Architecture Quote by Gilbert Sorrentino Download Open image ““One must find some structure, even if it be this haphazard one of the alphabet.”” — Gilbert Sorrentino ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architecture
“I'd need a new alphabet, one made of falling, of tectonic plates shifting, of the deep devouring dark.” — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“I write with the entire alphabet, not just the popular letters. Readers don't want to lose themselves in the text. They want to find… — Mark R. Trost Copy Share Image
“Foibles are like alphabets; they collate and cascade into a prose of follies.” — Shabbeer Ahmed Copy Share Image
“Would it insult you if I used your alphabet? I don't think I could start from scratch.” — Clay Susan Griffith Copy Share Image
“x, n. Doesn’t it strike you as strange that we have a letter in the alphabet that nobody uses? It represents one-twenty-sixth of the… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“They have a quick verbal exchange but only get to cover the alphabet from A to F, outdoing each other with the most choice… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“Everything, indeed, in a work of art should be unedited,--and even the words, by the manner of grouping them, of shaping them to new… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
“... instead of spelling stories you spread silence, which was outside the alphabet.” — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
All I do know, for certain, after 53 years in this business, is that writers who sincerely think that their language can represent reality… — Gilbert Sorrentino Copy Share Image
“A writer discovers what he knows as he knows it, i.e., as he makes it. No artist writes in order to objectify an “idea” already formed. It is the poem or novel or story that quite precisely tells him what he didn't know he knew: he knows, that is, only in terms of his writing. This is, of course, simply… — Gilbert Sorrentino Copy Share
On Being Blue celebrates both language and that which it represents and carefully draws our attention to that difficult middle ground on which the… — Gilbert Sorrentino Copy Share Image
“He may have liked many other things, but we know for certain only that he liked a sweet summer breeze, stars shining softly above, memories (made of This), his mother's rosary and her posary, an old-fashioned melody, broken hearts, baby shoes, a garden of love made just for two, moments passing into hours, pretty hubbahubba babies, the roses of Picardy,… — Gilbert Sorrentino Copy Share
“Q: What literary complexities do you find most interesting? That is, what do you like most to "solve," so to speak, as a novelist?… — Gilbert Sorrentino Copy Share Image
“He hadn't "abused" alcohol, but had spent almost four years sitting in a chair drinking jug wine around the clock and looking, variously, at… — Gilbert Sorrentino Copy Share Image
…and to all you other cats and chicks out there, sweet or otherwise, buried deep in wordy tombs, who never yet have walked from… — Gilbert Sorrentino Copy Share Image
What is this thing called a kiss? French, tongue, soul, chaste, motherly, fatherly, brotherly, sisterly, ass, genital, Judas, trembling, rough, hesitant, sweet, soft, wet,… — Gilbert Sorrentino Copy Share Image
“He wiped her forehead and stroked her shoulders, worshiping her pain. He went to get a Coke and brought it back to her, but she only sipped at it, then said O God! and bent over to throw up. He held her hips while she vomited, loving the waste and odor of her. She lay down on the ground and… — Gilbert Sorrentino Copy Share
They want politics and think it will save them. At best, it gives direction to their numbed desires. But there is no politics but… — Gilbert Sorrentino Copy Share Image
The bones of my architecture are very much related to the structure, to the physical fact of how a building can stand up; it's… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around. He doesn't speak the language. He holds no currency. He is a foreign man. He is surrounded by the sound, sound of cattle in the marketplace, scatterlings and orphanages. He looks around, around he sees angels… — Paul Simon Copy Share
The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to,… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress Copy Share Image
The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place. — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
A wiki works best where you're trying to answer a question that you can't easily pose, where there's not a natural structure that's known… — Ward Cunningham Copy Share Image
Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived. — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image