Philip Johnson Quotes

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

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• Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • House
  • Man
  • Born

• I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Friends
  • Funny

• I don't speak Spanish, I speak a little of Italian but no Spanish.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Speak
  • Italian
  • Spanish

• There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.

  

  Quico Canseco
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Liberty

• A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.

  

  Sacha Guitry
  • Pretty
  • Man
  • Woman

• I still have my school friends who are actually friends. It's nice that they don't think much about my singing career. They think it is cool, and they are happy for me, but they don't really bother me about it. To them, I'm still just the schoolgirl from next door.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • School
  • Friends
  • Happy

• The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'

  

  Gail O'Grady
  • Reality
  • Show
  • Shark

• Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Light
  • Learning
  • Bible

• Sometimes, it's just unfortunate you get injured in the game. But you can definitely take strides to prevent those things.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Game
  • You
  • Sometimes

• I'm brilliant at cooking my stepmother's scrambled egg recipe. The secret is to put eggs, butter, milk, and seasoning together in the saucepan, and to keep stirring with a wooden spoon under a low heat until the preferred consistency is reached.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Together
  • Cooking
  • Consistency

• Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.

  

  Danai Gurira
  • Book
  • Day
  • Back

• A good leader must be fair.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Good
  • Leader
  • Fair

• I feel like I just have such the blood and bones of a New Yorker that I can almost imagine better, like, giving up the fight and not being able to afford the city and going out West, keeping a small place here, and then when I'm like 80, coming back here, living on the park and going to the theater.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Small

• We're not looking at banning all weapons.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • Looking
  • Weapons
  • Banning

• Is it the right thing to burn Qurans? Legally? Can pastor burn Quran tomorrow? People accept legally it is right. But is it the right thing to do? No.

  

  K. A. Paul
  • People
  • Tomorrow
  • Accept

• Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.

  

  Irving Berlin
  • Good
  • Great
  • Power

• If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Years
  • Movies
  • Two

• Eventually I got the call for 'Iron Man,' and I read sides that had nothing to do with what I did in the movie, and I performed it once while no one was in the room - it was videotaped, and I'm sure Shane Black was watching it from his helicopter or something. And then I got a call the next day that I was going down to shoot it.

  

  Adam Pally
  • Movie
  • Man
  • Black

• Women still need higher political representation and to be included at decision making tables in all issues in order for solutions that relates from peace to food, to health, to basic stability in the world. We cannot continue to marginalize half of the population in the world in finding sustainable solutions that are good for all.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • World
  • Good
  • Women

• What I would do is a 10-minute short of some kind on video, and if it's good enough, you get it passed around town and just get some attention, so then they'll read what you have.

  

  David Zucker
  • Good
  • Attention

• Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security, an immediate risk to our national security, and, make no mistake, it will impact how our military defends our country.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • Serious
  • Risk

• For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me.' Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Person
  • Books
  • Learned

• Early in my career, I didn't want to disappoint my colleagues, clients, or family. So I said yes to everything. This ended up raising my stress level and shortchanging everyone else - including myself - because I couldn't give anyone 100 percent of my time, nor could I pay close attention.

  

  John Rampton
  • Up
  • Time
  • Family

• I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

  

  Philip Johnson
  • Why
  • Hate
  • Beach