2,198 quotes found
“Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you'll be: How good are you at going around obstacles?”
“I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.”
“After my schooling, I was not thrilled by the idea of treading the usual doctor-engineer line. I wanted to pursue something artistic, and I was good at drawing. The options before me were architect...”
“I fought violently for the autonomy of architecture. It's a very passive, weak profession where people deliver a service. You want a blue door, you get a blue door. You want it to look neo-Spanish,...”
“The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.”
“Downtown Toronto is a very good place to talk about the neutrality of modernist architecture. I'm sure this kind of box-building was interesting in the Twenties, Thirties and Forties, but I think i...”
“If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good. Besides, modernism rather than classicism has dominated the ar...”
“Britain loves a bargain, but you don't get good, lasting architecture on the cheap.”
“Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school.”
“If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions. There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of...”
“In England the judges should have independence to protect the people against the crown. Here the judges should not be independent of the people, but be appointed for not more than seven years. The ...”
“We believe in government involvement that leads to independence: good schools, quality roads and the best health care.”
“The United States is truly remarkable, a nation founded on a set of Enlightenment ideals so beautifully expressed by the Declaration of Independence and codified in the U.S. Constitution. We should...”
“The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.”
“John Huston was a superb master. He knew how to make good films. I did three things with him. One is called Independence. It plays in Philadelphia, for free. It's been playing there for 25 years.”
“It's never been a point of reference to look to a man. It's not always a good thing, I suppose, but I think independence is always preferable to dependence.”
“If the Scottish people decide to opt for independence, it would not be a good idea for Scotland to maintain a very rigid link to the pound.”
“What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.”
“I really believe I've been a good person. Not perfect - forget about perfect - but just learning by what I was taught and living by my own values. I might have stepped on a few ants - and a few oth...”
“I started practicing yoga. I started learning some hands-on healing stuff. And I found really good chiropractors, really good massage therapists, and what I found is I've been able to actually peel...”
