Chipperfield Architects Quotes

#1. You have everything you need. A miraculous body, a phenomenal brain, and a vast powerful subconscious mind. Now it's just a matter of focusing them in the right direction

Mark Allen

#2. I had been very close to Anne Bancroft when we worked together in The Miracle Worker.

Patty Duke

#3. So when it comes to circadian rhythms, it's a clock that's basically programmed in our body. So if you think back to times when people lived on farms and we didn't have electricity.

Shelby Harris

#4. If you feel you have the right key, you try to make some phrase or sound that will fit.

Jan Garbarek

#5. I find that by putting things in writing I can understand them and see them a little more objectively ... For words are merely tools and if you use the right ones you can actually put even your life in order, if you don't lie to yourself and use the wrong words.

Hunter S. Thompson

#6. I'm friends with [David] Fincher. [James] Cameron gives me advice. I know a fair amount of directors who have been through it, and they all felt pretty confident that I would be fine when I got my shot. So their confidence made me feel confident.

Timothy Miller

#7. I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Warren Buffett

#8. There is a danger when every building has to look spectacular; to look like it is changing the world. I don't care how a building looks if it means something, not to architects, but to the people who use it.

David Chipperfield

#9. In this world of plenty, a tiny baby, who does not yet understand the mystery of the world, is allowed to cry and cry and finally fall asleep without the milk she needs to survive.

Muhammad Yunus

#10. Most architects work in studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and historical research were irrelevant.

David Chipperfield

#11. It's fun for someone to poke fun at himself.

Chris Kattan

#12. Here's Coleridge, in 1804, when he turned thirty-two: 'Yesterday was my Birth Day. So completely has a whole year passed, with scarcely the fruits of a month. - O Sorrow and Shame ... I have done nothing!

Anthony Doerr

#13. Careful. We don't want to learn from this.

Bill Watterson

#14. Your life is not a countdown to your death, but a stepping stone for the lives that will live after you. Squander today, and you will find yourself useless tomorrow.

A.J. Darkholme

#15. Often, architects work too hard trying to make their buildings look different. It's like we're actors let loose on a stage, all speaking our parts at the same time in our own private languages without an audience.

David Chipperfield

#16. I'm suspicious of the idea of architects acting like business executives, brand managers, or purveyors of luxury goods.

David Chipperfield