Mario Botta Quotes

Church architecture describes visually the idea of the sacred, which is a fundamental need of man.

Mario Botta

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• When we manage a restaurant, we start making money from the first day. When we own a place, it's often five years before we earn the first penny that is clean of debt.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Money
  • Day
  • Start

• The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • World
  • Control
  • Eyes

• The first job I ever had was singing in a jazz club when I was like 15 with my friend, and we earned like 70 bucks. We were like, 'Oh my God!'

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • God
  • Job
  • Friend

• If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • World
  • Think
  • End

• Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.

  

  Barbara Smith
  • Important
  • Women
  • Experience

• I used to be more of a wild kid. But I've slowed down.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Down
  • Kid
  • WIld

• I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Money
  • Through
  • Some

• Good twists are enormously hard to come by, and I think the best ones are earned ones. The idea that a story can take a left turn on you, it's easy to do, but it has to be done very, very carefully, or else you risk losing the audience's trust.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Good
  • Done
  • Best

• In the 90's action pictures were all the rage. As a woman, I was fed up with them and I initially thought that the script was just another action film dressed up as a period piece.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Up
  • Action
  • Woman

• I really have a great deal of humility in that department, and a great deal of respect for people who spend their lives learning how to make these amazing preparations.

  

  Ted Allen
  • People
  • Great
  • Respect

• In early Islam, it was an absolute tenet that the prophet was not to be worshipped. The prophet was a messenger. And one of the things that's happened in Islam is this cult of the prophet, which to my view is counter to the original tradition.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Tradition
  • View
  • Islam

• How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Up
  • Time
  • Movie

• I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Moving
  • Stupid
  • Mountains

• The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • America
  • High
  • Soul

• Usually, in musical theater, if you sing operatically or if you sing in a legit style, you're the heart of the show. You maybe get to be moving and do dramatic stuff, but it's very rare to be that funny.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Heart
  • Funny
  • Moving

• I've been dancing since I was seven, but I never really developed a regimen until I was on Broadway and responsible for a professional performance every night.

  

  Kate Levering
  • Night
  • Professional
  • Performance

• After I can be happy with knowing that I did what I wanted to do.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Happy
  • I Can
  • Be Happy

• Nobody's gonna care about your stuff the way you do.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • You
  • Way
  • Care

• Since I'm not a fashion model, there's a limit to how nice I can make myself. I don't regard myself as an ugly person, but I don't think of myself as someone who would choose to be a model. I'm somebody who might be, I'd like to think, a role model for people who want to become lawyers.

  

  Cherie Blair
  • People
  • Nice
  • Fashion

• I had experiences or exposure to music in church. I went to a church, it was very unique. It was a predominantly African American Catholic church. So they would have - one mass would be traditional church music, and then the other mass would be gospel music.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Music
  • American
  • Church

• I sang in the choir growing up and more recently served on the worship team at my church in California.

  

  Deborah Joy Winans
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Team

• Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty.

  

  Ada Louise Huxtable
  • Beauty
  • Architecture
  • Synthesis

• Before taking final leave of me, my instructor inquired concerning my physical strength, and I was able to inform him that I hadn't any.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Strength
  • Leave
  • Instructor

• Church architecture describes visually the idea of the sacred, which is a fundamental need of man.

  

  Mario Botta
  • Church
  • Architecture