He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

My poetry is exacting a confession from me: I will not keep the truth from my song and the heartstringed instrument.

Frank Chipasula

Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.

Rem Koolhaas

I would say the most help I got was from my dad. My dad is a civil engineer in Switzerland he's 90 years old now, so he's no longer active as a civil engineer, but still a very active person.

Claude Nicollier

Leadership means that a group, large or small, is willing to entrust authority to a person who has shown judgement, wisdom, personal appeal, and proven competence.

Walt Disney

Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers.

Herbert Kaufman

Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Jonathan Raban

So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

It is man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age.

Samuel Johnson

Movies are very subjective.

Jeff Bridges

You REAP what You SOW: Life is like a boomerang. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.

Grant M. Bright

I grew up in a Navy family.

Elizabeth Edwards

Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow

George Eliot