Ayn Rand Architecture Quotes

#1. To use an electronics analogy, closing a book on a bookmark is like pressing the Stop button, whereas when you leave the book facedown, you've only pressed Pause.

Anne Fadiman

#2. You could have a hit in California that no one had heard of in Oklahoma.

Wanda Jackson

#3. The structures were austere and simple, until one looked at them and realized what work, what complexity of method, what tension of thought had achieved the simplicity.

Ayn Rand

#4. I love doing it. Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.

Ayn Rand

#5. I don't think 'my way or the highway' works, that mentality. And that's what the Tea Party has done: drawn a line in the sand. I'm sorry - that doesn't work in business, that doesn't work in your family, it certainly doesn't work in government and our Congress.

Patrick Murphy

#6. A house can have integrity, just like a person,' said Roark, 'and just as seldom.

Ayn Rand

#7. Isn't it queer that the things we writhe over at night are seldom wicked things? Just humiliating ones.

L.M. Montgomery

#8. I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

Ayn Rand

#9. You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you're supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

Bob Marley

#10. I basically put myself into directors' hands and let them tell me what to do, and the more they told me what to do, the more I liked it.

Julie Christie

#11. Atheist, without God, I look to humankind for sympathy, for love, for hope, for effort, for aid.

Charles Bradlaugh

#12. Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#13. In architecture, mediocrity is more glaringly obvious than in other lines - because there's a huge, physical object such as a building to demonstrate it.

Ayn Rand

#14. Where is the absolution of religion now? Morality is not negotiable, Hensley. Unleashing a war machine in order to end a war? An absurd Olympics of semantic excuses. Ludicrous.

Hazel Woods