David Adjaye Quotes

#1. It was feeling honored by the privilege of getting to be present for another person's most dismal moments, and knowing that you could be dismal around him in return. More troubling to him than his

Hanya Yanagihara

#2. What is all that men have done and thought over thousands of years, compared with one moment of love. But in all Nature, too, it is what is nearest to perfection, what is most divinely beautiful! There all stairs lead from the threshold of life. From there we come, to there we go.

Friedrich Holderlin

#3. Twitter became a major place to find out what was breaking on the Internet. Facebook became a place to share links. Social media really grew up.

Kevin Rose

#4. - "I once knew a girl who loved tigers so much she almost became one herself." Because I am little, and my love of tigers comes directly from him, I believe he is talking about me, offering me a fairy tale in which I can imagine myself - and will, for years and years.

Tea Obreht

#5. I'm totally into architecture for all strata of society. High design should not just be for rich people.

David Adjaye

#6. We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can't shake off.

Mark Twain

#7. The houses [my first project in London] were reactions to the condition of the city and my frustrations with the norms that were being played out. In a way they were slightly subconscious but reactions to that condition and a way to posit new possibilities within certain pervasive norms.

David Adjaye

#8. Buildings are deeply emotive structures which form our psyche. People think they're just things they maneuver through, but the makeup of a person is influenced by the nature of spaces.

David Adjaye

#9. Dorkdom isn't something you can choose. It's something you are. But instead of dividing the world up into dorkside and darkside, I've realised that we all have a little bit of dork inside us.

Sarra Manning

#10. Buildings for me represent opportunities of agency, transformation, and storytelling. They are not just artifacts. There is this big tradition of buildings-as-artifacts - constructed artifacts - but for me they are these incredible sites of negotiation.

David Adjaye

#11. As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don't get bogged down in it.

Joe Abercrombie

#12. I'm lyric conscious. I like to tell stories, give advice. Instead of writing a 'Dear Abby' column, I do it on records.

Betty Wright

#13. For me, architecture is a social act,

David Adjaye

#14. I put my heroes through hell...

Anna Erishkigal

#15. If you just live in New York and you only know New York, you know a certain kind of condition of formality and informality. By being able to go to another context and to be able to use that as a counter foil to the context you know, you are about to see a wider range.

David Adjaye

#16. Talking one way or another doesn't make you better

A.C. Gaughen

#17. I love the excess of Christmas. The shopping season that begins in September, the bad pop star recordings of Christmas carols, the decorations that don't know when to come down.

Mo Rocca

#18. The first 10 years, I was just building just to understand what I was doing and I didn't trust my intuition to just produce. Then, in the last five years, I have really been reflecting on what I am producing and what it is doing.

David Adjaye

#19. Context is so important, not to mimic but to become part of the place. I wanted a building that acknowledges its surroundings.

David Adjaye

#20. The thing about architecture is that it's an art [you] simply learn more by doing more. It's one of those things that is really not an art about thinking, but doing. So in a way, what it has done is greatly intensify the way that I build.

David Adjaye

#21. A wife is to submit graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits to the headship of Christ.

Mike Huckabee

#22. Good art shows us how difficult it is to be objective by showing us how differently the world looks to an objective vision.

Iris Murdoch

#23. This idea was first coined by Charles Handy in his book The Age of Unreason

Jeff Goins

#24. Africa is an extraordinary opportunity at the moment

David Adjaye

#25. My mom once told me that a good relationship isn't where the other person makes you feel better, but where they make *you* better.

Brian K. Vaughan