Form follows function.

Form follows function.

It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the building.

But the building's identity resided in the ornament.

Alas, the world has never known a sound social fabric, a fabric sound and clean to the core and kindly. For it has ever turned its back on Man.

If with open mind one reads and observes industriously and long; if in so doing one covers a wide field and so covering reflects in terms of realism, he is likely, soon or late, to be brought to a sudden consciousness that Man is an unknown quantity and his existence unsuspected.

Implicit in true freedom of spirit lies a proud and virile will. Such glorious power of free will to choose, envisages beneficent social responsibility as manifest and welcome.

In the history of mankind there are recorded two great Inversions. The first, set forth by the Nazarene to the effect that love is a greater power and more real than vengeance. The second proclaimed the earth to be a sphere revolving in its course around the sun. These affirmations were made in the face of all evidence sacred to the contrary.

It is the mass dream of inverted self, populous with fears overt and secret, that forms the continuous but gossamer thread upon which are strung as phantom beads all civilizations from the remotest past of record to that of the present day and hour.

Man shall find his anchorage in self-recognition.

Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as a social manifestation, the critical eye becomes clairvoyant.

The building's identity resided in the ornament.

The feudal concept of self-preservation is poisoned at the core by the virulent assumption of master and man, of potentate and slave, of external and internal suppression of the life urge of the only one - of its faith in human sacrifice as a means of salvation.

The problem of the tall office building is one of the most stupendous, one of the most magnificent opportunities that the Lord of Nature in His beneficence has ever offered to the proud spirit of man.

What the people are within, the buildings express without.

Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time.

To teach is to touch the heart and impel it to action.

I've written books for awhile, but always on a pretty small scale and always pretty self-indulgent. I chose projects that I thought would be really fun to work on and found friends to work on them with me, and it was all about the process.

Self command is the main discipline.

The only crime I'm guilty of is being a young black woman.

Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.

You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you.

One woman came up to me at a lecture and observed that I was much fatter than on television; I think I look better onscreen than in real life. It's the lights.

I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.

I don't want to be the next big anything. I just want to play for people and that's it.

Have I made mistakes in my many years of political activity? Of course! I am sorry and regret them.

The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.

With our evolved busy hands and our evolved busy brains, in an extraordinarily short period of time we've managed to alter the earth with such geologic-forcing effects that we ourselves are forces of nature. Climate change, ocean acidification, the sixth mass extinction of species.

Educations purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

I don't see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that's almost inconceivable.

With a modem, anyone can follow the world and report on the world-no middle man, no big brother. I guess this changes everything.

Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country and when they feel that all Canada belongs to them.

Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.

The key to artificial intelligence has always been the representation.

If I had mastered the Spanish language to any extent, I might have gone in that direction.

Energy companies, such as Chevron and Shell, and oil producing countries, such as Kuwait and Venezuela, pump crude oil from their vast land holdings and sell it on the world market.

With the recent addition of a full soundtrack and the players map, millions of Poptropicans around the globe are now fully immersed in a multimedia gaming experience when they embark on our high quality adventures.

Those of us who care about food and where it comes from will miss both Obama and Michelle. Even though Obama failed to do many things he indicated he would do around food, Michelle Obama has done a lot to shine a light on the link between diet and health, which is really important.

The danger with playing a part that defines you is that it swallows up everything else.

If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, I must have a club. This is equality.

Hatreds are the cinders of affection.