Le Corbusier Quotes

Vous savez, c'est la vie qui a raison, l'architecte qui a tort.

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• I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog that will bite you in the back.'

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Children
  • Fear
  • Running

• The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • Experience
  • American

• I sometimes wonder how we're short of cod. There's gonna be a load deep down that are hiding. But it's a good reason to put the price up, and it means a load of people will have haddock. They should tell people they're running out of all sorts. Make 'em panic a bit.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Challenging and highlighting abusive power dynamics in our culture is my goal; replicating them is not.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Power
  • Culture
  • Goal

• That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Think
  • Guy
  • Man

• I played piano and was always in the choir. I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Pretty
  • Play
  • Always

• What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Mind
  • True
  • Lose

• One year you go in for auditions, and everybody thinks you're the queen of comedy, and the next year, you're so 'yesterday,' and it's not because you've done anything, or your ability has changed; you haven't been in work because you've been putting on weight and then trying to lose it.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Done

• In the sudden absence of husbands, fathers, brothers and beaus, white Southern women discovered a newfound freedom - one that simultaneously granted them more power in relationships and increased their likelihood of heartbreak.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Women
  • Power
  • Freedom

• I wish not merely to be called Christian, but also to be Christian.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Wish
  • Christian
  • I Wish

• Of the judicial department of the Government, the Supreme Court is the head and representative, and to it must come for final decision all the great legal questions which may arise under the Constitution, the laws, or the treaties of the United States.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • Great
  • May
  • Government

• Doing jersey advertising for the World Cup is not in the same universe as putting advertising on NHL sweaters.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • World
  • Universe
  • Advertising

• We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Law
  • Rule
  • Rule Of Law

• It is forbidden to be merciful to them. You must send missiles to them and annihilate them. They are evil and damnable. … The Lord shall return the Arabs' deeds on their own heads, waste their seed and exterminate them, devastate them and vanish them from this world.

  

  Ovadia Yosef
  • World
  • Evil

• 'What, now?' 'Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore, immediacy.'

  

  Iain Banks
  • Good

• Men goeth to that place from which appreciation cometh.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Appreciation

• My father and I rarely saw eye to eye when I was growing up. We saw the world differently. It was only when we were both adults that we were able to share spectacles. However, football, and particularly the World Cup, was when we, enemy combatants, could traverse trenches and be together.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Up
  • World
  • Together

• But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.

  

  Emma Thompson
  • May
  • Death
  • Hurt

• Once you've experienced the warmth of an audience, the achievement of getting your first laugh, and entertaining them, singing or playing piano, it just keeps it all going.

  

  Bruce Forsyth
  • Singing
  • Achievement

• Television, for me, is great because I love to act, every day. I love to work that muscle. I love to learn, and I love to be able to just do what I love. It's when I'm at my best. So, I love TV for that reason because it's every day.

  

  Jennifer Love Hewitt
  • Work
  • Great

• To me, music is music, and it's not limited by the medium; it just encompasses everything.

  

  Marco Beltrami
  • Music

• Vous savez, c'est la vie qui a raison, l'architecte qui a tort.

  

  Le Corbusier