Ben Aaronovitch Quotes

As property prices started rising, developers snatched up bomb sites and derelict buildings and erected the shapeless concrete lumps that have made the ’70s the shining beacon of architectural splendor that it is.

Ben Aaronovitch

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• Buildings are always better than drawings and models.

  

  Rafael Moneo
  • Always
  • Better
  • Buildings

• Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.

  

  Gary L. Francione
  • Animals
  • Property
  • Torture

• 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

• Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Rights
  • Personal
  • Property

• The Qur'an is God's property, not mine.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • God
  • Property
  • Mine

• I own buildings. I'm a builder; I know how to build. Nobody can build like I can build. Nobody. And the builders in New York will tell you that. I build the best product. And my name helps a lot.

  

  Donald Trump
  • New York
  • Build
  • Buildings

• People are not like a business. You can’t buy and sell them like so much property. You can’t lock them up in a vault and expect them to appreciate it.

  

  Harold Robbins
  • People
  • Up
  • Business

• Hogs are extremely sensitive to hunting pressure, and they can move quite a distance in a short time. If hogs receive a lot of hunting pressure, they'll pick up and move, often a mile or two away. So when you have hogs on your property, all your neighbors soon will have hogs on their lands too, whether they want them or not.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Up
  • Time
  • Distance

• 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

• One of the most important things I'm glad we did and am proud of is that we don't have any real grass on our property. It might not be realistic to ask people to pull out their grass, but we'll never have to think about it. We used Smart Grass, and I think it looks beautiful.

  

  Lisa Ling
  • People
  • Important
  • Real

• 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

• I discovered by working with actual glass models that the important thing is the play of reflections and not the effect of light and shadow, as in ordinary buildings.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Important
  • Light
  • Shadow

• I appropriate what is already mine, for once a thing is published it becomes public property.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Thing
  • Public
  • Property

• This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la mienne); it is a property which I claim from my contemporaries and from posterity.

  

  Antoine Lavoisier
  • Property
  • Oxygen
  • Chemists

• Deflation is defined as a general decline in prices, with emphasis on the word 'general.'

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Prices
  • Emphasis
  • Deflation

• A federal court has ruled that the U.S. Postal Service must reduce its stamp prices. The change in stamp prices is expected to affect as many as seven Americans.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Service
  • Court
  • Prices

• 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

• We know what gets cuts first. It's going to be the maintenance of the buildings. It's going to be professional development for teachers, and after that, it's going to go right on down the line to school staffing.

  

  Ann Miller
  • Professional
  • Development
  • Teachers

• In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter?

  

  Humphry Davy
  • Energy
  • Knowledge
  • Property

• Wallflowers may not be the prettiest of blooms, but at least they don’t get trampled.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Do Not
  • Blooms
  • Trampled

• I am more afraid that this people have so much confidence in their leaders that they will not inquire for themselves of God whether they are led by Him. I am fearful they settle down in a state of blind self-security... Let every man and woman know, by the whispering of the Spirit of God to themselves, whether their leaders are walking in the path the Lord dictates, or not.

  

  Brigham Young
  • People
  • God
  • Leaders

• The true end of Art is not to imitate a fixed material condition, but to represent a living motion.

  

  George Inness
  • Art
  • Condition
  • Motion

• Caffeine is my shepherd; I shall not doze. It maketh me to wake in green pastures: It leadeth me beyond the sleeping masses. It restoreth my buzz.

  

  Robert Phillips
  • Buzz
  • Caffeine
  • Shepherds

• As property prices started rising, developers snatched up bomb sites and derelict buildings and erected the shapeless concrete lumps that have made the ’70s the shining beacon of architectural splendor that it is.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Property
  • Buildings
  • Prices