Rem Koolhaas (Remment Lucas Koolhaas) Quotes

The City is an addictive machine from which there is no escape

Rem Koolhaas

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• Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • People
  • Work
  • Myself

• My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can get something done. But then they say, and I wait for it, 'But can you watch with us?' My moment of freedom vanishes. So not only do I not think TV's that great and I hate sitting in front of it, but I have to with them.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Great
  • Done
  • Kids

• I don't look at myself as suffering.

  

  A. J. Langer
  • Myself
  • Suffering
  • Look

• One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • World
  • Better
  • Laugh

• Even within the last three or four years, I have a greater ability to communicate, I think. I have more courage to show the stuff... And it does take courage.

  

  Barbara Cook
  • Think
  • Years
  • Courage

• I'm quite confident with the way that I look but you find something else to focus on don't you if, I mean I, I have body issues that's my thing so you find something to focus on when you're a perfectionist, I think.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Think
  • Focus
  • Body

• The good books stick around for a reason. There is a reason that we come back to them and they are so rewarding.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Good
  • Reason
  • Back

• When I started out modeling, there weren't casting directors and there weren't stylists, so you just dealt directly with the designer. We were all much closer back then.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • You
  • Back
  • Modeling

• A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.

  

  Abraham Polonsky
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Remember

• I write very slowly.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Write
  • Very
  • Slowly

• We need to tell young people that America was built by men and women of all colors and that the future of this country is dependent on the participation of all of our citizens.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• The words of the world want to make sentences.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • World
  • Want
  • Words

• You have to trust your body to take care of you.

  

  A. J. Langer
  • Trust
  • Care
  • Body

• There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Life
  • Myself
  • Natural

• A punishment that penalizes without forestalling is indeed called revenge.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Revenge

• How would you like to have a thousand brilliantly colored cliff swallows keeping house in the eaves of your barn, and gobbling up insects over your farm at the rate of 100,000 per day? There are many Wisconsin farmsteads where such a swallow-show is a distinct possibility.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • Up
  • House

• You have to look at what 'Rumours' was, what drove the subject matter. You had two couples who were broken up or breaking up. And probably, you could say, success we had achieved was the catalyst for those breakups.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Up
  • Success
  • Broken

• Parishes must be the safest places for a child to be.

  

  Blase J. Cupich

• I'm a pretty tenacious person; I get that from my mom. So sometimes, I use dark humor. I can't take myself too seriously.

  

  Art Alexakis
  • Pretty
  • Mom
  • Dark

• I love a long bath. I love anything creative. I love decorating. I even love just flipping through magazines and vegging out for a while. But I'm also one of those people who loves to work, so I'll sing, dance, work on my next performance, or write whomever it may be about a new idea.

  

  Jennifer Lopez
  • People
  • Work
  • Long

• So too, in forming a constitution, or in enacting rules of procedure, or making canons, the people do not merely passively assent, but actively cooperate. They have, in all these matters, the same authority as the clergy.

  

  Charles Hodge
  • People

• The City is an addictive machine from which there is no escape

  

  Rem Koolhaas
  • City
  • Escape
  • Machine