Ada Louise Huxtable Quotes

The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried.

Ada Louise Huxtable

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• Building
• Tragedy

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• There are some parts of my life that are wonderful, and it's amazing to get to go to cool events and award shows and things like that, but I think the outside perception is that your life just changes overnight and you wear Dolce and Gabanna suits and drive a Mercedes. But life's just not like that.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Life
  • Amazing
  • Cool

• I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Science
  • Science fiction

• The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Door
  • Difference
  • Republican

• I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Up
  • Good
  • Real

• 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

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

  

  Rami Malek
  • People
  • Think
  • Me

• When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Thinking
  • Pretty
  • Beginning

• People, me included, have a truly emotional thing about this iPad.

  

  Barry Diller
  • People
  • Me
  • Emotional

• We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Live
  • Age
  • Knowledge

• Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Television
  • Try
  • Box

• Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Enthusiasm
  • Negativity

• I like sleeping a lot.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Like
  • Lot
  • Sleeping

• I learned the first night that IHOP's not the place to order fish.

  

  Larry David
  • Night
  • Place
  • Fish

• Performance art can involve the audience with taste, smell and sounds not available with electronic media and not practical with conventional theater. This is due to the usually small audience.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Art
  • Small
  • Media

• I want to do more documentaries and travel to places I haven't been. That is where I think I can be fulfilled.

  

  Tatjana Patitz
  • Want
  • Travel
  • I Can

• For organizations seriously committed to making teamwork a cultural reality, I'm convinced that 'the right people' are the ones who have three virtues in common - humility, hunger, and people smarts.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Reality
  • Humility

• If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world can recognize, in spite of, or in fact in, its being wholly other.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • World
  • God
  • Love

• I was filled with hate and anger. But during my trial, something decisive happened: Amnesty International adopted me as a prisoner of conscience, and it was an unbelievable feeling to know that there is someone fighting for you on the outside. Amnesty's 'soft' approach made me seriously consider alternatives to revenge.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Feeling
  • Hate
  • Fighting

• Total commitment is the common denominator among all successful men and women.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Men
  • Women
  • Commitment

• In our time all it takes for evil to flourish is for a few good men to be a little wrong and have a great deal of power, and for the vast majority of their fellow citizens to remain indifferent.

  

  William Sloane Coffin
  • Men
  • Evil
  • Citizens

• You really have to love the song you’re working on so this carries through if it takes a few weeks to get every last detail right. So the key is, write what you like and don’t worry about getting your hands dirty.

  

  Nasri
  • Song
  • Worry
  • Write

• Fundamentally, all art is about human beings. You're always showing larger moral questions through the smaller moral, philosophical, or political choices through one character in the book.

  

  Philipp Meyer
  • Art
  • Character
  • Book

• There are many more important things in life than fashion. But fashion, to me, is part of pop culture. And I'm an art collector. I'm obsessed with art and pop culture. And I say that there is fame, fashion, art, music and entertainment, including celebrity, that really moves the needle in society.

  

  Tommy Hilfiger
  • Important
  • Art
  • Culture

• The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried.

  

  Ada Louise Huxtable
  • Art
  • Architecture
  • Building