Peter Zumthor Quotes

I'm not mainly interested in what buildings mean as symbols or vehicles for ideas.

Peter Zumthor

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• I got no hate in me.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Hate
  • Me
  • Got

• I wanted to get some nose job, because I don't like how my nose tip looks. My hand is also not as pretty, especially my thumb nails. Many people told me that I have ugly hands.

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • People
  • Job
  • Pretty

• I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Up
  • World
  • Country

• I hate competition.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Hate
  • Competition

• Most people think of cinematographers as choosing subjects of an epic nature to show off what they do - big, sweeping images of war or pageantry.

  

  Caleb Deschanel
  • People
  • War
  • Nature

• The United Nations Children's Fund reports that more than 18 million children worldwide have lost both parents to the ravages of AIDS, starvation, war or natural disasters.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Children
  • War
  • Parents

• I don't have any outside view of myself, and if I did, I would probably be creatively inhibited. I just write in the way that I write.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Way
  • Myself
  • View

• As a kid, I was obsessed with space. Well, I was obsessed with nuclear science too, to a point, but before that, I was obsessed with space, and I was really excited about, you know, being an astronaut and designing rockets, which was something that was always exciting to me.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Science
  • Kid
  • Excited

• You can be very famous without being a great actress, and that's not good for me.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Good
  • Great
  • Famous

• I so believe that older women have tremendous value to their families, their community, their country, the world.

  

  Sally Field
  • World
  • Believe
  • Women

• My friends in college, several of whom are still my closest companions, would tell you that I was almost obsessed with becoming - fixated on creating - the future that I envisioned for myself: one of expanding to know my fullest self, which I have in no way achieved.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Friends
  • Future
  • College

• It is common, and encouraged by many journals, for research to be judged by the impact factor of the journal that publishes it. But as a journal's score is an average, it says little about the quality of any individual piece of research.

  

  Randy Schekman
  • Quality
  • Research
  • Impact

• I think that sexiness should be in the subtleties.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Think
  • Should
  • Sexiness

• I hate to wait. When I want something, I want it now.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Want
  • Hate
  • Wait

• Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Character
  • Always
  • Fiction

• I like physical comedy. And I like the old comedies.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Comedy
  • Like
  • Old

• I get a lot of people that say, 'You know what, I heard that you're a painter, and I thought, 'Oh, another model who is saying she's an artist.' They assumed it was going to be a few splashes on a canvas.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • People
  • She
  • Thought

• I remember going to church about four times a week. I liked it a lot.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Remember
  • Church
  • Week

• Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which was implicit in Adam Smith's moral philosophy, but which was suppressed for a century by prevailing interest in the technique of the production of wealth.

  

  Albion W. Small
  • Up
  • Moral

• She has no idea who I am, not really. She's just someone who's noticed me because the video and she'll forget what she's said before the day is over. Me? Not so much, but I go on, my legs shaking and a mix of anger and despair burning inside me.

  

  Elizabeth Scott
  • Anger
  • Despair
  • Video

• I'm a very spiritual person. And it affects my work greatly.

  

  Erin Davie
  • Spiritual
  • Persons

• Sitting in the flickering light of the candles on this kerchief of sand, on this village square, we waited in the night. We were waiting for the rescuing dawn - or for the Moors. Something, I know not what, lent this night a savor of Christmas. We told stories, we joked, we sang songs. In the air there was that slight fever that reigns over a gaily prepared feast. And yet we were infinitely poor. Wind, sand, and stars. The austerity of Trappists. But on this badly lighted cloth, a handful of men who possessed nothing in the world but their memories were sharing invisible riches.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Air
  • Memories
  • Songs

• I'm not mainly interested in what buildings mean as symbols or vehicles for ideas.

  

  Peter Zumthor