Hugh MacDiarmid Quotes
There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world but no ruined stones.
Hugh MacDiarmid
Quotes to Explore
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Buildings are always better than drawings and models.
Rafael Moneo
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When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit of certain configurations is obvious to anyone.
Yoshio Taniguchi
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There's a lot of bands that get to a certain level, and it just stops. They scrap it. Compare this to, say, The Rolling Stones or The Who, where they just continued on forever and are still playing, or they quit after 20 years.
Eddie Vedder
Pearl Jam
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There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.
Oscar Niemeyer
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I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.
Maya Angelou
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As I said before, stones to me is meant things that hurt people, things that cause pain and thats what this song is about.
Neil Diamond
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The stone neither speaks nor gives anything. Therefore its service is fruitless and its worship is of no avail.
Kabir
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I must make a choice every time I speak a sentence in English. I try to choose the happier way of saying things, so that my own words will not weigh me down like stones.
Tad Williams
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There was a lot of stones what the builders refused. I think I was one of the stones what many builders did refuse.
Burning Spear
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Look at their arts, their power of turning stone into lifelike figures, and above all, the way in which they can transfer their thoughts to white leaves, so that others, many many years hence, can read them and know all that was passing, and what men thought and did in the long bygone. Truly it is marvelous.
G.A. Henty
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... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the direction of the whole.
Plato
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The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.
Virginia Woolf
