Fentress Quotes & Sayings

I mean time management is a big factor in my life. I'm a very organized person. You can only do one thing at a time, so that's the main way I do everything. When I'm with my kids, I'm with my kids. When I'm directing a movie, I'm directing a movie. When I'm making Magic Mike, I'm making Magic Mike. So you just really have to fragment and focus. — Elizabeth Banks

As a writer, I have always considered it my job to describe the world as I know it; to struggle toward whatever portion of the truth is available to me, — Theresa Rebeck

It takes a great client to create great architecture. — Curtis W. Fentress

One is born to be a great dancer. — George Balanchine

Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress

There are many satisfactions in public architecture but one of the greatest is the moment when you unveil a project and suddenly a group of adults — Curtis W. Fentress

The important thing in life is not what you get, but what you throw out. — Saul Leiter

Other kids went out and beat each other up or played baseball, and I built electronics. — Robert Moog

Suffer more now, suffer less later. — Amy Tan

I believe that the monetary stability is an absolutely critical element in the satisfactory operation of a system. — Milton Friedman

A bold architectural statement turns a public building into a landmark, but it is in the details where the architect becomes the real storyteller. — Curtis W. Fentress

If worship does not change us it has not been worship. — Richard J. Foster

If you can't be committed to another person, at least be committed to the concept of character and don't cheat. — Jerry Springer

People actually ask me why I bring in projects on budget and on time. It seems I am not living up to the fashionable genius role. I really enjoy when a project gets down to the wire, and through sheer force of will and faith in our process, we cross the goal line, when most people thought it impossible. — Curtis W. Fentress

You've never been the safe, nice girl next door, despite everything you do to be that person. That's why you joined the I.S., and even there you didn't fit in, because, knowing it or not, you were a possible threat to everyone around you. People sense it on some level. I see it all the time. The dangerous are attracted by the lure of an equal, and the weak are afraid. Then they avoid you, or go out of their way to make your life miserable so you'll leave and they can continue deluding themselves that they're safe. ( ... ) You got off on the risk. — Kim Harrison