Louis Kahn Quotes

I try to create homes, not houses.

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• I couldn't have children, so that's the bad side. But compared to everything else I have, it's not all that terribly bad. I count my winners rather than my losers.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Children
  • Bad
  • Winners

• I want to be back on Broadway one day. That's a dream of mine. There's nothing like live theater, and I think it's so important for me to be able to be on stage with an audience that responds.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • Important
  • Live
  • Dream

• If I can stay constantly busy, I'll be happy.

  

  Daniel Cudmore
  • Happy
  • Busy
  • Be Happy

• I'm omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though I'll read a novel in a day or two.

  

  O. R. Melling
  • Day
  • Always
  • Two

• I don't listen to music, actually. Obviously I go to clubs; I stand in elevators; a lot of my friends are musicians; I hear music all the time. But I don't have my own collection of music.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Time
  • Music
  • Friends

• If you so choose, every mistake can lead to greater understanding and effectiveness. If you so choose, every frustration can help you to be more patient and more persistent.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Help
  • Understanding
  • Mistake

• Hosting is a thankless job.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Job
  • Hosting
  • Thankless

• The championship always goes to the team that wins the most rounds and is the most prepared. I think everybody on our team works hard towards keeping that goal. Time will tell if we're prepared or not.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Time
  • Team
  • Goal

• Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Always
  • Violence
  • Well

• The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.

  

  Harold Evans
  • Lie
  • Camera
  • Cannot

• You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • You
  • Years
  • Expect

• I work out four to five days a week, alternating three workouts.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Work
  • Week
  • Three

• The hardest part about this business is accepting the back end with the same love that you accepted the front end.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Business
  • End
  • Part

• College kids want to be coached. They want to be taught. They might resist it a little bit early on, but the more you give, the more you get back.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Kids
  • Want
  • College

• If Europe does not return to the path of common sense, it will find itself laid low in a battle for its fate.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Path
  • Fate
  • Battle

• She did not send for him until she was afraid; she was not afraid until he undid her work; he did not undo her work until he was past loving her.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Work
  • She
  • Past

• I push this one button and the shower goes on and I think, where the fuck am I?

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath

• Although I'm deaf in only my left ear, when there is noise all around, I'm unable to distinguish sounds and can't hear anything.

  

  David Hewson

• It was the desire to do the complete thing. I only took taking acting lessons because my whole thing, really, was to direct. But my first jobs were acting jobs.

  

  James Coburn
  • Desire

• A dress is so great because you can grab a dress, then you either wear it with tights or no tights, depending on what the weather is outside. You can throw a little jacket over it; you can take the jacket off. It's very easy.

  

  Busy Philipps
  • Great

• From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Art
  • Self
  • Consequence

• It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile.

  

  Peter Bichsel
  • People

• That's the great thing about today, having smartphones to stay in touch and share experiences. Knowing that whilst there may be thousands of miles between you, it's almost like they're there. That's the coolest thing, and that's how I stay in touch with the people that are important to me.

  

  Lewis Hamilton
  • People
  • Great
  • Important

• I try to create homes, not houses.

  

  Louis Kahn