city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of possibilities, and walking is the act of speaking that language, of selecting from those possibilities. Just as language limits what can be said, architecture limits where one can walk, but the walker invents other ways to go. 

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Ursula K. Le Guin - Quotes

 How does one hate a country, or love one? [...] I lack the trick of it. I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain ploughland in the hills; but what is the sense in giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? 

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Alain De Botton - Quotes

 Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design. It is an example expressed through materials of the same tendencies which in other domains will lead us to marry the wrong people, choose inappropriate jobs and book unsuccessful holidays: the tendency not to understand who we are and what will satisfy us. 

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Cornel West - Quotes

 I grew up in traditional black patriarchal culture and there is no doubt that I 

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The Stepford Wives - Quotes

 Claire Wellington:
I was the world's foremost brain surgeon and genetic engineer. I had top-secret contracts with the Pentagon, Apple and Mattel. I was driven. Exhausted. Until late one night, I came home to find... [stunned]
Claire Wellington:
Mike... with Patricia. My brilliant... blond... 21-year-old research assistant. It was all so... [in a deep manly voice]
Claire Wellington:
... ugly. [Continues in a disconnectedly happy voice]
Claire Wellington:
Then early the next morning, as I gazed across the breakfast table at their lifeless bodies, I thought... "What have I done?" But more importantly... what could I do to make the world more beautiful?
 

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Halo - Quotes

 
[the Master Chief plugs the AI Cortana into his MJOLNIR armor memory matrix]
Cortana:
Hmm. Your architecture is a quite similar the Autumn's.
The Master Chief:
Don't get any funny ideas.
 

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Wishmaster - Quotes

 Alexandra Amberson:
Where's Wendy?
The Djinn:
Bedroom. But I wouldn't go in there if I were you. Messy. I needed her face.
Alexandra Amberson:
You killed her.
The Djinn:
Actually, I can't kill anyone. Not unless they wish me to. Your research should have told you that.
Alexandra Amberson:
She didn't wish to be dead, you lying sack of shit!
The Djinn:
I showed her my true face. Her reaction wasn't very flattering. As a matter of fact, she got downright hysterical! I merely asked if she wished to be released from her fear. You're a dangerous person to know, Alexandra. Your scientist friend, your boss, the policeman, Wendy. By the by-where is that tasty little sister of yours today? [licks upper lip slowly]
 

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Elk Hotel - Quotes

 Carrie:
The architecture is supercool!
 

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Ursula K. Le Guin - Quotes

 What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice. 

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SLC Punk! - Quotes

 Stevo:
Posers were people who looked like punks but they did it for fashion. And they were fools, they'd say "anarchy in the UK." What the fuck's that? Anarchy in the UK. What good is that to those of us in Utah, America? It was a Sex Pistols thing. They were British, they were allowed to go on about Anarchy in the UK. You don't live your life by lyrics.
 

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Anne Rice - Quotes

 No one is safe from nature's savagery,not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent.

Gabrielle envisions a time when the Savage Garden will overtake civilizations and destroy it.

 

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Tom McDonough - Quotes

 We leave to monsieur Le Corbusier his style that suits factories as well as it does hospitals. And the prisons of the future: is he not already building churches? I do not know what this individual -- ugly of countenance and hideous in his conceptions of the world -- is repressing to make him want thus to crush humanity under ignoble heaps of reinforced concrete, a noble material that ought to permit an aerial articulation of space superior to Flamboyant Gothic. His power of cretinization is vast. A model by Corbusier is the only image that brings to my mind the idea of immediate suicide. With him moreover any remaining job will fade. And love -- passion -- liberty.



Gilles Ivain (aka Ivan Chtcheglov) 

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Ursula K. Le Guin - Quotes

 Civilized Man says: I am Self, I am Master, all the rest is other--outside, below, underneath, subservient. I own, I use, I explore, I exploit, I control. What I do is what matters. What I want is what matter is for. I am that I am, and the rest is women & wilderness, to be used as I see fit. 

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SLC Punk! - Quotes

 Stevo:
I like Sandy. Now Sandy has nothing to do with anarchy in general, she's just a beautiful, wonderful, funny, witty, loving, sexy, tough-as-nails, little weird girl, and I absolutely adore her. I like Sandy a lot.
 

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Ayn Rand - Quotes

 A house can have integrity, just like a person,' said Roark, 'and just as seldom. 

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Larry Wall - Quotes

 When they first built the University of California at Irvine they just put the buildings in. They did not put any sidewalks, they just planted grass. The next year, they came back and put the sidewalks where the trails were in the grass. Perl is just that kind of language. It is not designed from first principles. Perl is those sidewalks in the grass. 

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Voltaire - Quotes

 I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species. 

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Kingpin - Quotes

 
[On smoking]
Ishmael:
You should try to quit. They say its bad for your heart, your lungs. It quickens the aging process.
Roy:
Who's done more research than the good people at the American Tobacco Industry? They say its harmless. Why would they lie? If you're dead, you can't smoke.
 

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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe - Quotes

 Less is more! 

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Hellboy - Quotes

 Tom Manning:
Let me tell you - let me tell you something about the Bureau of...
Television Host:
Paranormal Research and Defense.
Tom Manning:
...of Paranormal Research and Defense: there is no such thing. [cut to BPRD headquarters in New Jersey]
 

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Roland Barthes - Quotes

 Eiffel saw his Tower in the form of a serious object, rational, useful; men return it to him in the form of a great baroque dream which quite naturally touches on the borders of the irrational ... architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience. 

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William Goldman - Quotes

 Mawidge is a dweam wiffin a dweam. 

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Paranormal Activity - Quotes

 Micah:
Well, basically it could be two things: it could be a ghost... [mock whisper]
Micah:
or it could be a demon.
Katie:
Dr. Fredrichs said that it wasn't a ghost.
Micah:
Well, I've been going by the evidence and I'm doin' my research and I'm going to find out what it is.
Katie:
Well, whatever it is that's following me, it doesn't feel... it doesn't feel human. It feels like it's... it feels like a monster. I mean like, it wants to hurt me.
Micah:
Well that sounds like, actually like a demon.
Katie:
Yeah, that's what he said.
Micah:
Well, 'cause ghosts are spirits of human beings.
Katie:
Yeah, it's definitely not human.
Micah:
Then maybe you're right, which is bad 'cause demons suck.
 

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Rem Koolhaas - Quotes

 The cosmetic is cosmic. 

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Superbad - Quotes

 
[first lines]
Evan:
Yo.
Seth:
Hey, man, I was doing some research for next year and I think I figured out which website I wanna subscribe to. The Vag-Tastic Voyage.
 

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Thomas Hardy - Quotes

 The yard was a little centre of regeneration. Here, with keen edges and smooth curves, were forms in the exact likeness of those he had seen abraded and time-eaten on the walls. These were the ideas in modern prose which the lichened colleges presented in old poetry. Even some of those antiques might have been called prose when they were new. They had done nothing but wait, and had become poetical. How easy to the smallest building; how impossible to most men. 

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Henry David Thoreau - Quotes

 They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar 

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Frank Beddor - Quotes

 Only the previous day, Arch had found him in a spirit-dance corral, blistering the creatures to the point of death, such was his need to touch and destroy. 

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Kathryn Davis - Quotes

 Two adolescent girls on a hot summer night--hardly the material of great literature, which tends to endow all male experience (that of those twin brothers who found themselves adrift so many years ago in the dark northern woods for instance) with universal radiance. Faithless sons, wars and typhoons, fields of blood, greed and knives: our literature's full of such stories. And yet suppose for an instant that it wasn't the complacent father but his bored daughter who was the Prime Mover; suppose that what came first wasn't an appetite for drama but the urge to awaken it. Mightn't we then permit a single summer in the lives of two bored girls to represent an essential stage in the history of the universe? 

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Alex Hamilton - Quotes

 The word  

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Kurt Vonnegut - Quotes

 Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people really talk, make paltry human enterprises seem important. Singers and musicians show us human beings making sounds far more lovely than human beings really make. Architects give us temples in which something marvelous is obviously going on. Actually, practically nothing is going on. 

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My Little Eye - Quotes

 Rex:
[Matt pulls a gun out of the package] I know what this means. I know... fucking cocksuckers. [looks at the camera]
Rex:
I know what this means, fuck you. Do your fucking research okay, 'cos him doing that to himself was the best thing that ever fucking happened to me. Fuck you. [looks back at the others]
Rex:
What?
Matt:
[indicating the gun] I'll put this out of harm's way. [goes over to Rex]
Matt:
Come on, lets go upstairs.
Rex:
What? They think they can fuck with me now?
Charlie:
His dad, right?
 

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The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou - Quotes

 Alistair Hennessey:
They made soup out of my research turtles.
 

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Kate Chopin - Quotes

 The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.  

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Jonathan Hale - Quotes

 When the old way of seeing was displaced, a hollowness came into architecture. Our buildings show a constant effort to fill that void, to recapture that sense of life which was once to be found in any house or shed. Yet the sense of place is not to be recovered through any attitude, device, or style, but through the principles of pattern, spirit, and context. 

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Rebecca Solnit - Quotes

 One [project of Teddy Cruz's] is titled Living Rooms at the Border. it takes a piece of land with an unused church zoned for three units and carefully arrays on it twelve affordable housing units, a community center (the converted church), offices for Casa in the church's attic, and a garden that can accommodate street markets and kiosks. 'In a place where current regulation allows only one use,' [Cruz} crows, ' we propose five different uses that support each other. This suggests a model of social sustainability for San Diego, one that conveys density not as bulk but as social choreography.' For both architect and patron, it's an exciting opportunity to prove that breaking the zoning codes can be for the best. Another one of Cruz's core beliefs is that if architects are going to achieve anything of social distinction, they will have to become developers' collaborators or developers themselves, rather than hirelings brought in after a project's parameters are laid out.  

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Frank Lloyd Wright - Quotes

 A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. 

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Margaret Atwood - Quotes

 What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we make them up to suit ourselves -- our own hungers, our own wishes, our own deficiencies. 

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Tom McDonough - Quotes

 We are bored in the city, to still discover mysteries on the signs along the street, latest state of humor and poetry, requires getting damned tired...



Gilles Ivain (aka Ivan Chtcheglov) 

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Zadie Smith - Quotes

 Secondo l'esperienza di Archie, qualunque cosa dotata di memoria lunga mantiene i rancori, e non va per niente bene tenere animaletti domestici con ragioni di rancore (quella volta mi hai dato il cibo sbagliato, quell'altra mi hai fatto il bagno). 

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Rebecca Solnit - Quotes

 The new architecture and urban design of segregation could be called Calvinist: they reflect a desire to live in a world of predestination rather than chance, to strip the world of its wide-open possibilities and replace them with freedom of choice in the marketplace. 

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Rebecca Solnit - Quotes

 An aptitude test established architecture as an alternative [career]. But what decided the matter for [Teddy Cruz] was the sight of a fourth-year architecture student sitting at his desk at a window, drawing and nursing a cup of coffee as rain fell outside. 'I don't know, I just liked the idea of having this relationship to the paper and the adventure of imagining the spaces. That was the first image that captured me. 

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Christopher Hitchens - Quotes

 So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the hard-won principles of reason and science have been discredited, the world will not pass into the hands of credulous herbivores who keep crystals by their sides and swoon over the poems of Khalil Gibran. The 'vacuum' will be invaded instead by determined fundamentalists of every stripe who already know the truth by means of revelation and who actually seek real and serious power in the here and now. One thinks of the painstaking, cloud-dispelling labor of British scientists from Isaac Newton to Joseph Priestley to Charles Darwin to Ernest Rutherford to Alan Turing and Francis Crick, much of it built upon the shoulders of Galileo and Copernicus, only to see it casually slandered by a moral and intellectual weakling from the usurping House of Hanover. An awful embarrassment awaits the British if they do not declare for a republic based on verifiable laws and principles, both political and scientific. 

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The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara - Quotes

 Robert McNamara:
[referring to auto accident research at Cornell Aeronautical Lab] They said "the main problem is packaging." They said "you buy eggs and you know how eggs come in a carton?" [... ]
Robert McNamara:
So Cornell said "they don't break because they're packaged properly. Now if we package people in cars the same way, we could reduce the breakage."
 

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While You Were Sleeping - Quotes

 Saul:
So, do you have any family?
Lucy:
My mom died when I was really little and a couple of years ago my dad got sick so we moved from Indiana so he could go to research hospital.
Saul:
Research. Another word for very expensive.
Lucy:
Yeah, I had to quit school and I started working for the CTA and about a year ago he decided he had had enough research and he passed away.
 

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Christopher Hitchens - Quotes

 This is what you get when you found a political system on the family values of Henry VIII. At a point in the not-too-remote future, the stout heart of Queen Elizabeth II will cease to beat. At that precise moment, her firstborn son will become head of state, head of the armed forces, and head of the Church of England. In strict constitutional terms, this ought not to matter much. The English monarchy, as has been said, reigns but does not rule. From the aesthetic point of view it will matter a bit, because the prospect of a morose bat-eared and chinless man, prematurely aged, and with the most abysmal taste in royal consorts, is a distinctly lowering one. 

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Sherry K. White - Quotes

 Spiritual fathers have influence over the lives of individuals. Patriarchs have influence over families. The devil has been able to destroy families because there is a lack of spiritual fathers and patriarchs. 

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Andre Manning - Quotes

 Those who do not move, do not notice their chains. 

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