Nathan Sawaya Quotes

I see the world in rectangles. If I am talking to someone, I find myself analysing their face, working out how to recreate it in bricks.

Nathan Sawaya

• World
• Working
• Recreate
• Rectangles

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• You must consider, when reading this treatise, that mental perception, because connected with matter, is subject to conditions similar to those to which physical perception is subject.

  

  Maimonides
  • Reading
  • Matter
  • Perception

• When it comes down to it, Hillary Clinton will very much excite the Republican faithful to get out and work hard. I don't know if a similar case can be made if Obama is the candidate.

  

  Dan Bartlett
  • Work
  • Down
  • Work Hard

• The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • World
  • Knowledge
  • Desire

• 'Morning Joe' host Mika Brzezinski's personal life is a minefield. Her father is Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, and while one brother is an Obama appointee, the other advises Romney.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Life
  • Father
  • Morning

• It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.

  

  Mackenzie Rosman
  • Good
  • Important
  • Focus

• It is up to you to decide who to believe: the same people as usual or those who endanger their lives to save the country.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• Time stays, we go.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
  • Go
  • Stays

• Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Ancestors
  • Quotation

• Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Life
  • Faith
  • Moment

• People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Power
  • Together

• The non-utility of my kitchen could be transformed into its utility for art. To do a show there would mix art and life, naturally.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Life
  • Art
  • Kitchen

• I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Why
  • You
  • Own

• 'Duty' is a refreshingly honest memoir and a moving one. Mr. Gates scrupulously identifies his flaws and mistakes: He waited too long, for example, for the military bureaucracy to fix critical supply issues like the drones needed in Iraq and took three years to replace a dysfunctional command structure in Afghanistan.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Long
  • Moving
  • Military

• And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Long
  • Women
  • Think

• This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Great
  • Father
  • Joy

• Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Imagination
  • Aesthetic

• I like to say it's an attitude of not just thinking outside the box, but not even seeing the box.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Thinking
  • Attitude
  • Box

• I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the one hand, God was calling me. On the other, I was following the way of the world. Doing what God wanted made me happy; but I felt bound by the things of this world.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• I'm from the South, and there's a different understanding of how to chop. There's a syllable play. It's a delicate art. Your accent has a lot to do with it. If you're from a certain area, words don't roll of your tongue as slick.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Different
  • Art
  • Words

• I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.

  

  Jack Carroll
  • God
  • Forever
  • Bus

• I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if that's what you'd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other.

  

  Bill Griffith
  • School
  • Art

• If you're gay and you can't hold hands, or you're black and you can't catch a taxi, or you're a woman and you can't go into the park, you are aware there's a menace. That's costly on a psychic level. The world should be striving to make all its members secure.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • World
  • Black
  • Gay

• With all the horror in the world and all the crap that`s going on, for an hour and a half you go eat some popcorn and laugh with your friends. That`s what a movie is all about.

  

  Michael Rosenbaum
  • World
  • Horror
  • Popcorn

• I see the world in rectangles. If I am talking to someone, I find myself analysing their face, working out how to recreate it in bricks.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • World
  • Working
  • Recreate