Steven Holl Quotes

I think architecture, to be really intense and fulfilling, doesn't have to be large.

Steven Holl

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• I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • People
  • Inspired
  • Appreciate

• The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • American
  • Spirit
  • Intelligence

• I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.

  

  Vernon Jordan
  • Leadership
  • Rockefeller Plaza

• A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • People
  • Water
  • Fat

• I spent years commuting into London when I was working as a temp, and I hated the monotony of it.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Years
  • Working
  • London

• As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Rest
  • California
  • Nation

• Each emission of an alpha or beta ray accompanies the transmutation of an atom; the energy communicated to these rays comes from inside the atom.

  

  Irene Joliot-Curie
  • Energy
  • Inside
  • Alpha

• A man should never neglect his family for business.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Family
  • Business
  • Man

• I'm the only one responsible for the choices I make and the opportunities I get. When you read the script, you don't know how it's going to shape up. You just know what you've been narrated.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Up
  • Know
  • Choices

• I can let go of a lot of stuff, but I focus on things I think I should, like dancing, because it takes 100 percent concentration on every step.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Think
  • Focus
  • Step

• When I left my home to become an actress, my father didn't give me a single penny. I struggled a lot, and they had no idea what I went through. My grandfather even asked me to drop my surname when he learnt I was joining films.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Home
  • Father
  • Single

• I liked George Weiss when he was with the Yankees. He loved the Old Timers' Day. He loved it. And he invited all these people to come, all these players to come.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • People
  • Day
  • Loved

• The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him.

  

  Garrett Fort
  • People
  • Believe
  • Strength

• New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Work
  • Myself
  • New York

• If you are not making any mistakes, you are being excessively risk-averse. Investing involves risk, and that means you will occasionally be wrong. And although it is okay to be wrong, it is not okay to stay wrong.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • You
  • Risk
  • Mistakes

• I have learned so much from Nelson Mandela, and he has been my leader. He is a perpetual inspiration for me and millions of others around the world.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • World
  • Inspiration
  • Leader

• Like 'real', 'free' is only used to rule out the suggestion of some or all of its recognized antitheses. As 'truth' is not a name of a characteristic of assertions, so 'freedom' is not a name for a characteristic of actions, but the name of a dimension in which actions are assessed.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Free

• I've been practicing. I bowled a 129, It was like special olympics or something.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Olympics
  • Practicing
  • Bowl

• My hope is in you, Lord. Be my refuge, for You are my strength.... Into Your hands, Lord, I commend my spirit. You have redeemed me, Lord, God of Truth.

  

  Bernadette Soubirous
  • Hope
  • Spirit
  • Refuge

• I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Simple
  • Architecture
  • Calm

• You cannot have good architecture merely by asking people's advice on occasion. All good architecture is the expression of national life and character; and it is produced by a prevalent and eager national taste, or desire for beauty.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Life
  • Character
  • Desire

• If I just do everything the opposite of what my dad did, I think that will make things pretty easy. I can joke about it now because I'm past that stage where it used to hurt. By having a kid, it's gone. I could take all that negative energy that I had and put it in a positive way.

  

  Derrick Rose
  • Pretty
  • Past
  • Energy

• I think architecture, to be really intense and fulfilling, doesn't have to be large.

  

  Steven Holl
  • Architecture
  • Intense
  • Large