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

• I used to go on runs, it's kind of hard for me now unfortunately in Paris because it's a little bit hectic. My knees aren't that great, so recently I haven't been on the treadmill that much but that's why I like to box on a soft floor. It's good for me.

  

  Gigi Hadid
  • Running
  • Kind
  • Boxes

• Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

  

  William Golding
  • World
  • Ideas
  • Violence

• I do think it's important not to be absolutely sure, so sure that you can't reinvent yourself in some way, or at least rediscover the truth of why you think what you think, and not just take it as an assumption.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Assumption

• One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
  • Work
  • Own
  • Work Hard

• For 10 years of my life, 3 times a day, I thanked the Lord for what I was about to receive and thanked him again for what I had just received, and then we lost touch and I suddenly thought, where is he now

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Life
  • Lost
  • Years

• 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