Zumthor Architect Quotes & Sayings

No fools are so difficult to manage as those with some brains. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

When you write songs, you're writing little bits here, little bits there. — Albert Hammond Jr.

For the Christian, ignorance is not bliss; it is negligence and carelessness. — Pedro Okoro

If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is not an artist. — Peter Zumthor

I'm a passionate architect ... I do not work for money — Peter Zumthor

Every third night a commitee holds a meeting in my head. — James Lee Burke

Heroism' often consists in keeping your head in an emergency and doing the best you can with what you have instead of panicking and being shot in the tail. People who fight this way win more battles than do intentional heroes; a glory hound often throws away the lives of his mates as well as his own. — Robert A. Heinlein

Happiness isn't about what happens to us - it's about how we perceive what happens to us. It's the knack of finding a positive for every negative, and viewing a setback as a challenge. If we can just stop wishing for what we don't have, and start enjoying what we do have, our lives can be richer; more fulfilled - and happier. The time to be happy is now ... — Lyn Peters

Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not. — Ieyasu Tokugawa

It is important to me that everybody who has been hurt know that the sorrow I feel is genuine: First and most important, my family; also my friends, my staff, my Cabinet, Monica Lewinsky and her family, and the American people. I have asked all for their forgiveness. — William J. Clinton

In August in Mississippi there's a few days somewhere about the middle of the month when suddenly there's a foretaste of fall, it's cool, there's a lambence, a soft, a luminous quality to the light, as though it came not from just today but from back in the old classic times. It might have fauns and satyrs and the gods and
from Greece, from Olympus in it somewhere. It lasts just for a day or two, then it's gone ... the title reminded me of that time, of a luminosity older than our Christian civilization. — William Faulkner