Bernard Tschumi Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
It's those damn critics again.
-
I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
-
It's like driving your car. If you drive too fast on the highway, you will topple, so you better maintain your speed. Life is similar to that, and that's the way you have to control your head.
-
A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
-
When I pull into a city and I rent a car and it's Nashville, or it's London, or I'm driving in the taxi to the hotel, and on comes one of my songs, it's like, 'Oh my God, they're still playing these songs on the radio.' And you still feel tearful and very grateful that somebody still likes these songs that you made up.
-
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
-
I love Tom Kenny. And Jill Talley. And Jennifer Aniston, too!
-
Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.
-
Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
-
Above all, we must avoid the pitfalls of tribalism. If we are divided among ourselves on tribal lines, we open our doors to foreign intervention and its potentially harmful consequences.
-
I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops.
-
I'm quite good at not writing.
-
Certain it is that their power increased always in an exact proportion to the weakness of the Caliphate, and, without doubt, in some of the most distracted periods of the Arabian rule, the Hebrew Princes rose into some degree of local and temporary importance.
-
The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.
-
I've just always been a bit of a dork.
-
There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinion of men of true discernment and real worth. But to have a name among the weak and the wicked is shame and reproach.
-
From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.
-
I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor.
-
I'd like to direct something at the Public.
-
My father was military, so I traveled a lot, so I had 13 to 15 first days in new schools. Bullies transcend culture, unfortunately, and I had to deal with them wherever I went. I knew how to defend myself. But I didn't know how to fight.
-
When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book.
-
I usually don't share the music with the musicians until right before they have to record their parts, because I hate discussing it and just intellectualizing it on any level. I just want to speak from the subconscious, which knows way more about me than my intellectual side will ever know. Once I start doing the arrangements - what I call the architecture of the song - that has a lot of thought put into it.
-
Acheson 'never for one moment believed that the holding of office was a source of power – it was an obligation of service.'
-
I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret.
