Junkspace Koolhaas Quotes & Sayings

It's a monster."
Her nose scrunches in disgust. "You mean it's deformed?"
"No. I mean it's huge."
"How huge?"
"Unnaturally huge."
"Like a porno dick?"
"Exactly. — Helena Hunting

Was it hard?" I ask.
Letting go?"
Not as hard as holding on to something that wasn't real. — Lisa Schroeder

Though a simple book can be written on selected topics, the central doctrines of economics are not simple and cannot be made so. — Alfred Marshall

The ideal situation for a parent is one that no one has - having a fulfilling job that requires you to work three days a week. It's better for the parents, because they get to spend time with the children and also have a source of pride and achievement - and income - outside the home. — Tina Fey

Anyaele Sam Chiyson's Law of Objectivity States that You must be aware of who you are and your ability to do all things right by yourself and have all things turn out well for you, without distortion through personal feelings, prejudices or interpretations in order to make your mark in a way that is free from any subjective preference. — Anyaele Sam Chiyson

our judgement of a man would be much sounder were it based on what he dreams rather than on what he thinks. — Victor Hugo

Boo-Boo Pennyroyal did not like her male and female slaves to mingle. In the operas that she adored, young people brought together in tragic circumstances were forever falling in love with each other and then throwing themselves off things (cliffs, mostly, but sometimes battlements, or rooftops, or the brinks of volcanoes). Boo-Boo was fond of her slaves, and it pained her to think of them plummeting in pairs off the edges of Cloud 9, so she nipped all tragic love affairs firmly in the bud by forbidding the girls and boys to speak to one another. Of course, young people being what they were, girls sometimes fell in love with other girls, or boys with boys, but that never happened in the operas, so Boo-Boo didn't notice. — Philip Reeve

We were land-based agrarian people from Africa. We were uprooted from Africa, and we spent 200 years developing our culture as black Americans. And then we left the South. We uprooted ourselves and attempted to transplant this culture to the pavements of the industrialized North. And it was a transplant that did not take. I think if we had stayed in the South, we would have been a stronger people. And because the connection between the South of the 20's, 30's and 40's has been broken, it's very difficult to understand who we are. — August Wilson

Was I willing to glue on a vijay toupee for him? — R.S. Grey

Anyone interested in design must be interested in other fields of expression - theater, ballet, photography, literature, music. — Lester Beall

Who can worry about a career? Have a life. — Frances McDormand

I didn't know how living outdoors and sleeping on the ground in a tent each night and walking alone through the wilderness all day almost every day had come to feel like my normal life, but it had. It was the idea of not doing it that scared me. — Cheryl Strayed

The idea is that when the teaching begins to happen, it is an experience - but experience needs language, and at the same time, language needs experience. — Chogyam Trungpa

The cosmetic is cosmic. — Rem Koolhaas

I was 22 years old when I met Robert Johnson. I was there the night he was poisoned. — David Edwards

Look at The Beatles: how they struggled, how they worked in order to become such a good little band. And that's why they had such longevity and are still admired today. — Bjorn Ulvaeus