Threshold/architecture

Famous quotes containing the words threshold and/or architecture:

“On the threshold of any wholly new and momentous devoted enterprise, the thousand ulterior intricacies and emperilings to which it must conduct; these, at the outset, are mostly withheld from sight.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)