Leon Battista Alberti Quotes

I will never tire of recommending the custom, practiced by the best architects, of preparing not only drawings and sketches, but also models of wood or any other material. These... enable us to examine... the work as a whole... and, before continuing any further, to estimate the likely trouble and expense.

Leon Battista Alberti

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: architect
  • Nationality: italian
  • Birth: February 14, 1404 - April 25, 1472

Topics

WorkBestTroubleWoodWillNever

My only agenda is to bring attention to otherwise ignored and shunned lives.

Jim Goldberg

AttentionBringOnlyAgendaIgnored

I love being on stage. I'm completely, totally relaxed. It's the only time in my life when I know where I am and what's coming next. The other Robert Powell is probably fairly melancholic. Let's just say happiness isn't my default position. There are dark parts. I'm very good at it. I frighten people sometimes.

Robert Powell

LifeLoveGoodHappinessTimeI Am

America's greatness has always been demonstrated by our moral leadership.

John Hickenlooper

LeadershipGreatnessAmericaMoral

The gay bunting erects his white crest, and gives utterance to the joy he feels in the presence of his brooding mate; the willow grouse on the rock crows his challenge aloud; each floweret, chilled by the night air, expands its pure petals; the gentle breeze shakes from the blades of grass the heavy dewdrops.

John James Audubon

ChallengeJoyNightGayWhiteRock

I could not have been happier with 'The Lincoln Lawyer.' They got the essence, and the casting, starting with McConaughey, was just perfect.

Michael Connelly

LawyerPerfectStartingEssenceBeen

Style can change your look, certainly, but it can also change your life.

Stacy London

LifeChangeStyleLookYourAlso

Purchasing a story in order to bury it is a practice that many in the tabloid industry call 'catch and kill.'

Ronan Farrow

PracticeStoryOrderIndustryCatch

I know, for me, I want to live in a community where people's basic needs are met.

Michael Tubbs

LiveCommunityPeopleMeKnowWant

There are people that really live by doing the right thing, but I don't know what that is, I'm really curious about that. I'm really curious about what people think they're doing when they're doing something evil, casually. I think it's really interesting, that we benefit from suffering so much, and we excuse ourselves from it.

Louis C. K.

LiveCuriousPeopleSufferingEvil

It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was a way to a brighter day for me.

Little Richard

EducationSuccessDayMePoverty

The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.

Joseph Butler

TongueInjusticeViceServeMay

Education was the motor that allowed me to make my way up the ladder.

Chieh Huang

EducationMeLadderWayUpMake

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