Paul Goldberger Quotes

I don't usually go in for reviews of buildings that aren't yet built, since you can tell only so much from drawings and plans, and, besides, has there ever been a building that didn't look great as a model?

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• I'm old enough to remember in the 1930s and the 1940s when thrift, frugality, was considered an important virtue.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Important
  • Remember
  • Old

• You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup, a U.S. defeat in Vietnam, and a Watergate.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Baby
  • King
  • Defeat

• The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'

  

  Bartlett Sher
  • Think
  • Romantic
  • Last

• When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Laugh
  • Mickey Mouse

• I have flown with British Airways since I was a very little child, so it feels quite special to have gone from family holidays flying around Europe to become a gold card holder and be spoiled enough to travel more than not in first class.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Family
  • Travel
  • Gold

• I don't think you should limit what you read.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Think
  • You
  • Limit

• Apparently God takes reception of Holy Communion seriously. Apparently some things are more sacred than politics. Apparently it's all or nothing when it comes to being Catholic.

  

  Carl Olson
  • God
  • Politics
  • Catholic

• You're in a movie because you're appealing and because you represent the aspiration, the fantasy, the ideal.

  

  Rachel Ward
  • Movie
  • You
  • Fantasy

• If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to 'Firefly', make it on my own, and distribute it on the Internet.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Internet
  • California
  • Rights

• I would have tested the furniture if they'd asked me.

  

  Karen Morley
  • Me
  • Asked
  • Tested

• I've always been kind of a mutt creatively. I started off in journalism, and I've actually done more police and procedural shows than I've ever done science fiction shows. I was on 'Murder She Wrote,' I was on 'Walker, Texas Ranger,' I was on 'Jake and the Fat Man.'

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Done
  • She
  • Science

• I guess, for me, the therapy is walking on stage, playing all of our songs, and walking out. That's probably my therapy. That's a good time.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • Time
  • Good
  • Walking

• The support from back home has been more than I ever expected. They always knew me as the lacrosse player or the girl playing field hockey. Now they're seeing me on national TV, and they've been so supportive.

  

  Brynn Cartelli
  • Home
  • Girl
  • Support

• I'd rather be a poor singer/songwriter doing what I love than get rich from selling my soul.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Soul

• I draw a weekly comic strip called Life in Hell, which is syndicated in about 250 newspapers. That's what I did before The Simpsons, and what I plan to do for the rest of my life.

  

  Matt Groening
  • Life
  • Rest

• Janis Joplin is definitely one of my biggest influences. She taught me how to feel music, and I don't think there's anyone like her that could bring such pain and emotion to a song.

  

  LeAnn Rimes
  • Music
  • She
  • Song

• They offered me millions and millions and millions of dollars to write books about Cary. That was between us. That was private. I'll always love him.

  

  Dyan Cannon

• I always played hockey, I was always a hockey fan, but I was never bitten by the hockey bug... I never looked into playing it professionally.

  

  Chris Jericho
  • Hockey

• I immediately said yes for one reason and one reason only....Netflix rhymes with Wet Chicks.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Reason
  • Rhyme
  • Chicks

• The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses.

  

  William Manchester
  • Tree
  • Ocean
  • Beach

• All things are created twice. There is a mental (first) creation, and a physical (second) creation. The physical creation follows the mental, just as a building follows a blueprint. If you don't make a conscious effort to visualize who you are and what you want in life, then you empower other people and circumstances to shape you and your life by default.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Dream
  • Effort
  • Building

• The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Thinking
  • Kind
  • Football

• I don't usually go in for reviews of buildings that aren't yet built, since you can tell only so much from drawings and plans, and, besides, has there ever been a building that didn't look great as a model?

  

  Paul Goldberger
  • Looks
  • Drawing
  • Building