John Coates Quotes

#1. When you feel the architecture just click, as though it couldn't have been anything else, it's due to a true understanding of the site and the plan and section.

Stephen Kanner

#2. Thinking, one could say, is something we do only when we are no good at an activity.

John Coates

#3. Pleasure, of course, is a slippery word ... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's source.

Billy Collins

#4. How could this man - so capable of extreme violence against her - show such gentleness? BUT, she reminded herself, even Hitler loved his dogs."
- Charlotte, The Devil's Serenade

Catherine Cavendish

#5. For a kid who's lost his mom and all the rage and grief that no one was able to talk out of me, football was a very therapeutic sport. Very.

Jon Hamm

#6. I couldn't deal with a normal life.

Sally Mann

#7. There is nothing that fascinates us more, little that agitates the body more completely. Information warns us of danger, prepares us for action, helps us survive. And it enables us to perform that most magical of all tricks - predicting the future.

John Coates

#8. That's what my life has come down to - how can I have fun for me, be with my friends and my family, and how can I help other people.

Elliott Bisnow

#9. If you do a scene the right way, you can go home at the end of the day and really feel like you accomplished something.

Mitch Gaylord

#10. His hearts beat crazily in his chest, so laboured he thought it might burst.

Stephen Lloyd Jones

#11. We will never accomplish anything worthwhile in life if we require the guarantee of success at the onset.

Sherry Thomas

#12. Hard courts are very negative for the body. I know the sport is a business and creating these courts is easier than clay or grass, but I am 100 per cent sure it is wrong.

Rafael Nadal

#13. So of course time is necessary. But nevertheless damn painful, for it transforms all the pieces of your life - joy and sorrow, youth and age, love and hate, terror and bliss - from fire into smoke rising up the air and dissipating on a breeze.

Charles Frazier

#14. Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

Charles Bukowski

#15. Trust me, if I did something, you wouldn't be asking. You'd definitely be feeling it for days to come." His green gaze shimmers, challenging me. "I might be a jerk, but I'm the kind of jerk who always lets the woman come first. And not just once.

J.C. Reed