Peter Eisenman Quotes

I am immersed in architecture all day, working in my office or teaching.

Peter Eisenman

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• The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Winning
  • Beauty
  • Greatest

• When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Time
  • Great
  • Power

• Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Goal
  • Gift
  • Adulthood

• There's more student debt than credit card debt! Everywhere I go, I run into young people trying to build careers while they keep shelling out money on their education loans. If the economy is looking for a new generation of home-buyers, I can't imagine they'll get it from these folks.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Trying
  • Money

• I have already reached out to the janata, and I am only trying to acquaint myself with people's problems.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • People
  • Problems
  • Acquaint

• Fans tend to get too excited by streaks of either kind and I think the press does too. There should be a happy medium.

  

  Walt Alston
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Kind

• I immediately called the command center of the Department of Justice to let them know that my wife was on a plane that had been hijacked. I mainly wanted them know there was another hijacked plane out there.

  

  Ted Olson
  • Know
  • Wife
  • Justice

• Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Enthusiasm
  • Negativity

• I am permanently relaxed.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Relaxed

• I'm not closing the door on my solo career, but with 5th Story, if the public demand is there, then I'll continue to work with the band. If not, we'll all go our separate ways again.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Work
  • Career
  • Band

• Everybody is different. Everybody has different styles. Just do it the best way you know how.

  

  Vince Carter
  • Different
  • You
  • Know

• The fall of 1912 my fielding was above the average, but my hitting was not so good. However, I was the talk of the town because of my peculiar way of catching a fly ball. They later named it the Vest-Pocket Catch.

  

  Rabbit Maranville
  • Good
  • Fall
  • Fly

• You always end up saying and doing such horrible things to your family, 'cause you know they're never going anywhere, and at some point, they're going to forgive you.

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Up
  • Family
  • End

• I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Reader
  • Throw
  • Voracious

• I began as a model, but that did not really hold my interest for too long! I believe I stood out from the parade of models trying to make it in Hollywood, which helped launch my career beyond the one-night-stand horror movie.

  

  Natasha Henstridge
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Trying

• It has not been hard to grow older, because I believe if you have something you believe in, that will keep you alive far more than plastic surgery or Botox.

  

  Veruschka von Lehndorff
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Grow

• Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Power
  • Past

• Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Love
  • Friendship
  • For Her

• The goalkeeper plays in a psychological position, and he's dealing with mental things. I wanted to describe the things I've done wrong and, most of all, what I've done right, so that other people, including those in other professions, could learn from my experiences.

  

  Oliver Kahn
  • Position
  • Psychological
  • Goalkeeper

• Simply racing a Formula 1 car is an achievement.

  

  Sebastian Vettel
  • Achievement
  • Racing

• You cannot judge the value of a life by its quantity. It is by the joy that you are feeling. The more joyful you are, the longer you live. Let yourself relax and breathe and be free and be joyous, and romp.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Joy
  • Feelings
  • Breathe

• We need to rediscover the essence of the meaning of 'the use.' Architecture is, above all, here for a better living. Every gesture, every shape must be justified by various reasons that would reinforce their reason to be, their use, and will give more sense to their beauty.

  

  Christian de Portzamparc
  • Architecture

• I am immersed in architecture all day, working in my office or teaching.

  

  Peter Eisenman
  • Architecture