Steven Holl Quotes

You can say I'm not the easiest architect in the world, because I'm always trying to push the limits.

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• 'Downton' is one of the best jobs in the world, and I'm looking forward to the next series for Maggie Smith's wicked sense of humour.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • World
  • Best
  • Looking Forward

• You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Great
  • Myself
  • Environment

• I couldn't pick just one defining breakthrough role. I like to think that they're all a part of me.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Think
  • Me
  • Like

• Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Failure
  • Ambition
  • Last

• And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • Country
  • Character
  • Study

• Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Same
  • Measure
  • Selling

• Nobody should teach the black man in America to turn the other cheek, unless someone is teaching the white man in America to turn the other cheek.

  

  Malcolm X
  • America
  • Man
  • Black

• Hi-Tek is on three or four songs on the new record.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • New
  • Three
  • Four

• I'm a big believer in pushing things too far and forcing people to pull you back.

  

  Warren Spector
  • People
  • You
  • Back

• You cannot imagine how great it is to step out on the stage with thousands of screaming fans loving you.

  

  Eddie Cibrian
  • Great
  • Stage
  • Step

• In February 1991, I was rushed to the hospital in Los Angeles to have my feet amputated. Three years earlier, I had broken the national 100 meters hurdles record while a student at UCLA and was a favourite for the event at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.

  Gail Devers
  • Broken
  • Feet
  • February

• I quit because I didn't feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the game.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Game
  • Chance
  • Win

• I'm very passionate, very emotional, very sensitive. I've always been like that.

  

  Banks
  • Like
  • Emotional
  • Passionate

• Whenever someone comes up to me saying, 'I saw you in 'Carlos' and then I saw the rest of your movies,' for me, it's an expression that we might be doing something well. So my life hasn't changed that much. I just try not to go to very crowded places if I'm not in the mood.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Life
  • Movies
  • Mood

• Ambition can creep as well as soar.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Ambition
  • Well
  • Soar

• O eternal truth and true love and beloved eternity! You are my God; to you I sigh by day and by night. And when I first knew you, you raised me up so that I could see that there was something to see and that I still lacked the ability to see it. And you beat back the weakness of my sight, blazing upon me with your rays, and I trembled in love and in dread.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Up
  • God
  • Truth

• After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; seeing that none of the objects of my fears contained in themselves anything either good or bad, except in so far as the mind is affected by them, I finally resolved to inquire whether there might be some real good having power to communicate itself, which would affect the mind singly, to the exclusion of all else: whether, in fact, there might be anything of which the discovery and attainment would enable me to enjoy continuous, supreme, and unending happiness.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Social

• I enjoy a glass of wine, and I love my football. I suppose it's because I'm a real working-class.

  

  Rod Stewart
  • Football
  • Enjoy
  • Wine

• I believe that the idea of the totality, the finality of the master-plan, is misguided. One should advocate a gradual transformation of public space, a metamorphic process, without relying on a hypothetical time in the future when everything will be perfect. The mistake of planners and architects is to believe that fifty years from now Alexanderplatz will be perfected. -p.197

  

  Daniel Libeskind
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Future

• It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense,/ That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • Human
  • Voice
  • Mad

• In studying other cultures, we learn more about ourselves and our relationship to all things in this world.

  

  Eustace Conway
  • Relationship
  • Cultures
  • Studying

• You can say I'm not the easiest architect in the world, because I'm always trying to push the limits.

  

  Steven Holl
  • Limits
  • Push
  • Architect