Philip Johnson Quotes
I guess I can't be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the same, it would be pretty boring.Philip Johnson
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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.
Vernon Howard -
Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
Samuel Butler -
I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
Nas -
Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
Nancy Cartwright -
In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
Zhu Zhu -
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
Mae West
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The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the major branches of science.
Harold Urey -
Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
Warren Farrell -
Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
Kate Beckinsale -
I can bat in the morning, afternoon, evening, night, on ice, desert, wherever and whenever. It is almost nirvana for me. It takes me away from the stresses of life.
Gautam Gambhir -
Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
Sam Harris -
Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
Lady Bird Johnson
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If people want to find me, they can. They'll see a middle-aged woman wandering around the grocery store, looking to see what to buy for dinner.
S. E. Hinton -
Government bonds have basically been sold in the domestic market, so there is some sense of stability, but the amount of public debt is really severe... Japan must manage its finances with a sense of urgency.
Yoshihiko Noda -
You can write the best book you can, and that might still not be enough. Appeal isn't something that most writers can't strive for or identify. It's something even the best agents and editors can't always identify.
M. J. Rose -
The following Wednesday, I opted to go with Random House.
Laura Hillenbrand -
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
D. Elton Trueblood -
Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops for which the market price is highest.
Wendell Berry
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It's going to be so obvious when something isn't well made for VR. People are going to use the best VR content. That's the stuff that's going to get shown to people. That's the stuff that's going to get demoed. That's most of what people are going to buy.
Palmer Luckey -
Happiness is a continuous creative activity.
Baba Amte -
The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
Oscar Wilde -
It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
Louisa May Alcott -
I don't know if it's a romantic comedy but I'm in the beginning of the first of the season of 'The West Wing.' We shot it last year. I don't know. If anyone asks me to be in one, I'll jump on it.
Jason Isaacs -
I guess I can't be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the same, it would be pretty boring.
Philip Johnson