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A thick, intense fog was rolling in from the ocean, which created long, strange shadows to form like creatures of their own kind.
— Keira D. Skye
New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
I have a lot of African-American friends.
— Larry Pressler
She counted her blessings, rather than her misfortunes.
— Callie Hunter
It's wonderful that whenever Patsy Cline's name is mentioned, people's voices fall and they become right sentimental. And, rightly so.
— Maya Angelou
The divine arts; Humankind, Nature, Stars, Sun, Moon, Sea....!
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
No matter what an architect may be at home, he becomes a monumentalist when he comes to Washington.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest is not a quiet, consuming passion.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
Laughter is the Wild Body's song of triumph.
— Wyndham Lewis
Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
Unspoken words keep struggling; they create negative images in minds of people who want to hear them and who keep suppressing them.
— Balroop Singh
Clutter in its highest and most organized form is called collecting.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
It's much more difficult to make a judgment on yourself than on anyone else. If you can manage to judge yourself well, you're a truly wise person.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
Only a Californian would have observed that it is becoming increasingly difficult to tell the real fake from the fake fake.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
Every generation tailors history to its taste.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
If the British are a nation of shopkeepers, Americans are a nation of shoppers.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
Hunger is not debatable.
— Harry Hopkins
Real estate is the closest thing to the proverbial pot of gold.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
