Peter Zumthor Quotes

My first buildings, when I was about 30, were rejected for aesthetic reasons.

Peter Zumthor

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• I start the day with oatmeal with vanilla almond milk. If I don't, I'm dying by noon and eating everything in sight. On-set, I avoid crap and pack soup and salad. I cook pork chops or turkey tacos for dinner.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Day
  • Dying
  • Start

• I do think that people outside the fashion industry imagine that being a model is what you might call quick, easy money, but it can be very lonely - you have to be quite tough. It's also very physically demanding.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • People
  • Money
  • Fashion

• Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.

  

  Mackenzie Crook
  • Money
  • Star
  • Box

• I went to about one frat party a year. A year seemed to be enough time for me to forget how much I didn't like frat parties, and my friends would eventually convince me to go to one. Cheap beer, guys looking for a quick hook-up, and girls playing 'dumb' to get in on the hook-up. I just never got into it.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Up
  • Time
  • Friends

• Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Stop
  • Never
  • Company

• I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Think
  • Author
  • Coffee

• Sometimes my arm wants to throw a hard fastball, but my brain doesn't want to throw it that hard.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • Want
  • Brain
  • Sometimes

• In design-speak, 'a library' means a room lined with books, floor-to ceiling, but it all depends on the space you have. You may have a free-standing bookshelf of your favorite books if that's all you have room for.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • May
  • Free
  • Space

• I've learned to be pragmatic, but I don't sacrifice my principles, my values.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Sacrifice
  • Values
  • Pragmatic

• The work of healing is not my work, but by faith, healing is done. The work of deliverance, great and mighty deliverance, is not my work but is my faith in Him. It is not the works of righteousness which I have done, but according to His grace. I am a product of His grace.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Work
  • Great
  • Done

• I have a family and two cats; I get up with my kids early in the morning.

  

  Vanna White
  • Up
  • Family
  • Kids

• I'm a total performer.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Performer
  • Total

• All ages before ours believed in gods in some form or other. Only an unparalleled impoverishment in symbolism could enable us to rediscover the gods as psychic factors, which is to say, as archetypes of the unconscious. No doubt this discovery is hardly credible as yet.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Doubt

• I never started to plow in my life That some one did not stop in the road And take me away to a dance or picnic. I ended up with forty acres; I ended up with a broken fiddle -And a broken laugh, and a thousand memories, And not a single regret.

  

  Edgar Lee Masters
  • Life
  • Up
  • Stop

• Once a man's thirty, he's already old,He is indeed as good as dead.It's best to kill him right away.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Good

• Professionally he declines and falls, and as a friend he drops into poetry.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Friend
  • Poetry

• The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond which Central African crops couldn't grow - with enormous consequences for the recent history of South Africa.

  

  Jared Diamond
  • History

• Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normalized for how well we think each person is going to get along with the other person - the only factor left in determining response rate, really, is the aesthetic appearance of the person who sent you that message.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Think
  • Aesthetic
  • Appearance

• What I really, really want to do is pre-packaged meals. Fabulous versions that are delicious, healthy, not too expensive and very low in fat. So, that's my big dream, because there's a massive hole in the market for that.

  

  Elizabeth Hurley
  • Dream

• I felt obligated to change music to art, the same way that Galileo proved the Earth was round to the world and that the Sun did not stand still.

  

  Phil Spector
  • World
  • Music
  • Art

• The distance that the dead have gone Does not at first appear; Their coming back seems possible For many an ardent year.And then, that we have followed them We more than half suspect, So intimate have we become With their dear retrospect.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Distance

• My first buildings, when I was about 30, were rejected for aesthetic reasons.

  

  Peter Zumthor
  • Aesthetic