Joshua Prince-Ramus Quotes

It's not so much about form versus functionality. Rather, it's about doing both and doing them a lot and doing them well-and that's how we should be talking about architecture.

Joshua Prince-Ramus

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• If you can live in Vegas, or visit Vegas, and leave in one piece, still loving it and somehow laughing about it, you should spend at least part of your last night in town doing something that will serve you well no matter where you go next: thank your lucky stars.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Live
  • Night
  • Stars

• When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Time
  • Great
  • Power

• To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Work
  • Live
  • Die

• Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Goal
  • Gift
  • Adulthood

• People used to think of me as a comedy actor.

  

  Rami Malek
  • People
  • Think
  • Me

• People often call 'If I Stay' my baby novel, and I have to correct them. It's not my first book. It's just the first one anybody paid attention to.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • People
  • Book
  • Attention

• I'm definitely caught up in the Kool-Aid of true-crime stories.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Up
  • True
  • Stories

• The fall of 1912 my fielding was above the average, but my hitting was not so good. However, I was the talk of the town because of my peculiar way of catching a fly ball. They later named it the Vest-Pocket Catch.

  

  Rabbit Maranville
  • Good
  • Fall
  • Fly

• You always end up saying and doing such horrible things to your family, 'cause you know they're never going anywhere, and at some point, they're going to forgive you.

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Up
  • Family
  • End

• I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Reader
  • Throw
  • Voracious

• Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer. So my being able to reach the masses was something that meant a great deal to me - especially for women who could never wear Vera Wang.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Great
  • Women
  • Design

• Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Power
  • Past

• Much early alchemy seems to have been adventure. You heated and mixed and burnt and pounded and to see what would happen. An adventure might suggest an hypothesis that can subsequently be tested, but adventure is prior to theory.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Adventure

• Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Love
  • Friendship
  • For Her

• If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.

  

  Bill Nighy
  • World

• It's key to know which essential foods will keep you going and help your body recover after hard work.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Work
  • Help

• I came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a very good research department.

  

  Kurt Loder
  • Good
  • High
  • Rock

• I've always been like that; I give 100 percent. I can't do it any other way.

  

  Emma Watson

• Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses.

  

  Alessandro Nivola
  • School
  • High
  • College

• Don’t get me wrong, I love the idea of killing unwanted babies, it’s just that the idea of letting women make a decision doesn’t sit well with me.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Women
  • Decision

• A right delayed is a right denied.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

• We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge

  

  George Will
  • Science
  • Knowledge
  • Universe

• My mother took me to Venice one time and showed me all the houses where famous composers used to live. It gave me a fascination for music and the city, but also for architecture. It was a valuable lesson.

  

  Ben van Berkel
  • Time
  • Music
  • Live

• It's not so much about form versus functionality. Rather, it's about doing both and doing them a lot and doing them well-and that's how we should be talking about architecture.

  

  Joshua Prince-Ramus
  • Architecture
  • Form
  • Functionality