Architecture Theory Quotes

#1. The growth of populations has in no way increased the amount [of art], it has merely increased
the adeptness with which substitutes can be produced and packaged.

Raymond Chandler

#2. I didn't know when I was growing up that this was a very special program, that this wasn't going on in other parts of the country. Now I realize that I was lucky.

Benny Green

#3. Asian colleges would do well to use a broad range of criteria in selecting students and move beyond the unproductive "examination hell. "

Henry Rosovsky

#4. I think it is widely agreed that Carl Steinitz, over the 50 years he taught at Harvard, has been one of the most important figures in influencing the theory and practice of landscape architecture and the application of computer technology to planning.

Jack Dangermond

#5. I worked out a rather deep-dish theory defining the theater as a form of architecture rather than a form of literature.

Preston Sturges

#6. Their consciousness was rudimentary.

Michel Faber

#7. Landscape design theory has been rotting away, peacefully, like a garden temple, since the close of the eighteenth century.

Tom Turner

#8. Architecture theory is very interesting.

David Byrne

#9. The car, by bisecting the human outline, diminishes it, producing a race of half-people in a motion not of their own making

Marya Mannes

#10. Nature is our spirit, breathing.

Jaeda DeWalt

#11. Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.

Willard Scott

#12. She was a sweet, pretty thing and he'd have walked the world over to get her a blade o' grass she wanted.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#13. I think everybody could agree that our immigration system is broken. We have not told the truth about it.

Jose Antonio Vargas

#14. Once I posed nude for a magazine. I've never been back to THAT newstand.

Emo Philips

#15. To me, Batman is definately Bruce Wayne's darker side. The challenge is playing it as two separate aspects of the same person. I have to create the illusion of a Dark Knight, who's mysterious and strong.

Kevin Conroy

#16. I would kiss you in the middle of the ocean during a lightning storm cuz I'd rather be left for dead than wondering what thunder sounds like.

Andrea Gibson

#17. In my opinion, all previous advances in the various lines of invention will appear totally insignificant when compared with those which the present century will witness. I almost wish that I might live my life over again to see the wonders which are at the threshold.

Charles Holland Duell

#18. Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

Arthur Erickson