"I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?"

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Philip Johnson

#Beach Quotes #Hate Quotes #Vacation Quotes

“What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel.”

Source : "Testimony" by Solomon Volkov, p. 229, 1979.
“My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.”
“Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.”
“I own nothing; I just stay with friends all over the country.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A sound soul dwells within a sound mind and a sound body.”
“There are countries in which public establishments are considered by the government as its own personal affair, so that it admits persons to them only according to its pleasure, just as a proprietor refuses at his pleasure admission into his house; they are a sort of administrative sanctuaries, into which no profane person can penetrate. These establishments, on the contrary, in the United States, are considered as belonging to all. The prisons are open to everyone who chooses to inspect them ad every visiter may inform himself of the order which regulates the interior.”
“When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego ... things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.”
“Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.”

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