Hugh MacDiarmid Quotes

There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world but no ruined stones.

Hugh MacDiarmid

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• Buildings are always better than drawings and models.

  

  Rafael Moneo
  • Always
  • Better
  • Buildings

• When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit of certain configurations is obvious to anyone.

  

  Yoshio Taniguchi
  • Years
  • Last
  • Buildings

• There's a lot of bands that get to a certain level, and it just stops. They scrap it. Compare this to, say, The Rolling Stones or The Who, where they just continued on forever and are still playing, or they quit after 20 years.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Forever
  • Years
  • Stones

• There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Space
  • Design
  • Buildings

• I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • People
  • Good
  • Stones

• As I said before, stones to me is meant things that hurt people, things that cause pain and thats what this song is about.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • People
  • Song
  • Pain

• I am much more my own man than I was when I was with the Stones.

  

  Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones
  • Men
  • Stones
  • My Own

• I have no fear of death, so I don't think about it. I love the adrenalin kick that danger brings. Others get their kicks bungee jumping from tall buildings. I'm very, very competitive. I want to be the best at everything I do. It's not driving - it's everything - it might be playing my guitar, I try to be the best at it as I possibly can.

  

  Lewis Hamilton
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Driving

• The building art is man's spatial dialogue with his environment and demonstrates how he asserts himself therein and how he masters it.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Art
  • Environment
  • Dialogue

• Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Life
  • Poetry

• Modern building has become so universally conditioned by optimized technology that the possibility of creating significant urban form has become extremely limited.

  

  Kenneth Frampton
  • Technology
  • Buildings
  • Optimized

• The stone neither speaks nor gives anything. Therefore its service is fruitless and its worship is of no avail.

  

  Kabir
  • Giving
  • Service
  • Worship

• I must make a choice every time I speak a sentence in English. I try to choose the happier way of saying things, so that my own words will not weigh me down like stones.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Words

• There was a lot of stones what the builders refused. I think I was one of the stones what many builders did refuse.

  

  Burning Spear
  • Stones
  • Builder
  • Refused

• Look at their arts, their power of turning stone into lifelike figures, and above all, the way in which they can transfer their thoughts to white leaves, so that others, many many years hence, can read them and know all that was passing, and what men thought and did in the long bygone. Truly it is marvelous.

  

  G.A. Henty
  • Art
  • Figures
  • Stones

• The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Stones
  • Boots
  • Kicks

• A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war. I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • War
  • Social
  • Stones

• The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

  

  Confucius
  • Man
  • Mountain
  • Stones

• Many may look at me and see mostly what I have lost. I struggle to speak, my eyesight's not great, my right arm and leg are paralyzed, and I left a job I loved representing southern Arizona in Congress.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Great
  • May
  • Job

• Sometimes you want to go for a walk and you don't want to be watched. You just want to be anonymous and blend in. Especially when I travel, I feel that way, because I can't really go out and see a city the way other people can and I miss out on a lot.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • City
  • Travel

• Lacking older siblings, the oldest or only child identifies primarily with her parents, conforming to their ideals and demands, not the least reason being that she no one with whom to share those demands. Since firstborns try to live up to the expectations of adults- teachers' as well as parents'- rather than that of peers, they are likely to learn more and to bring home better report cards than younger siblings. Thus firstborns pave the way for younger siblings, setting the standards against which they are measured and measure themselves.

  

  Victoria Secunda
  • Up
  • Live
  • Home

• Keep your heels, head & standards high!

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Head
  • Keep
  • Heels

• There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world but no ruined stones.

  

  Hugh MacDiarmid
  • Ruined
  • Buildings
  • Stones