Koolhaas Architect Quotes & Sayings

You can think deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper into a subject, depending on what you are writing about. — Douglas McGrath

Don't worry, Eve, whatever we end up doing, I'm not leaving you. Not until I teach you how to fire a gun, anyway." Jake snorted loudly. Avery lifted his head and gave him a dirty look. "Do you think that's funny? Eve needs to know how to protect herself." His smile twisted. "A woman with a gun is a bad idea, boy. You'd be putting all our lives at risk." "Only your life," I muttered under my breath. From the way his lips twitched further, I knew he had heard me. — Karina Halle

For any YouTuber, if you're too nervous to have somebody else document, it may be that what you're putting out there isn't authentic. — Tyler Oakley

Little did Crystal know that once you got hooked on knitting you would not merely "like the yarn you were working with," but become obsessed with the stuff, craving it, longing for it, fascinated by yarn as if you were under a spell. You'd see a skein of yarn somewhere and feel you just had to have it . . . or die. — Anne Canadeo

The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox. — Rem Koolhaas

There was nothing magical that the coaching staff did. This is about the players. — Bill Laimbeer

Abstinence, being faithful and correct and consistent condom use are the only ways to successfully reach everyone when discussing HIV prevention. I believe that the abstinence message alone does not solve the AIDS epidemic. — Ashley Judd

Wiley's blade of a nose was busted, and one of his arms, Reacher thought, from the way he was holding it. His other hand was pressed hard against his stomach. Bright red blood was pulsing out between his fingers. He was staring blankly at the far horizon, with wide-open tragedy in his eyes. More shock and misery than Reacher had ever seen before. More abject crushing disappointment, more pain, more betrayal, more open-mouthed incredulity at the unlikely ways the world can crush a person. Reacher — Lee Child

Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the street. This is an arrogant assertion and not necessarily a true one. — Gavin Bryars

As an architect, I always have mixed feelings. On the one hand, your fingers are itching. As a human being, you are happy to participate in the indolence. — Rem Koolhaas

When you love yourself, when you appreciate yourself, and are able to make peace with yourself, then because you are the same energy as the universe, it responds. It loves you in return, appreciates you in return, and makes its peace with you in return. — Stephen Richards

Greatness is a property for which no man can receive credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Because I believe, even in times of hardship, there's something positive to salvage, even if we have to sift, piece by tattered piece, through the scraps of our trials to find it. — Brenda J. Otto

After years studying informality in Nigeria, Dutch architect and planner Rem Koolhaas reach the same conclusion. In the West, he writes, "there's a sense of infinite choice, but a very conventional set of options from which to choose." By contrast, "in Lagos, there is no choice, but there are countless ways to articulate the condition of no choice. — Dayo Olopade

There are essentially two possibilities. One is to be, shall we say, an average architect and do the same thing everywhere. The other is to let yourself be inspired and even changed by the unique qualities of the place where you're building. We always try to take the second approach. — Rem Koolhaas

I have always tried to be a woman who protects other women. I have a sister, I have daughters, I have girlfriends, and I was raised by a feminist mother. — Nicole Kidman

For the average American freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more. — Gore Vidal

The word 'celebrity' and the word 'architect' are basically incompatible. — Rem Koolhaas

You can close the city gates, but you can't close the people's mouths. — Ella Leya

Even if I did climb to the top of that mountain one day, people will never stop seeing my color first, before me. — Stacey Lee