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The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.

If you are going to make things up, at least take a leaf from Richard Adams Locke, who, in 1835, revealed in the New York Sun that the astronomer Sir John Herschel had used a new telescope to see the surface of the moon in astonishing detail, including unicorns, batwing humans and upright beavers.

Stuart Kelly

When I went to high school I had a teacher, in the arts, who was head of the department of Central High, William Grey, and he gave a course in Architecture, the only course in any high school I am sure, in Greek, Roman, Renaissance, Egyptian, and Gothic Architecture, and at that point two of my colleagues and myself realized that only Architecture was to be my life. How accidental our existences are, really, and how full of influence by circumstance.

London is the sixth largest French city in the world.

A.A. Gill

I admire machinery as much as any man, and am as thankful to it as any man can be for what it does for us.  But, it will never be a substitute for the face of a man, with his soul in it, encouraging another man to be brave and true.

Charles Dickens