Mario Botta Quotes

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

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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

• 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
  • Way
  • You
  • Care

• As a company, we have to be very transparent. We are in a business very related to finance, and I want this company to last long, and I want this company to be audited by everyone.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Long
  • Business
  • Finance

• Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Important
  • You
  • Film

• It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world.

  Garry Kasparov
  • World
  • Long
  • Free

• If they do what missionaries do—study and learn language, become part of culture, proclaim the Good News, be the presence of Christ, and contextualize biblical life and church for that culture—they are missional churches.

  

  Ed Stetzer
  • Culture
  • Church
  • Language

• When I watch myself, I see nothing but faults, like, 'This I need to do different, this I need to do different,' and so if there comes a point in time where I'm like, 'Man, this whole thing is just getting really stale,' I am not opposed to being the bad guy again.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Time
  • Different
  • Bad

• I think I'm no different from any artist in music. At least once, you want to see your name up on the top.

  

  Chely Wright
  • Up
  • Music
  • Different

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

  

  Mario Botta
  • Church
  • Architecture