Denise Scott Brown Quotes

#1. To be honest, I thought of you as an amateur - a spoiled, entitled, runaway princeling bent on revenge who would get caught and then complicate my elegant scheme. I figured the less you knew, the better."
"I hate it when you sugarcoat things," Ash said.

Cinda Williams Chima

#2. Faced with unmeasurables, people steer their way by magic.

Denise Scott Brown

#3. Architecture can't force people to connect, it can only plan the crossing points, remove barriers, and make the meeting places useful and attractive.

Denise Scott Brown

#4. I am too much of a team member to be separated from my team.

Nita Ambani

#5. Keith Richards I remember. There was a horse backstage that week, and I was in my dressing area and I saw Keith Richards go up, hold the horse's face in his hands, and go, "You're a fine horse, aren't you?" I'll never forget that.

Tom Shales

#6. I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.

Bette Davis

#7. It's impossible to change the social without changing the personal - you have to put your money where your mouth is. And if you're not making those challenges at home, it's unlikely you'll make them in a larger setting.

Carrie Mae Weems

#8. Today, India consumes about 682 watts per capita, far lesser than developed nations. As India develops, it will definitely require a lot more energy.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#9. Who knows but I shall grow reasonable at last, descend from my ideal heaven to the real earth, marry, and - Oh Plato! - make a pudding?

Jane Welsh Carlyle

#10. As you head into adulthood, June, you may occasionally encounter oversize exotic beverages of an alcoholic nature. I felt it was my duty to acquaint you with these potentially hazardous drinks.

Carol Rifka Brunt

#11. Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a noble fashion.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#12. The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner.

Denise Scott Brown

#13. He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that you could recommend.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#14. At about five I knew I was going to be an architect because my mother had studied architecture. I thought it was women's work. I had a proprietary feeling about architecture. I could own it because my mother owned it.

Denise Scott Brown

#15. Never make negative comments or spread rumors about anyone. It depreciates their reputation and yours.

Brian Koslow

#16. Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much.

Alejandro Amenabar

#17. We have no sociology of architecture. Architects are unaccustomed to social analysis and mistrust it; sociologists have fatter fish to fry.

Denise Scott Brown