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Autobiography and memoir2 quotes
Architecture aims at Eternity. — Christopher Wren · 1680No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other. — Frank Lloyd Wright · 1932Philosophical literature2 quotes
Architecture in general is frozen music. — Friedrich von Schelling · 1803Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul. — Ernest Dimnet · 1932Comedy1 quote
Windows are the eyes to the house. — Andy Dwyer · 2012Comedy (TV)1 quote
Windows are the eyes to the house. — Andy Dwyer · 2012Detective fiction1 quote
It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport." — Douglas Adams · 1988Political speech1 quote
We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us. — Winston Churchill · 1943Travel writing1 quote
Light (God's eldest daughter), is a principal beauty in a building. — Thomas Fuller (churchman) · 1642