Peter Zumthor Quotes
I grew up in a craftsman's home, where things were done with our own hands. I did cabinetmaking for four years and I hated it.Peter Zumthor
Quotes to Explore
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An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
Sam Francis -
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.
Yitzhak Rabin -
The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
I. M. Pei -
I had a great AP U.S. History teacher in Pittsburgh. We still exchange Christmas cards. She was the first teacher who said I was a good writer - and I'd never heard that before. And so I remember that, and I remember that level of loving the material and really loving writing about it.
Nathaniel Philbrick -
Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
Barbara Jordan
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
Walt Whitman -
You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
Inga Cadranel -
Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
Larry King -
In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
Daniel Clowes -
In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.
Randy Lerner -
All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
Gary Weiss
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
Yoko Ono -
I want to win football games.
Victor Cruz -
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'
Sam Smith -
Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.
Rachel Sklar -
Men think a woman should not have an opinion.
Zaha Hadid
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I write something that I believe I've made up, and it's only when a friend later points it out to me that I realise I've been writing about myself again.
Jo Nesbo -
I'm a walk-on guy. When the director says, 'Action,' I'm on.
Kelsey Grammer -
You can't be vain as an actor. In 'Ab Fab,' we were made up as old women with bald wigs and jowly necks, and we looked fantastic.
Joanna Lumley -
'Washio' provides laundry and dry cleaning on demand. They pick it up, clean it, and return it within 24 hours - and often with a cookie. No more forgetting to pick up the dry-cleaning or wasting time in line.
Yael Cohen -
So I was surprised at the notion that I might have brought anthrax to my home, and would have been even amused if it was not for the fact that this matter is so grave and serious.
Steven Hatfill -
I grew up in a craftsman's home, where things were done with our own hands. I did cabinetmaking for four years and I hated it.
Peter Zumthor