Top 44 Farnsworth Quotes
#1. When one looks at Nature through the glass walls of the Farnsworth House, it takes on a deeper significance than when one stands outside. More of Nature is thus expressed - it becomes part of a greater whole.
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
#2. All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
[Conversation with Elizabeth Farnsworth, PBS NewsHour, March 9, 1998]
Toni Morrison
#3. Philo Farnsworth invented TV at the age of 22.
Philo
#4. You could never hide yourself in these places - in Mies's Farnsworth house, for example. That was a mistake of Modernism. People need places to hide from each other, too. You need everything.
Ben Van Berkel
#5. If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.
Johnny Carson
#6. Congrats to Clare Farnsworth on a legendary career! One of the all-time great Seahawks! We will miss you Clare!
Pete Carroll
#7. Tarryton did so, but not before saying, "I wouldn't be surprised if Billington came up to scratch on this gel."
"Billington, Farnsworth, and a few others," Alex said with his most affable smile.
"Ashbourne?" Dunford's voice was colder than ice.
"Dunford?"
"Shut up.
Julia Quinn
#8. Lyme disease is preventable, but only if Canadians have the information they need to prevent it.
Vanessa Farnsworth
#10. And when the man who commanded a nuclear arsenal and the greatest military in history was frightened, it meant that something other than human intervention was required. That, unfortunately, was part of Zach's job every day now. That was where Nathaniel Cade came in
Christopher Farnsworth
#11. Couldn't you hypnotize her or something?"
"It doesn't work like that."
"I thought vampires were all sex gods with the ladies."
Cade looked at him. "What gave you that idea?"
"Uh ... late-night TV, mostly ... "
"Humans are our food. Do you want to have sex with a cow?
Christopher Farnsworth
#12. David Lynch was very good, very patient with us, and the reaction in the United States seems pretty good.
Richard Farnsworth
#13. But I don't really care for directors flaring up and trying to humble some actor, which they would do to try and make an example out of them so everybody else would stay on the ball - and David wasn't anything like that.
Richard Farnsworth
#14. The Boogeyman,' he said, just to be sure. 'The Boogeyman killed an employee of the President of the United States.'
The president nodded.
Some days, Zach thought, I really hate this job.
Christopher Farnsworth
#15. What did you think of him?" Cade asked.
"Give me some credit," Zach said. "Guy's more full of shit than a duck pond.
Christopher Farnsworth
#18. Cade seemed a little too sure of his conclusion from too little evidence. "Cade. If you knew something I didn't, you'd tell me, right?"
"I know a lot of things you don't, Zach. We don't have that kind of time.
Christopher Farnsworth
#19. Never trust a man who doesn't like ice cream. If that's not a saying, it should be.
Christopher Farnsworth
#20. A master welder can strike an arc blindfolded, with one hand, upside down, in a snowstorm. Okay,
Steven Robert Farnsworth
#21. I worked for John Ford, Howard Hawks, Henry Hathaway, Raoul Walsh - I worked for some real good directors.
Richard Farnsworth
#22. No I didn't audition, I didn't even know David Lynch till the week before I started the film.
Richard Farnsworth
#23. I worked for Sam Peckinpah on quite a bit of action in his films, and he got excited once in a while.
Richard Farnsworth
#25. I never get tired of people telling me how important their job is as an excuse for screwing it up.
Christopher Farnsworth
#26. Something you killed didn't stay dead? Wow. That must have really put some termites in your coffin.
Christopher Farnsworth
#27. It's been around for almost a hundred years," Latham said. He looked at Cade. "Is it like you? A vampire?"
"No," Cade said. "It's worse."
"Awesome," Latham muttered.
Christopher Farnsworth
#28. Zach had been on the receiving end of a few of Lanning's ass-chewings back in the day. They were epic sagas of righteous fury and perfectly applied touches of profanity. It was like being verbally disemboweled.
Christopher Farnsworth
#29. For everything that's known about Lyme disease, there are still an extraordinary number of unknowns in some fairly fundamental areas.
Vanessa Farnsworth
#30. Cade was a vampire. Zach had finally gotten over that. For the most part. Other people could argue about how vampires didn't exist, how they were just relics of folklore and sexual repression and nightmares. Zach had to work with Cade. Denial only got in the way.
Christopher Farnsworth
#31. When they come and the guns are thundering and the men are falling all around you, there is only one way you will stop it. You are going to have to kill. So you be the best goddamned killer there is.
Christopher Farnsworth
#32. Helen savored the peace and quiet that only came in the complete absence of stupid questions.
Christopher Farnsworth
#33. I don't know if you saw the parting of the Red Sea with the chariots on the horses, I did stuff like that.
Richard Farnsworth
#35. Nothing was more nauseating than people who constantly complained about their life, but did nothing about it.
Sonia Farnsworth
#36. But the law's dream - anyone's dream - would be to turn the clock back and stop the bad thing from happening in the first place.
Ward Farnsworth
#39. It's sorcery," Cade said, as if explaining things to a slow child. "That's the explanation." "I'm a scientist," she said. "I need a little more than 'a wizard did it.
Christopher Farnsworth
#40. There's nothing on it worthwhile, and we're not going to watch it in this household, and I don't want it in your intellectual diet.
Philo Farnsworth
#41. He was probably already in one of the nearby restaurants - a TGIChiliMcAppleBarrel's or whatever ...
Christopher Farnsworth
#42. and from the enactment in 1890 of the Sherman Act, the first of the great federal antitrust statutes. And
E. Allan Farnsworth
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