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An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking bar at the site.

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Frank Lloyd Wright
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Category: Architecture

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
  • 2. In this age which believes that there is a short cut to everything the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is in the long run the easiest.
  • 3. The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics such as sex eye color age and Social Security number.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Singing really is acting. In a lot of ways it's much more personal. I love music and being able to work on that is amazing.
  • 2. Reba McEntire came through town when I lived in Texas. She had this amazing theatrical show with like 13 different wardrobe changes. I was eight and I was like Wow I wanna do that!
  • 3. One of the amazing things about the Internet is that the content creators are the gatekeepers. We can think of an idea and execute it quickly and we didn't have to pitch the idea to a major network or convince a studio head to sign-off on the concept.

3 Anger

  • 1. You've just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn't help anybody. Ultimately you have to say forgiveness is important and honoring what you had together is important. But it's easy to say and harder to do.
  • 2. Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else you are the one who gets burned.
  • 3. Hatred is an affair of the heart contempt that of the head.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
  • 2. My last trip to New Orleans was for the fifth anniversary of Katrina and I had the awesome opportunity to bring my family down. We all worked on a house together and met some of the families.
  • 3. There is no more lovely friendly and charming relationship communion or company than a good marriage.

5 Architecture

  • 1. They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
  • 2. Look architecture has a lot of places to hide behind a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do this.' 'Oh the budget.' I don't believe that anymore.
  • 3. The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture and the language that we use about politics it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties.
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