Cedric Price Quotes

#1. (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

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

Dan Hill

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

James Burgh

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

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#5. 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

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

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#7. I think I have said enough.

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

Sylvia Plath

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

Ashleigh Brilliant

#10. 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

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

Sammy Nelson

#12. 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

#13. 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

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

Al Jourgensen

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

Cedric Price

#16. 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

#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. 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.

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

Alison Mosshart

#20. 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

#21. 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

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

Henry Fielding

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

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

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

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

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

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#28. 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

#29. 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

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

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#31. 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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