Edith Pearlman Quotes

Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.

Edith Pearlman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 26, 1936

Topics

ArchitectureBuildingSometimesPost

A refuge is supposed to prevent what? The genes from flowing out of sight? This refuge idea won't stop insects from moving across boundaries. That's absurd.

Jeremy Rifkin

MovingStopSightBoundariesOut

A couple of back operations didn't cure anything, but instead, things got worse and worse and worse.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

BackOperationsAnythingThingsCure

Its Arsenal 0 - Everton 1, and the longer it stays like that the more you've got to fancy Everton.

John Motson

YouMoreFancyGotLikeStays

The United States has an active pharmaceutical industry that has brought huge benefits to the U.S. public. Most Americans, who benefit from these advances, have little understanding of how difficult it is to create an important new medical therapy and make it available to improve public health.

Robert Jarvik

HealthMedicalUnderstandingCreate

As an audience member, those studio films are fun. I like an adventure tale, and I also like to go see something that has more of a social pulse. I like to keep learning and trying new things. And if the scripts are good, it doesn't really matter.

Michael Fassbender

LearningGoodNew ThingsAdventure

I made a vow to myself while I was a hostage that if I were lucky enough to live and to get out of Somalia, I would do something meaningful with my life - and specifically something that would be meaningful in the country where I'd lost my freedom.

Amanda Lindhout

LifeLiveFreedomMyselfMy Life

When I was little, my parents really only wanted me to be a scientist or a doctor; they had never even heard of law school. I think even these days if you were to tell your mother you want to be a fashion designer, or an artist or a writer, a lot of Asian parents would be alarmed because they don't think that's a secure career.

Amy Chua

MotherSchoolParentsLawFashion

I like working with Kenneth Branagh.

Stellan Skarsgard

WorkingLikeKenneth

The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change.

Stockwell Day

WorkChangeReputationStoryTrying

But It doesn't make sense for us to have a continued reliance on a supply of oil where whenever there is unrest in another part of the world, gasoline prices jump up. We need a renewable fuel industry that's more than corn-based, of course, and there are a whole series of great opportunities here.

Tom Vilsack

GreatWorldOpportunitiesJumpOil

I'm single because I move about so much that I can't really get attached.

Rory McCann

SingleMoveBecauseGetMuchReally

Trump tapped into a lot of middle-class and working-class disillusion with the political establishment and into economic worries and resentments that ballooned in the wake of the 2008 financial crash.

Michiko Kakutani

FinancialPoliticalEconomicTrump

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