Design Philosophy Architecture Quotes & Sayings

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. — James Baldwin

The past is bound to be fragmentary, bound to be reconstructed, bound to be reinvented. It serves only to collect the truths of today. If our present is the child of the past, our past is the child of the present. And the future will be the harvester of our bastard offspring. — Amin Maalouf

I'm the most communal person that exists and a very solitary person. So I think writing is a form of getting to the community and being alone, and it's the best of both possible worlds. — Ariel Dorfman

The price we pay for being ourselves is worth it. — Eartha Kitt

And that was how the Selection did its first act in my favor: if I had her here, at least I had the chance to try. — Kiera Cass

I believe in opportunity and the power of reason to seize upon it. — Spartacus

The ideal architect should be a man of letters, a skillful draftsman, a mathematician, familiar with historical studies, a diligent student of philosophy, acquainted with music, not ignorant of medicine, learned in the responses of jurisconsults, familiar with astronomy and astronomical calculations. — Vitruvius

I was 17 when Peter Jackson asked me to be in 'Heavenly Creatures.' — Kate Winslet

I feel really good about the future and working with people. — Angel Olsen

The Messiah comes not only as the redeemer, he comes as the subduer of Antichrist. Only that historian will have the gift of fanning the spark of hope in the past who is firmly convinced that even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he wins. And this enemy has not ceased to be victorious. — Walter Benjamin

Statistically speaking, the Cheerful Early Riser is rejected more completely than a member of any other subculture, save those with boot odor. — Ellen Goodman

Redundancy of language is never found with deep reflection. Verbiage may indicate observation, but not thinking. He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. — Washington Irving

Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture. — Tadao Ando

The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much. — William Howard Taft

There is a great feeling in a small venue, with the closeness of the people and the intimacy. — Mavis Staples