Bertrand Delanoe famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Ernest Hemingway was always uneasy in New York and liked being there less than in any other city he frequented.

  • I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.

  • It is my plan to create a city that is direct and simple... To leave out all that is ugly, to eliminate the unnecessary, and to give Florida and the nation a resort city as perfect as study and ideals can make it.

  • You know, you look at the chaos in the conservative camp right now, it's only too tempting to blame it all on pot. But in fact, the Reagan revolution owes a lot to Reefer. For one thing, it's made the symptoms of senility socially acceptable.

  • It’s a known fact that in certain contexts people’s great strengths become their epic failings.

  • I hope my recordings of my own works won't inhibit other people's performances. The brutal fact is that one doesn't always get the exact tempo one wants, although one improves with experience.

  • My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside.

  • Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.

  • It is the task of the architect to give life a gentler structure.

  • The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.

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