Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes

Here I am, Philip, am I indoors or am I out? Do I take my hat off or keep it on?

Frank Lloyd Wright

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• If I didn't make it in baseball, I won't have made it workin'. I didn't like to work.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Work
  • Like
  • Baseball

• I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Action
  • Doing

• We know that reading to children is a crucial step. From the beginning, babies who are read to are exposed to the cadence of language, and school-age children who read at home for 15 minutes a day are exposed to millions of words.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Children
  • School
  • Home

• I have a feeling there were many, many successful rock duos that just didn't get attention. That's the fault of the rock press. They are always playing up controversy, scandal, aggravation, and irritation.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Attention

• I really love peace and quiet.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Love
  • Peace
  • Quiet

• There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.

  

  Walter Salles
  • America
  • Present
  • Latin

• But I'm after medals more than anything. Championships don't get taken away from you but records do, so I think I'd rather have medals at every championships rather than times. A world record would be a bonus, but I'm still only 25 in 17 days.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • World
  • Think
  • Taken

• God created the universe in such a manner that all in common might derive their food from it, and that the Earth should also be a property common to all.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • God
  • Earth
  • Food

• I just feel like giving people a voice to something.

  

  Taylor Dye
  • People
  • Giving
  • Voice

• To survive as a species on this planet, we're going to have to see ourselves as Earthlings.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • See
  • Survive
  • Planet

• I would come to understand there is no poem separable from its source. I began to see that poems are not just an individual florescence. They are also a vast root system growing down into ideas and understandings. Almost unbidden, they tap into the history and evolution of art and language.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Art
  • History
  • Growing

• A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Country

• Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Good

• God is an utter Nothingness, Beyond the touch of Time and Place: The more thou graspest after Him, The more he fleeth thy embrace.

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • Time
  • God

• I love to fight. I love the preparation. I love to learn new things, always overcoming myself.

  

  Anderson Silva
  • Preparation
  • Overcoming

• Oil has allowed us to think about economics as though energy doesn't matter.

  

  Andrew Nikiforuk
  • Energy

• I see the most change in my body through exercise. They say diet determines your weight, and exercise determines your shape - I find that to be a pretty true statement. When I'm doing a lot of boxing, my hamstrings are really strong and my biceps. When I'm doing a lot of Pilates, I find that my core is really lean and my inner thighs.

  

  Hannah Bronfman
  • True
  • Pretty
  • Strong

• I enjoy wine collecting and great food.

  

  Deep Roy
  • Great
  • Food
  • Wine

• And in the end blood and tears are alike because they stop too.

  

  Elizabeth Scott
  • Stop
  • Tears
  • Blood

• Katherine it was who took upon herself the complete charge of Junior's speech. Not an insignificant "have went" nor an infinitesimal "I seen" ever escaped the keen ears of his eldest sister, who immediately corrected him. Mother sometimes thought Katherine a little severe when, in the interest of proper speaking, she would stop him in the midst of an exciting account of a home-run. There were times, thought Mother, when the spirit of the thing was so much more important than the flesh in which it was clothed.

  

  Bess Streeter Aldrich
  • Spirit
  • Sister
  • Speech

• Through the fortunate effect of my frankness, I had the rarest and surest opportunity to know a man well, which is to study him at leisure in his private life and living, so to speak, with himself. For he share himself without reservation and made me feel as much at home in his house as in mine. I had almost no other abode than his own.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Life
  • Home
  • House

• The lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis is plain: Strength prevents war; weakness invites it. We need a commander-in-chief who understands that - and who won't leave us facing a foe who thinks he doesn't.

  

  Arthur L. Herman
  • War

• Each of the CDs prior to 'Flirting With Twilight' were more like roller-coaster rides.

  

  Kurt Elling
  • Twilight

• Here I am, Philip, am I indoors or am I out? Do I take my hat off or keep it on?

  

  Frank Lloyd Wright