Admire Quote by Norman Foster

I had noticed that many of these successful people, historical and contemporary, shared certain common traits. They had a way of thinking that was…

— Robert Greene

“I loved buildings that had grown silently with the centuries, catching the best of each generation while time curbed the artist's pride and the…

— Evelyn Waugh

“He would wake to see the towers and minarets printed on the exhausted, dust-powdered sky, and see as if en montage on them the…

— Lawrence Durrell

“The lessons in measurement of cloacal forces. Time as a flow of sewage. The excrement of space, scatology of creation. The voiding of the…

— Thomas Ligotti

“I remember to this day how easily I could grasp what he called his tentative ideas when he talked about the architectural style of…

— W.G. Sebald

“As journeys unfold, new challenges arise and pressures mount. These successive tolls must too be paid in creativity and ingenuity, as they were by…

— Sean Patrick

“A sincere person owes it to themselves to expose the frightful barbarity which still prevails in the hidden depths of a society so outwardly…

— Élisée Reclus

The people I believed in were people like William Lever, the great philanthropic industrialist - self-made men who realised anyone could achieve.

— Esther McVey

What fascinated me most was Churchill as a young child. He had a kind of Dickensian childhood. The neglect. And he was a terrible…

— John Lithgow

Were man to devote as much time and energy to himself as he has devoted to that which man has produced, what astounding and…

— Joseph Pilates

There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.

— Jean Rostand

“To lead a human life, a man must have a notion of himself as having a past and a future.”

— Mary Warnock