Philip Johnson Quotes

Processionalism is primary - how you get from one place to another, the relationships and effects of spaces as you move about in them. That's worked out awfully well in the State Theater. I'm a 'straight-in' man myself; I'm too nervous, I like to know where I am. I also like to know where I'm going.

Philip Johnson

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• I guess I'm lucky that I've been able to play a wide range of parts and a wide range of types of productions - I haven't felt much typecasting.

  

  Kali Hawk
  • Play
  • Lucky
  • Guess

• When I was in college, I was always saying I was a socialist.

  

  Edmund White
  • College
  • Always
  • Saying

• We live surrounded by critics, so let them talk, let them criticize me as much as they want. Ultimately, that makes me a better player.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Want
  • Me
  • Talk

• No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!

  

  Kate Moss
  • Movie
  • Perfect
  • Wine

• I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.

  

  Dan Chaon
  • Different
  • Working
  • Back

• People are realizing that color has no bearing on what's known as brotherhood.

  

  Omar Epps
  • People
  • Color
  • Brotherhood

• I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Think
  • Said
  • Go

• Talking about stepping down in five years is frankly not a topic of particular actuality now.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Years
  • Down
  • Now

• All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Earth
  • Military
  • Blue

• I have a feeling when I'm 80 years old I'm going to get a phone call: There's going to be another Rocky.

  

  Talia Shire
  • Feeling
  • Years
  • Phone

• Everyone has a breakup in their lives, and I think everyone should experience love.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Love
  • Experience
  • Lives

• I have never anticipated success. I choose work, give it my best shot, and leave it.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Work
  • Success
  • Best

• I would kiss you, had I the courage.

  

  Edouard Manet
  • You
  • Courage
  • Kiss

• My grandad was a miner. My father, brother, and uncles all work in industry.

  

  Faye Marsay
  • Work
  • Father
  • Brother

• I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.

  

  Kate Williams
  • History
  • Think
  • Want

• There's just something about dance. It's like a primal thing in all of us.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Like
  • Dance
  • Just

• If you look at that 2008 Democratic primary, there was no more formidable, unstoppable candidate - other than an incumbent President - in modern times than Hillary Clinton.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • You
  • Look
  • Democratic

• Shakespeare pulls on us and demands the best of us. You never successfully wrestle one of his plays to the ground and say, 'See? That's It!'

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • You
  • Best
  • See

• I've been very, very lucky in my career, in my life - from day one. When aspiring directors say, 'What's your advice?' first I say, 'Be born the son of a famous director. It's invaluable.'

  

  Jason Reitman
  • Life
  • Career
  • Son

• I love being a part of something so many people can relate to and enjoy.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • People
  • Enjoy
  • Part

• I'm far from being reclusive. I have 30- or 40-year friendships that I prefer to meeting new people. I go to an occasional party, but just because I don't go to a lot of events, and I'm not out in public all the time doesn't mean I'm anti-social or a recluse.

  

  Kirk Kerkorian
  • People
  • Time
  • Party

• The knowledge that mankind needs is not the way or principle which has an absolute existence, but the particular truths for here and now and for particular individuals. Absolute truth is imaginary, abstract, vague, without evidence, and cannot be demonstrated.

  

  Hu Shih
  • Existence
  • Individual
  • Mankind

• Processionalism is primary - how you get from one place to another, the relationships and effects of spaces as you move about in them. That's worked out awfully well in the State Theater. I'm a 'straight-in' man myself; I'm too nervous, I like to know where I am. I also like to know where I'm going.

  

  Philip Johnson