Peter Zumthor Quotes

I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space.

Peter Zumthor

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• I realized I made a big mistake and if I could have it over again, I would do it so much differently.

  

  Hansie Cronje
  • Mistake
  • Big
  • Over

• I turned down a lot of films.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Down
  • Films
  • Lot

• The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Men
  • Women
  • Problem

• The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Movie
  • Beautiful
  • Song

• You must be independent and able to do for yourself. Then you do not have to marry a rich man; you can marry a poor one. And if it is wrong, you can go.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Man
  • Independent
  • Yourself

• Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Movies
  • Successful
  • Stars

• There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • Like
  • Courtesy
  • Defence

• I became a clown when these docs came to the house in Berkeley and asked me to come cheer up kids. I'd just had my third spinal fusion and I was looking for something to take my mind off the pain I was in.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Mind
  • Kids
  • Cheer

• I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • People
  • Culture
  • Stop

• The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • City
  • Woman
  • Sex

• I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Science
  • Science fiction

• Fame came quickly. I was only 19 when I secured my initial recording contract and my first two hit records - 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and 'Cars' - were number ones.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Friends
  • First
  • Fame

• The whole point of the kingdom of God is Jesus has come to bear witness to the true truth, which is nonviolent. When God wants to take charge of the world, he doesn't send in the tanks. He sends in the poor and the meek.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • World
  • God
  • Truth

• I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Good
  • Work
  • Movie

• I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • People
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• It's human nature that we come in our own flavours, and it doesn't make any sense to write a monochromatic or monocultural story unless you're doing something extremely small - a locked room-style story.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Nature
  • Small
  • Style

• Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Think
  • Language
  • Magic

• Winning one league title at Roma, to me, is worth winning 10 at Juventus or Real Madrid.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Me
  • Winning
  • Worth

• The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Never
  • Type
  • Handsome

• Parents are supposed to give the child back to herself with love. If they've got duct tape over their eyes because of narcissism, it doesn't happen.

  

  Jane Fonda
  • Parents
  • Eyes

• Death makes us sad, but it can also make us feel more alive.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Death
  • Feel
  • Sad

• No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Money
  • Matter
  • Street

• Cultists do not want to admit they have been manipulated by charisma. Nigerian money scheme victims do not want to accept that they had been swindled. To accept those realities is to accept their own faults. Denial of our own weaknesses is something we all suffer from time to time.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Time
  • Money
  • Want

• I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space.

  

  Peter Zumthor
  • Money
  • Space
  • Passion