Robert A Stern Quotes & Sayings

Books you've read are like old friends. You look up and you see a title that you've read and had pleasure from and it makes you feel very comfortable.
~Robert A.M. Stern, Architect — Estelle Ellis

Our greatest responsibility is not to be pencils of the past. — Robert A. M. Stern

I think perhaps people have too limited a view of where they can put books. They believe they have to be in a room specified as 'the library.' I think books can be anywhere in a house. Piles of books in corners do not offend me. Putting books in the dining room is a wonderful idea. My idea of heaven would be to dine, as well as to sleep, surrounded by books.
~Robert A.M. Stern, Architect — Estelle Ellis

Now a promise made is a debt unpaid,
and the trail has its own stern code. — Robert W. Service

Steve had just met the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. Until now his engagement to Christine had never been a concern. — Stephen Douglass

My cat speaks sign language with her tail. — Robert A. M. Stern

It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know. — Floyd Abrams

They never listened until it was too late, and then only with stern forbearance and strong reminders of what might have been - had things been as they were perceived to be, which they were not. — Robert Ludlum

The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams. — Robert A. M. Stern

Though the gospel amnesty which grace proclaims makes no exceptions, for Divine grace has no limits, there are limits to the time within which the amnesty avails. And if sinners despise grace there is nothing for them but judgment, stern and inexorable. — Robert Anderson

First you learn the instrument, then you learn the music, then you forget all that s**t and just play. — Charlie Parker

The lonely sunsets flare forlorn Down valleys dreadly desolate; The lonely mountains soar in scorn As still as death, as stern as fate. — Robert W. Service

That was the shocking part. Here we were in the midst of everything and this potentially giant story was being told and virtually noone was there. — Robert A. M. Stern

Buildings should not look like Lady Gaga. — Robert A. M. Stern

Communities of tract houses, plopped on a grid, represent a way of throwing historical forms around like bouillabaisse. — Robert A. M. Stern

I have throbbing headaches about a lot of things, and Howard Stern isn't one of them. — Robert Greenblatt

Being "up to something" was the unnamable and unforgiveable crime for which any American male could be indicted, tried, convicted, and sentenced in one breath. He wondered how things had gotten rigged so that the male half of the race must always behave to suit feminine rules and feminine logic, like a snotty-nosed school boy in front of a stern teacher. — Robert A. Heinlein

Your mind grows through use. — Grenville Kleiser

The American dream has always depended on the dialogue between the present and the past. In our architecture, as in all our other arts-indeed, as in our political and social culture as a whole-ours has been a struggle to formulate and sustain a usable past. — Robert A. M. Stern

The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. If you wish to be loved, love measure. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We carry about us the burden of what thousands of people have said and the memories of all our misfortunes. To abandon all that is to be alone, and the mind that is alone is not only innocent but young
not in time or age, but young, innocent, alive at whatever age
and only such a mind can see that which is truth and that which is not measurable by words. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

To be an architect is to possess an individual voice speaking a generally understood language of form. — Robert A. M. Stern

When I am billeted a German home even for one night I go out and search for the chickens and rabbits or pets and give them water and food if possible. Generally the family has pulled out too rapidly to care for such things. I suppose the stern and the cruel ones rule the world. If so, I shall be content to try to live each day within the limits of my conscience and let great plaudits go to those who are willing to pay the price for it. — Robert M. Edsel