Eliel Quotes

#1. All I learned from Eliel Saarinen was how to make out an expense account

Frank Lloyd Wright

#2. Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.

Eliel Saarinen

#3. Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.

Wallace Stevens

#4. Can you honestly tell me that your great desire is to be holy? Can you honestly tell me your great desire is to not be like the world, but to be like Jesus Christ? Because if you cannot, you should be afraid. Those who love the world do not have the love of the Father (1 John 2:15).

Paul Washer

#5. Art was born as a desire, not as a demand.

Eliel Saarinen

#6. Talent is what God gives us, Skill is what we give back to Him

Eliel Pierre

#7. Read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism.

Malala Yousafzai

#8. The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

Maya Angelou

#9. The most important things in our intimate lives can't be discussed with strangers, except in books.

Edmund White

#10. It's not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it's been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible.

Cate Blanchett

#11. I never studied anything, really. I didn't study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage.

Ringo Starr

#12. Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect.

Arthur Frederick Saunders

#13. I'm sure that a lot of my friends - even though they're curious about the music of nations that are not on their radar - still don't know what Kuwaiti music sounds like.

Ayshay