Martin Filler Quotes
Considering my specialization in architecture, I'm not surprised that the first graphic novel to thoroughly engage, not to say captivate, me is Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor's 'Batman: Death by Design.'
Quotes to Explore
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The thing about 'Dark Knight' is its objective is to set Batman into your world, so that you can imagine the moral dilemmas he faces are exactly parallel to moral dilemmas that you would face in this world, today, if you were out there fighting crime dressed like a bat.
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After I was assaulted in Egypt, I learned fear. I've just never been so scared in my life. I've never been so close to death.
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I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
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Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
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I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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Bankruptocracy is as much a European predicament as it is an American 'invention.' The difference between the experience of the two continents is that at least Americans did not have to labour under the enormous design faults of the eurozone.
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Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.
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But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.
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The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.
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When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can't afford, they are condemning good people to death.
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The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.
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If we are not free, no one will respect us.
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Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
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When I saw Bryan Singer's 'Usual Suspects,' I knew how it was going to end because I'd seen 'Scary Movie.' Which is not the preferred order of things, but that's how it is because my childhood was 'Home Alone,' 'Matilda,' 'Batman Returns,' 'Jumanji,' 'Secret Garden,' 'Jack,' 'Mrs. Doubtfire,' 'Titanic.' Only family films from the '90s.
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Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.
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My parents were mourning the death of my sister. She was killed in a car accident before I was born, and I didn't know she existed until I was 13 or 14 years old. I knew I was growing up in a house where people were angry and sad.
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No matter who or what we are, God restores us to right standing with Himself only by means of the death of Jesus Christ.
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The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer; it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and rise to a state of grace. Otherwise, religion is nothing but dead logic.
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Considering my specialization in architecture, I'm not surprised that the first graphic novel to thoroughly engage, not to say captivate, me is Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor's 'Batman: Death by Design.'
