#art

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#architecture #art #fireworks #great #like

And if we make the process political, if we start to make it personal, we're actually going to frustrate good public policy, in terms of managing this money. ↗

— Michael Chertoff

#frustrate #going #good #make #managing

Last year, New York got $200 million. This year, we're going to give them $124 million under this particular program. But last year was an artificially elevated number to make up from the very low grant the year before. ↗

— Michael Chertoff

#before #elevated #give #going #got

The Department of Defense took 40 years to get where it got. ↗

— Michael Chertoff

#department #get #got #took #where

To me the work is so much more interesting, the parts that don't require you just to take your shirt off. ↗

— Morris Chestnut

#just #me #more #much #off

I endured many weeks of it, but I had a big background in martial arts and fighting as a kid, so kind of all the problems got brushed away and I was ready. ↗

— Jason Statham

#away #background #big #brushed #endured

When I started really singing I was 17, 18 years old. I used to go around trying to be a singer in the Bronx. My knees would shake but I learned by doing. ↗

— Dominic Chianese

#bronx #doing #go #i #knees

I have the 'thing' worked out - the trick or the surprise or the pivotal fact. Then I just start somewhere and let the story work itself out. ↗

— Lee Child

#i #itself #just #out #pivotal

I have a kind of old-fashioned, artisan approach. ↗

— Lee Child

#artisan #i #kind #old-fashioned

The difference today is that, in both parties, the very extreme elements control the nomination process. ↗

— Hamilton Jordan

#control #difference #elements #extreme #nomination