Seidler Quotes & Sayings

The government only makes restrictive rules, they don't show you what to do so you know, OK, here's where we need this many apartments, with open space, playgrounds, kindergartens. — Harry Seidler

I'm not saying I want a film career because I think I'm too good for television. I'm simply saying I want more control over my life. — Matthew Fox

Doubt is not an offense. Questioning is a step toward understanding. I am riven by beauty. I am humbled by grace. I strive to be kind, but not because I was told to. — Laurie Seidler

I've kind of got an out in cancer. It keeps things in perspective for me. — Eric Shanteau

The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs. — Harry Seidler

So, what are you going to do about it?"
"Watch this!"
"Oh, that's just freaking great. 'Watch this!' The two most dangerous words in the English language. I'm getting out of here before lightning strikes. — Theodore Jerome Cohen

Good design doesn't date. — Harry Seidler

You're kinda striding the line of what's yours and theirs. What's yours (points to us), what's mine, what's ours as creators of it and what's yours as owners. — David Duchovny

I've always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that. — Harry Seidler

Borne out of this, starting around the 17th Century was the Baroque era. It is my view that it is one of the architectural peak periods in western civilisation. — Harry Seidler

President Bush is supporting Arnold but a lot of Republicans are not, because he is actually quite liberal. Karl Rove said if his father wasn't a Nazi, he wouldn't have any credibility with conservatives at all. — Bill Maher

After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration. — Harry Seidler

You flourish one hushed breath at a time. Imagine all you can build word by single word. — Laurie Seidler

Start with the soul and end with the sale. Not the other way around. — C.C. Chapman

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all. — Harry Seidler

Pierre-Jean Jouve writes: "poetry is a soul inaugurating form". The soul inaugurates. Here it is the supreme power. It is human dignity. Even if the "form" was already well-known, previously discovered, carved from "commonplaces", before the interior poetic light was turned upon it, it was a mere object for the mind. But the soul comes and inaugurates the form, dwells in it, takes pleasure in it. — Gaston Bachelard

Universal or quantum consciousness emphasizes that we are all interrelated, interconnected and interdependent. — Gian Kumar

You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wallpaper is in flames. — Lloyd Jones

My theory is you shouldn't apologize for believing in an idea-channeling muse. You should just be sure to feed her. — Laurie Seidler

Language is a door. Words en-trance and are an entrance; they draw you in. When you read, the book you cradle disappears and the tales within unfold in your mind. Writing is a shelter of words and reading an interior adventure. — Laurie Seidler

Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They'll believe anything they see in print. — E.B. White

Japan's humid and warm summer climate, as well as frequent earthquakes resulted in lightweight timber buildings raised off the ground that are resistant to earth tremors. — Harry Seidler

People who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it's not easily controlled. — Bob Goff

The form language used by the ancient Egyptians in their structures is minimal. — Harry Seidler

Fuck that!" My turn to drop the scroll-case as though it were hot. " ... your stewardness."
"'Highness' is the correct form of address when the steward is of noble birth ... if we're being formal, Jalan."
"Fuck that, your highness. — Mark Lawrence

As we all saw in grade school, once you learn how to read a book, somebody is going to want to write one - that's how authors are made. Once we know how to read our own genetic code, someone is going to want to rewrite that 'text,' tinker with traits - play God, some would say. — Gregory Benford

After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings. — Harry Seidler

You can't be loyal to others if you're not loyal to your own nature first. — Tor Seidler

At the age of 80, I'm becoming a visual artist. This could be my rebirth. — Harry Seidler

Mondays are the start of the work week which offer new beginnings 52 times a year! — David Dweck

Fifty years ago people were talking about Sydney's sprawl, but nobody does anything about it. — Harry Seidler

As much as the needs of fact, the needs of the spirit and the senses, must be satisfied. Architecture is as much a part of the realm of art as it is of technology; the fusion of thinking and feeling. — Harry Seidler

From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber. — Harry Seidler

I never much cared for politics. I love policy, and I love international policy in particular. I got to be Secretary of State; it really doesn't get much better than that. I love what I do. I love being a professor. — Condoleezza Rice

If there is one country and its people that have contributed most to western civilisation's man-made world continuously for the last 2000 years, it must surely be Italy. — Harry Seidler