Michael Hansmeyer Quotes
There are unseen objects that await us, if we as architects begin to think about designing not the object, but a process to generate objects.
Quotes to Explore
-
Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
-
Sampling is kind of prehistoric, given the technology and the textures you can create.
-
If I wasn't going to be a surgeon, I wanted to be a farmer or grow oranges or something like that. I grow flowers now - orchids. That is something that I find very interesting.
-
Did anyone ever have a boring dream?
-
I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.
-
The voters of Colorado deserve honest, straight-talking elected officials.
-
Respect for women was a very important part of my upbringing.
-
So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.
-
I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.
-
I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
-
I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
-
Every relationship comes with a shelf life; that duration could be a minute or even a lifetime. If, for whatever reasons, a relationship cannot last a lifetime, contrary to what the two people imagined, then both the individuals have to be communicative and have to understand and accept the reality.
-
Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
-
Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
-
It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.
-
I'm not into the gym. I prefer dancing or tennis.
-
You work for whatever you get in life.
-
Some lucky people can be funny without half trying because they actually look funny, because acting funny is in their bones - fun as funny, not funny as crude slapstick.
-
I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.
-
His shoes on the front porch before he came inside. The Japanese do that. They don’t bring the dirt of the world into another person’s house.
-
Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.
-
As I continue to believe that innovation and entrepreneurship are the key drivers to our economic future, it's frustrating to hear such little cogent discussion around it.
-
Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its economic expansion.
-
There are unseen objects that await us, if we as architects begin to think about designing not the object, but a process to generate objects.
