Famous quotes containing the words chief, constable and/or sir:
“The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.”
—Lewis Mumford (18951990)
“I did not know that thou wert dead before;
I did not feel the grief I did sustain;
The greater stroke astonisheth the more;
Astonishment takes from us sense of pain.
I stood amazed when others tears begun,
And now begin to weep when they have done.”
—Henry Constable (15621613)
“Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.”
—Terence, Sir Conran (b. 1931)