Glenn Murcutt Quotes

#1. We depend on computers when we ourselves haven't mastered the principles behind what we are asking computers to design.
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Glenn Murcutt

#2. These newspaper reporters ... ever since Sullivan versus New York Times ... have got a license to lie.

Edward Bennett Williams

#3. Sometimes memories follow you wherever you go-you don't need to take them with you.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#4. That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. Life is not about maximizing everything, it's about giving something back - like light, space, form, serenity, joy. You have to give something back.

Glenn Murcutt

#6. Papa Ubu: Captain Bordure, I've decided to make you Duke of Lithuania.

Alfred Jarry

#7. I like to buy expensive things. If I wear something that costs more than a month's salary, I amply feel that the rotting carcass of me is at least shrouded nicely.

Tarryn Fisher

#8. The Fairy Godmother surveyed the Princess's bedroom. It was littered with the remains of chocolate bars, potato chips, and ice cream containers. She swept cheesy crumbs off the bed and sat softly beside the grieving girl. The Princess's face was puffy and streaked with mascara.

Kym Petrie

#9. She believed in her dream like a fabled virgin mother expecting a messiah.

C.J. Anderson

#10. We do not create the work. I believe we, in fact, are discoverers.

Glenn Murcutt

#11. If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.

Leo Tolstoy

#12. I go from a corruptible to an incorruptible Crown, where no disturbance can be, no disturbance in the world. Remember!

Charles I Of England

#13. It is in the quiet that you gain perspective when you have to deal with the loud.

Todd Stocker

#14. Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.

Anthony Kiedis

#15. If it feels as though life is screwing with you - it isn't. The world isn't 'against you'.
It's simply showing you what you believe and giving you a chance to observe it and change it.

Dana Gore

#16. It's because I do see sex as sacred and potentially spiritual that I believe in commercializing it and making this potentially holy experience more easily available to all.

Chester Brown