Top 14 Eero Quotes
#1. To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really an architect.
Eero Saarinen
#2. I have come to the conviction that once one embarks on a concept for a building, this concept has to be exaggerated and overstated and repeated in every part of its interior so that wherever you are, inside or outside, the building sings with the same message.
Eero Saarinen
#3. It was a pretty good year for predators.
Don Henley
#5. What you newspaper and magazine writers, who work in rabbit time, don't understand is that the practice of architecture has to be measured in elephant time.
Eero Saarinen
#6. The major concern ... was to create a monument which would have lasting significance and would be a landmark of our time ... Neither an obelisk nor a rectangular box nor a dome seemed right on this site or for this purpose. But here, at the edge of the Mississippi River, a great arch did seem right.
Eero Saarinen
#7. The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man's life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence,
Eero Saarinen
#8. Life just makes so much more sense with black framed glasses on ...
Nicole Richie
#9. I wanted to clear up the slum of legs ... I wanted to make the chair all one thing again.
Eero Saarinen
#10. Confusion comes from trying to amalgamate several conflicting ideas.
Eero Saarinen
#11. The very thing that men think they have got the most of, they have got the least of; and that is judgment.
Josh Billings
#13. I once found a kernel of corn in the middle of a deep wood by Walden, tucked in behind a lichen on a pine, about as high as my head, either by a crow or a squirrel. It was a mile at least from any corn-field.
Henry David Thoreau
#14. I'm going to help the committee regardless of any position I have. I will volunteer to be a summer intern.
Trey Gowdy
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