It is unmatched in its ability to think, to communicate…

It's striking and unique in London how you know to create this alchemy between the concept, the food, the music, the staff. From the…

— Alain Ducasse

Our respect for the dead, when they are just dead, is something wonderful, and the way we show it more wonderful still. We show…

— John Ruskin

“Cathedrals are to be adored until the day when, to preserve them, it would be necessary to deny the truths which they teach.”

— Marcel Proust

If theory is the role of the architect, then such beautiful proofs are the role of the craftsman. Of course, as with the great…

— Michael Atiyah

“I believe that love is better than hate. And that there is more nobility in building a chicken coop than in destroying a cathedral.”

— Anonymous

Many men build as cathedrals are built-the part nearest the ground finished, but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Most buildings, whether they're Gothic cathedrals or Romanesque ones, were high tech for their time.

— Richard Rogers

Her father had taught her about hands. About a dog's paws. Whenever her father was alone with a dog in a house he would…

— Michael Ondaatje

My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a limited light.

— Dan Flavin

You can’t bring an unwritten place to life without losing something substantial. Manila is the cradle, the graveyard, the memory. The Mecca, the Cathedral,…

— Miguel Syjuco

Nothing is more urgent than a serious, dare I say compassionate, debate as to where we are going at home and abroad. Technicians cannot…

— Henry A. Kissinger

The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a mater-architect;…

— Hubert H. Humphrey

We will live to see the day that St. Patrick's Cathedral is a child-care center and the pope is no longer a disgrace to…

— Gloria Steinem

Even if you tried to extinguish your personality, what is left in the story will reflect it, perhaps by its negation. Our lives provide…

— Aleksandar Hemon

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

— David Lodge