"The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth."

-- Michael Graves

#Ideas Quotes #Long Quotes #Architecture Quotes

“It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone.”

Source : Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.60
“Today's audience knows more about what's on television than what's in life.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.”

Source : Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1871). “Atlantic Essays”, p.18
“I don't play with a lot of finesse. I usually play like I'm breaking out of jail!”
“I typically don't use the distinction 'positive' and 'negative' liberty, because negative sounds bad and positive sounds good, and I don't think that the terminology ought to prejudice us one way or the other. So I think the more descriptive term is 'liberty rights' versus 'welfare rights'. So, liberty rights are freedom-of-action type rights, and welfare rights are rights-to-stuff, of various kinds...And, property rights are not rights-to-stuff. I think that's one of the key misunderstandings about property. Property rights are the rights to liberty within your jurisdiction.”
“Zimbabweans are so smart and witty and able to weave together tons of situations and experiences into terminologies that are just utterly original.”
“I love to compete. To me, business is the ultimate sport. It's always on. There is always someone trying to beat me.”
“People have a right to their own lives, and if you can't help somebody, you ought to get out of their way.”

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