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The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have because when you're talking about building a house you're talking about dreams.

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Robert A. M. Stern
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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. The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.
  • 2. I began to understand my sensations to know what I wanted at around the age of forty – but only vaguely.
  • 3. I can't look in the mirror and look at fake things. I just can't. I'd rather age.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I walked to Seward School first through fourth grade. It's just amazing to me now that we'd walk down 10th Avenue on Capitol Hill.
  • 2. I have a ridiculous fear of sharks but I'd jump in the water in a second for an amazing role.
  • 3. You know Johnny Depp has always been a massive inspiration for me and he's somebody who has produced an incredible amount of work and every single piece that he does is amazing.

3 Anger

  • 1. Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
  • 2. Fair peace becomes men ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
  • 3. Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. See the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it the bitter honesty is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody – 'You must live life this way' – and these guys were bored.
  • 2. The day before the anniversary of D-Day we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.
  • 3. I think you have to be willing to take a bullet for somebody if you're going to stand up there take your vows and be married to them for the rest of your life.

5 Architecture

  • 1. It is impossible as impossible as to raise the dead to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman can never be recalled.
  • 2. My buildings will be my legacy… they will speak for me long after I'm gone.
  • 3. We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us.
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