Witold Rybczynski Quotes

While cities are distinguished by their architecture and physical appearance, Bell and de-Shalit make a compelling case that many major world cities--and their inhabitants--also express their own distinctive ethos or values. The Spirit of Cities takes the reader on a wide-ranging and lively personal journey.

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• I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • Life
  • Moving
  • Moving On

• Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Time
  • Age
  • Cheer

• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
  • Go

• If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.

  

  Olin Miller
  • Think
  • You
  • Boy

• I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Always
  • More
  • Push

• When you get into a car, and there's trash, or it's dirty, or one of the hubcaps is off, you're like, 'Come on, dude.' Every woman likes the confidence and self-respect that says, 'I get oil changes. I look after my vehicle.' That's what I recommend: Act like you don't care, but take care of your body.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Respect
  • Woman
  • Car

• But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Life
  • God
  • Death

• I'm a big fan of Justin Timberlake and Bruno Mars – that's my next level. You've got to dream. People have always tried to shoot me down for wanting to be a big worldwide star. But why not? You have to broaden your horizons and put yourself out there.

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Star
  • Fan

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

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Important
  • Education
  • Human

• There are no large-scale original musicals being made right now. They're all Broadway adaptations and jukebox musicals or catalog musicals, and they just don't interest me as much.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Right
  • Interest
  • Broadway

• I hate being too pretty.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Pretty
  • Hate
  • Being

• I have to be able to be honest and be credible, and I think I can say, 'This guy did not have his best game today' rather than, 'He is awful and I cannot believe he did that.'

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Believe
  • Today
  • Guy

• I use egg whites and an olive oil-based hair mask that deep-conditions the hair and adds incredible shine.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Hair
  • Deep
  • Shine

• I feel that good fantasy will always be in demand. I think children especially need literature that helps them escape from the real world, which is very scary to them right now.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • World
  • Good
  • Children

• My soldier weapon is the weapon of truth.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Truth
  • Soldier
  • Weapon

• To be honest, I would never have imagined myself acting on a sitcom that I didn't write.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Myself
  • Acting
  • Write

• Medicine also disregards national boundaries.

  

  Irving Langmuir
  • Medicine
  • Boundaries
  • Also

• I think, growing up in a small town - I grew up in a lot of different places. I grew up in a city environment, a more suburban environment, a more rural environment. That's the beauty of New Jersey is you get a lot of different types of living.

  

  Halsey
  • Up
  • Different
  • Small

• The great thing about performance capture is you can go off, and then, without changing costume, you can become another character.

  

  Andy Serkis
  • Great
  • Character

• The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.

  

  Carlo Goldoni
  • World
  • Book
  • Beautiful

• The opportunity to build new and surprising partnerships to help Microsoft succeed in a mobile-first, cloud-first world is truly exciting, and I look forward to leading these efforts.

  

  Peggy Johnson
  • World
  • Help
  • Opportunity

• I am occasionally enraptured by Western landscape. But I don't identify that state of mind as having to do with my own origins, having grown up in the West, although I certainly crisscrossed Nevada countless times growing up, and then as a young adult, in cars and on motorcycles.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Mind
  • Growing
  • Landscape

• While cities are distinguished by their architecture and physical appearance, Bell and de-Shalit make a compelling case that many major world cities--and their inhabitants--also express their own distinctive ethos or values. The Spirit of Cities takes the reader on a wide-ranging and lively personal journey.

  

  Witold Rybczynski
  • World
  • Spirit
  • Journey