Edifice Quotes

“Flowers are always more serious than they appear.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home

“Life’s contentment is like an abstract edifice with a domed ceiling of insanity”
― Munia Khan

“Citadelle, je te construirai dans le cœur de l'homme.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Citadelle

“You will arise, so start by attempting to rise. Don't give space for failure to erect local huts in your land; agree that you are constructing a global edifice there! Think possibility and be hopeful!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Leave the quarters of the close-fisted selfishness and live in the edifice of an open-handed generosity. God gives to you, so you can share when it's required of you! Give out; conquer greed!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“People either build a castle or a dungeon. The former by their virtues, pull people into positive edifices with gainful impression. The later by their vices, push people into negative huts with painful oppression.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder

“The greatest edifice that we can erect to ourselves is to give ourselves over to building the edifices within other people in a manner that they might carry a part of ourselves, but they look nothing like ourselves.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“An edifice is more than a house and less than a City, though it may resemble a house from the outside and a city from within. From without, an edifice may seem self-contained and finite; from within, it may well extend beyond lines of vision, both spatially and temporally. In almost every possible way, edifices manifest a principle central to the description of most physical structures in fantasy: there is always more to them than meets the eye.”
― John Clute, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy

“Is Ronchamp reminiscent of the Ark left stranded on Ararat, or like ‘bits of broken china thrown on top of the hill’? Is the roof like a bird’s wing, or does the whole edifice look like a decoy? Is it an alighting dove or a sitting duck? Good taste bids us to suppress the latter in favour of the former, although the latter is as easy to see.”
― Robin Evans, The Projective Cast: Architecture and Its Three Geometries