Cedric Price Quotes

#1. A greater awareness in architects and planners of their real value to society could, at the present, result in that rare occurrence, namely, the improvement of the quality of life as a result of architectural endeavour.

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#2. Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.

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#3. I believe that God felt sorry for actors so he created Hollywood to give them a place in the sun and a swimming pool. The price they had to pay was to surrender their talent.

Cedric Hardwicke

#4. It pretty much defeats the purpose of bedtime reading if you fall asleep before the kids do. And you tend to wake up with a matchbox stuck on the end of your nose and/or a potty on your head.

Mal Peet

#5. Technology is the answer, but what was the question?

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#6. Architects (should) involve themselves continuously in anticipatory design as recommended by Buckminster Fuller

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#7. Like medicine (architecture) must move from the curative to the preventive.

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#8. Cedric Price said: "Technology is the answer. But what is the question?

Dan Hill

#9. The Office's prime approach to architecture ... is one of continuous ANTICIPATORY DESIGN.

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#10. (Cedric Price produced the Potteries Thinkbelt) ... project which questioned most of the cherished establishment premises of university education and substituted in their place their complete inversion.

Roy Landau

#11. C.P. Office sees its particular product (buildings) as the readily recognisable parts of its continuous design process.

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#12. It is a good maxim to trust a person entirely or not at all.

Henry Fielding

#13. So that there is no misunderstanding from my perspective, I will suspend any player who tests positive for an illegal steroid. There will be no exceptions. The (players) union is aware of that and they accept it.

Bud Selig

#14. For your friends and family, you are always a champion, but for the media and sponsors, not until you show a spark. Making a champ is more important than celebrating one. I want to be there for youngsters and help them do their best.

Gagan Narang

#15. If I acted like I did onstage in normal life, everyone would probably hate me.

Alison Mosshart

#16. Likewise 'radical'. I'm only radical because the architectural profession has got lost. Architects are such a dull lot - and they're so convinced that they matter.

Cedric Price

#17. Just because you have been through a bad experience does not give you the ticket to keep going back to that situation over and over again and dramatizing it out of proportion.

Stephen Richards

#18. So tell me what brings you here," Laney says. Adam and I look at each other. He says nothing. Ass-hat. That's one of Jenny's favorite words, and it's becoming one of mine, too. I wait him out, staring steadily, wondering if he can feel the poison seeping out of my heart.

Kristan Higgins

#19. Architecture is too slow in its realisation to be a 'problem solver'.

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#20. I don't think I've ever done anything professionally.

Al Jourgensen

#21. Why did I need to see someone else's bad luck? To feel glad it was not mine? To scare myself into thinking it still might be?

Amy Tan

#22. Nothing good is free, and nothing free is good. You want the world to change, you have to force that change behind gun smoke and lead. Blood is the price, always and ever, if you want to buy freedom.

Cedric Nye

#23. They can crumble as easily as ice cream in this heat

Sammy Nelson

#24. My life has always been like a change jar. It's full, then it's empty, then it's full again, then it's empty again.

Svetlana Alexievich

#25. Being dead is one way to experience nothing, another is to attend some classes at my school.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#26. My bones hold a stillness, the far
Fields melt my heart.

Sylvia Plath

#27. I think I have said enough.

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#28. Architecture is slow and therefore requires anticipatory design.

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#29. Though "instincts" or "drives" can be formulated in physiological and biological terms they cannot be pinned down in that way, for they are also psychic entities which manifest themselves in a world of fantasy peculiarly their own. They

C. G. Jung

#30. Architecture should have little to do with problem solving - rather it should create desirable conditions and opportunities hitherto thought impossible.

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#31. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave.

James Burgh