Leon Battista Alberti Quotes

The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.

Leon Battista Alberti

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GreatCitySmallHouseTurnLike

I have a Madonna portrait done in the style of a Russian icon. My mother, the chef Lidia Bastianich, and I bought it together. It reminds me of her.

Joe Bastianich

MotherStyleTogetherMeChefDone

It's weird for me to say I'm lucky when I can't go into a bookstore and have more than five choices if I want to read something about Asian-American characters.

Jenny Zhang

MeChoicesWeirdGoSayWant

In marriage, someone has to be a giver and someone a taker. I am a taker who married a giver.

Robert Preston

MarriageI AmSomeoneWhoGiverAm

As a child that is born into the world requires nourishment, so also the Christ that is born within is a babe and requires to be nourished to the full stature of manhood.

Max Heindel

ChildWorldBornWithinManhood

I don't really have a process. I'm very much an in-the-moment actress. I suppose I just kind of wing it because I feel that as long as I know my character, I should be able to be spontaneous on set.

Sophie Turner

CharacterProcessFeelLongKnow

Politics is tricky; it cuts both ways. Every time you make a choice, it has unintended consequences.

Stone Gossard

TimePoliticsYouChoiceTricky

I'm not a child star, but you could say that I've grown up on TV. I went from being an unknown, down-and-out comic from Brooklyn and the Bronx to being a regular character on a major network comedy called 'Martin.' From there I went on to become the most notable black comic on 'Saturday Night Live' since Eddie Murphy.

Tracy Morgan

LiveCharacterChildNightBlack

If you're gay or religious you're always hearing this word tolerance. It's a pathetic word. It's actually just a politically correct word for the term intolerance.

Rupert Everett

ToleranceYouGayAlwaysHearing

A covenant made with God should be regarded not as restrictive but as protective.

Russell M. Nelson

GodMadeCovenantShouldProtective

Years go by, but the heart of what we all fight and die for at the core is the same. We fight and die for love and our family and our land and for what's ours. We do things for something as simple as pride.

Matt Barr

FamilyLoveHeartSimpleFightDie

Production for movies or TV is very painstaking and slow.

Mike White

SlowMoviesProductionTVVery

You mustn't underestimate an audience's intelligence.

Marvin Hamlisch

IntelligenceYouUnderestimate

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