Renzo Piano Quotes

Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.

Renzo Piano

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• I never was a very good singer.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Good
  • Never
  • Singer

• Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Mediocrity
  • Heroism

• I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Live
  • Three
  • Household

• Napster has pointed the way for a new direction for music distribution, and we believe it will form the basis of important and exciting new business models for the future of the music industry.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Important

• I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Up
  • Bull
  • Rider

• I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • History
  • Learning
  • Best

• I love researching, I love interviewing.

  

  Quiara Alegria Hudes
  • I Love
  • Interviewing
  • Researching

• What's hardest for me to swallow is when there is a love story, say, with a really high-profile male star and there's no reason I can't play the part. They say, 'Oh, we love Halle, we just don't want to go black with this part.'

  

  Halle Berry
  • Reason
  • Star
  • Story

• Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Important
  • Education
  • Human

• We watch so much film, calling up pitch by pitch, count by count in order to spot tendencies. Technology is a big part of how I get ready for a game. What's funny is a lot of the NFL guys say they study the 'Madden' game; that's how they learn to read offenses and defenses.

  

  Carl Crawford
  • Up
  • Game
  • Funny

• My childhood dream was to study mechanical engineering. After reading 'The Mysterious Island' - which I read 25 times as a boy - I thought that was the best thing a person could do. The engineer in the book knows mechanics and physics, and he creates a whole way of life on the island out of nothing. I wanted to be like that.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Life
  • Book
  • Dream

• If I read something and respond to the role, that's what happens, and if those happen to be a few comedies in a row, or not, so be it.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • Something
  • Happen
  • Respond

• I adore burgers. I know they are bad for me, and only technically a sandwich, but a well made burger, juicy and hot off the grill, is wonderful!

  

  Faith Hunter
  • Bad
  • Know
  • Me

• I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Hate

• Among both the Northern and Eastern Hamites are to be found some of the most beautiful types of humanity.

  

  Ashley Montagu
  • Beautiful
  • Humanity

• Pero la vida es corta:viviendo, todo falta;muriendo, todo sobra.

  

  Lope de Vega

• I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Friends
  • American
  • Culture

• I just want to get back to the point where America has the best of everything.

  

  Jim Inhofe
  • America

• I begin by considering an effect.

  

  Maurice Ravel

• Al kept it coming and nobody asked how and his only rule was: share. Be warm, be innocent, open your everything, speak easy. Share

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Innocent
  • Rule
  • Share

• I still love the theology of the Mormon religion and think it is a wonderful way to grow up.

  

  Katherine Heigl
  • Up

• Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is a manifestation of the capacity of the human spirit to transcend its limitations.

  

  George Nelson
  • Design
  • Spirit
  • Architecture

• If you're doing this because you feel like you have a burning desire to do it, then you'll find a way to do it, no matter what. If you're doing this because you're thinking, 'Hey, this will be really cool. I'll be famous. I'll be on YouTube,' then you'll probably quit, because it's not easy to do for the long haul.

  

  Trisha Yearwood
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Desire

• Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.

  

  Renzo Piano
  • Fighting
  • Design
  • Gravity