Ramus Quotes & Sayings

It's time for architecture to do things again, not just represent things. — Joshua Prince-Ramus

Architecture is not created by individuals. The genius sketch ... is a myth. Architecture is made by a team of committed people who work together, and in fact, success usually has more to do with dumb determination than with genius. — Joshua Prince-Ramus

You want the truth, of course. You want me to put two and two together. But two and two doesn't necessarily get you the truth. Two and two equals a voice outside the window. Two and two equals the wind. The living bird is not its labeled bones. — Margaret Atwood

The sand in the hour glass isn't meant to stick together. It will flow exactly same today, how it did ten years back. That's how much reliable that stuff is. The stuff that can be consistent. — Jasleen Kaur Gumber

Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made. — Joshua Prince-Ramus

Some people think architecture is about the genius sketch; I don't. Great architecture is a collaboration among a lot of people over a long period of time. — Joshua Prince-Ramus

Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process. — Joshua Prince-Ramus

I've felt it (shoulder soreness) since the first day I came, but more so now. Yesterday in the doubles I felt like I couldn't serve at all. I had a lot of pain. I decided to stop because without the serve it doesn't make any sense. It's better to stop and try to recover. If you play, you play 100 percent, not to suffer on the court ... Hopefully I'll be ready for the Australian Open. I'll ask for a late start and try to recover. I can playing forehand, backhand, anything except serve. — Marat Safin

In war the olive branch of peace is of use.
[Lat., Adjuvat in bello pacatae ramus olivae.] — Ovid

Our story was just like Romeo and Juliet. We were just two kids falling in love. But we didn't have that old Shakespearean insta-kind-of-love. Ours had a lot more to it. — Melissa M. Futrell

Conceit is to be dreaded, but so is cowardice — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up. — Charles M. Schulz

When I went to college, I thought I was going to become a professional musician. I was a French horn player, so I went to Yale to study with a very unusual French horn player. — Joshua Prince-Ramus

The cardinal sin is not being badly dressed, but wearing the right thing in the wrong place. — Edith Head

It was every teenage girl's dream to have a retreat of her own. — Chanda Hahn

It's not so much about form versus functionality. Rather, it's about doing both and doing them a lot and doing them well-and that's how we should be talking about architecture. — Joshua Prince-Ramus

I don't bite, Lucy.
She wanted him to. She wanted him to bite and suck and nibble and have his wicked way with her. She had a feeling he did things to a girl that made her body so turned on it took hours to turn off. — Robin Bielman

If you like not hanging, drown yourself; Take some course for your reputation. — Philip Massinger

Architects have created this fake separation between creation and execution. You can see it in architecture schools, where the students look down on going to contracts classes. — Joshua Prince-Ramus

Life was like a cannon, Beld Yulan had always said. "You've got to clear the empty casings before you can fire again." As — John Jackson Miller

Put your blog out into the world and hope that your talent will speak for itself. — Diablo Cody

Public libraries are the last vestige of public free space. — Joshua Prince-Ramus

'Form follows function' comes with so much baggage. It's a worthless phrase because you'll never take it for what it means. — Joshua Prince-Ramus

I always wanted to do something creative, but as much as I'm creative, it's in a really hard-core, right-brained way. For me, painting doesn't do it for me. There's no constraint. — Joshua Prince-Ramus

The shadow acts on instinct, not reason. — Erin Kellison

I have one of the original 'Ghostbusters' guns in my house. — Jason Reitman