108 Quotes About Structure

You ironically have to have a very strong ego structure to let go of your ego. You need to struggle with the rules more than a bit before you throw them out. You only internalize values by butting up against external values for a while.

A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure, to provide stability. Not that I'm saying a woman can't provide stability, I'm not saying that...It does take a father though.

As a child, I was fascinated by construction sites. Later, I worked on them, selling houses. I love the whole idea of building in the literal, and the metaphorical sense. Good writers are good architects and builders - it's all about structure.

Foulmouthed individuals seem to have their neuron systems replaced by colon structures, given that their terminology profusely consists of "sh*t and f*ck". ("Tolerance zero")

Every great building once begun as a building plan. That means, sitting in that building plan on the table is a mighty structure not yet seen. It is the same with dreams.

I am wary of the whole dreary deadening structured mess that we have built into such a glittering top-heavy structure that there is nothing left to see but the glitter, and the brute routines of maintaining it.

In your hands I am no longer a pile of bones left behind to a world that moved on.

Writing structure is logical. Writing method at its best is instinctive. That way you get the benefits of both styles - improvisation within calculation.

I am convinced that something out of the ordinary, if not truly unique, is occurring in Toronto. It feels like the city is emerging from a chrysalis.