Curtis W. Fentress Quotes

A bold architectural statement turns a public building into a landmark, but it is in the details where the architect becomes the real storyteller.

Curtis W. Fentress

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• God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.

  

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• When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as pain, terror, death. To people hearing or reading about it, crime is a metaphor, a symbol of the ancient battles fought every day: evil versus good, chaos versus order.

  

  S. J. Rozan
  • People
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• I keep dumbbells in my trailer, and I work out between takes.

  

  Zach Roerig
  • Work
  • Workout
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• It's on my bucket list, to get in a real fight.

  

  Naya Rivera
  • Real
  • Fight
  • List

• I lived in New York for seven years, although I was always in denial about it. Even though I had an apartment there, I always pretended I was just visiting. I do love New York. But I'm a Londoner at heart.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Heart
  • Always
  • Denial

• Everybody knows that I am not usually patient enough to actually sit down and watch one of my own films from the beginning to the end - I never do.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Beginning
  • End
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• When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.

  

  Ted Kotcheff
  • You
  • Film
  • Integrity

• Even back in elementary school, I was a leader, but a leader who didn't know how to channel my leadership skills in a constructive way. When I was younger, it probably came out as being more of a bossy little kid.

  

  Imran Amed
  • School
  • Leadership
  • Leader

• People, me included, have a truly emotional thing about this iPad.

  

  Barry Diller
  • People
  • Me
  • Emotional

• You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • You
  • Nothing
  • Opportunities

• I'm a big supporter of immigration.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Immigration
  • Big
  • Supporter

• Every time I make a mistake with a company, I write it out and try to figure out why it happened.

  

  Garrett Camp
  • Time
  • Why
  • Mistake

• Of course the lower classes have always felt downtrodden and aspired to a better life. But there is this theory that people respond to a class structure in England - there was a time when people knew who they were and knew whom they served and as long as management wasn't abusive, it was a good life for people.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• You save money so your kids can go to college - no matter what they are or who they are. They're your kids; you gotta support them.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Money
  • Kids
  • Support

• I spend the entire 90 minutes looking for space on the pitch. I'm always between the opposition's two holding midfielders and thinking, 'The defence is here, so I get the ball and I go there to where the space is.'

  

  Xavi
  • Thinking
  • Space
  • Looking

• Entrepreneurs are moving from a world of problem-solving to a world of problem-finding. The very best ones are able to uncover problems people didn't realize that they had.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • World
  • Best

• Death by hanging...I deserved it and I expected it, as I've always told you. I am glad that I have had the chance to defend myself and to think things over in the last few months.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Death

• Human beings have a physical need to tell themselves when at work: 'Let’s have done with it now,' and it’s having constantly to go on thinking in the face of this need when philosophizing that makes this work so strenuous.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Done

• Too close a view may interfere with one's grasp of an overall problem or concept.

  

  Anthony Stafford Beer
  • Problem
  • View
  • Grasp

• It wasn't idealism that made me, from the beginning, want a more secure and rational society. It was an intellectual judgment, to which I still hold. When I was young its name was socialism. We can be deflected by names. But the need was absolute, and is still absolute.

  

  Raymond Williams
  • Judgment
  • Communism
  • Rational

• Extemporaneous speaking should be practised [sic] and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech. And yet there is not a more fatal error to young lawyers than relying too much on speech-making. If any one, upon his rare powers of speaking, shall claim an exemption from the drudgery of the law, his case is a failure in advance.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Business
  • Public
  • Respects

• Setting ... is accident. Either a building is part of a place, or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Building
  • Stronger
  • Accidents

• Becoming a member of the NR is not just about working smarter. It's about building a system to replace yourself.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Working
  • Building
  • Member

• A bold architectural statement turns a public building into a landmark, but it is in the details where the architect becomes the real storyteller.

  

  Curtis W. Fentress
  • Building
  • Public
  • Statement