"Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do this.' 'Oh, the budget.' I don't believe that anymore."

-- Frank Gehry

#Believe Quotes #Cities Quotes #Clients Quotes

“But what truly horsey girls discover in the end is that boyfriends, husbands, children, and careers are the substitute-for horses”
“At the end. First start off and do your youth thing In Hollywood and then go to New York later. But it wound up being later, later than I thought it was going to be.”
“That idea is so damned nonsensical and impossible that I'm willing to stand on the bridge of a battleship while that nitwit tries to hit if from the air.”
“My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it.”
“No bloody or unbloody change of society can eradicate the evil in man: as long as there will be men, there will be malice, envy and hatred, and hence there cannot be a society which does not have to employ coercive restraint.”

Source : Leo Strauss (1978). “The City and Man”, p.5, University of Chicago Press
“Apparently Jamie is great at being soft and hard at the same time. Which is hard to do for an actor! He's going to get an Oscar!”
“I realized very early that I was never going to make by living by writing string quartets. But I wanted to write music and I didn't want to have to do anything else.”
“We are no longer in the World of the Fourth Sun, but we are not yet in the World of the Fifth Sun. This is the time in-between, the time of transition. As we pass through transition there is a colossal, global convergence of environmental destruction, social chaos, war, and ongoing Earth Changes.”

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