John Prebble quotes

“Architects and engineers are among the most fortunate of men since they build their own monuments with public consent, public approval and often public money.”
-- John Prebble

Source : John Prebble (1956). “Disaster at Dundee”

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“All creative work has its greatest reality while it is still in a man's mind, before he begins to execute it.”
-- John Prebble

Source : John Prebble (1956). “Disaster at Dundee”

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“All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.”

“We may not preach a crucified Saviour without being also crucified men and women. It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration. The cross that Paul speaks about was burned into his very flesh, was branded into his being, and only the Holy Spirit can burn the true cross into our innermost life.”

“A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered equal to a common man.”

“A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.”

“Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”

“Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence.”

“Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.”

“I love going to Topshop, Urban Outfitters and American Apparel, I'm in love with their jackets.”

“I'm an urban person who loves living in the country.”

“A noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die.”