Entrances Quote by Robert Grudin Download Open image “All great experience has a guarded entrance and a windowless facade.” — Robert Grudin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Entrances Facade Great experiences Guarded Mystery
There's something about the processional nature of the architecture, of the rooms connecting rooms. It's just breathtaking. — Bill Henson Copy Share Image
Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse… — Enid Nemy Copy Share Image
All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
A profound design process eventually makes the patron, the architect, and every occasional visitor in the building a slightly better human being. — Juhani Pallasmaa Copy Share Image
No windows give a better view than those a man brings with him in his head, not asking for tickets of admission, since at… — Pedro Calderon de la Barca Copy Share Image
The greatest glory of a building is not in its stones, nor in its gold. Its glory is in its Age, and in that… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Great architecture is not just about buildings like the Shard or the Guggenheim - it can be a caravan, castle, boat or house. — George Clarke Copy Share Image
If the estimated age of the cosmos were shortened to seventy-two years, a human life would take about ten seconds. But look at time… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
Truth is rhythmical: if it implies stasis, it is platitude. Truth is syncopated: if it supplies all the terms, there is one term too… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
“Because we believe that one moment is more or less like the next, we lose touch with the essential urgency of the present, the… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
To be open to inspiration, one must cultivate a leaning for the problematic, a chronic attraction to things that do not totally fit, agree,… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
“...like gravity, beauty is a force whose existence is inferred from its apparent effects.” — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
Those who labor for bread or money alone are condemned to their reward. — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
The happy individual is able to renew daily and with full consciousness all the basic expressions of human identity: work, love, communication, play, and… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
No psychological message is so open to question as that which tells us that we have nothing left to do or to give. — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
Psychologically time is seldom homogenous but rather is as full of shapes as space. — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
Individuals we consider happy commonly seem complete in the present and we see them constantly in their wholeness: attentive, cheerful, open rather than closed… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
The extent to which we live from day to day, from week to week, intent on details and oblivious to larger presences, is a… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
To enter into the realm of contemplation one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance to a… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The mission for the day is to encourage students to think beyond traditional career opportunities, prepare for future careers and entrance into the workplace. — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
There were doors that looked like large keyholes, others that resembled the entrances to caves, there were golden doors, some were padded and some… — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
Scobe's Eighth Law: The moron will enter the single deck game when the count is sky high and the dealer is deciding whether or… — Frank Scoblete Copy Share Image
I was afraid to board a streetcar because of the conductor; I was afraid to enter the Kabuki Theater for fear of the usherettes… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
If you deny the existence of your fault or error, it will strengthen its hold over you. If you recognize it, your awareness will… — R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz Copy Share Image
Lincoln's removal from New Salem to Springfield and his entrance into a law partnership with Major John T. Stuart begin a distinctively new period… — John George Nicolay Copy Share Image
The history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
There are no beginnings, not even to stories. There are only places where you make an entrance into someone else's life and either stay… — Timothy Findley Copy Share Image
New Orleans invented the brown paper bag party - usually at a gathering in a home - where anyone darker than the bag attached… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
My gentleman gives the law where he is; he will outpray saints in chapel, outgeneral veterans in the field, and outshine all courtesy in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
…he is unlike the other customers. They sense it too, and look at him with hard eyes, eyes like little metal studs pinned into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
