Top 18 John Lautner Quotes
#1. Some architects, such as John Lautner, never really did anything other than houses. His entire portfolio is basically residential. There's nothing wrong with that.
Steven Holl
#2. Employee of the month is a good example of how somebody can be both a winner and a loser at the same time.
Demetri Martin
#3. The goal of privacy is not to protect some stable self from erosion but to create boundaries where this self can emerge, mutate, and stabilize.
Evgeny Morozov
#4. My father liked doing carpentry work, construction work, in the summer vacation. And so my mother designed a cabin, a log cabin, like a - it was like a Swiss chalet. I was twelve years old, and my father and I built it on a rocky point peninsula out into Lake Superior.
John Lautner
#6. My girlfriend has crabs, I bought her fishnet stockings.
Jay London
#7. Even though every piece of today feels small. I'll do today, glancing up and remembering a race is completed the same way this book is completed. Step by step. Word by word. Day by day.
Jennie Allen
#8. I had to work in one of the most beautiful ski resorts in the world for almost three weeks. Pity me.
David Duchovny
#9. You are bigger than your circumstances.
Liz Murray
#10. Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. By the time you're seventy or eighty, you're still beginning. So, that's the kind of life I've preferred to being the expert at forty and dead, you know.
John Lautner
#11. To me, architecture is an art, naturally, and it isn't architecture unless it's alive. Alive is what art is. If it's not alive, it's dead, and it's not art.
John Lautner
#12. I had a beautiful childhood, so my adulthood has been really frustrating because it's - half the time it hasn't been as good as my childhood.
John Lautner
#14. You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back - it's hard for us to understand what the experience of a refugee might be like.
Naomi Shihab Nye
#15. For children, play is exceedingly seriously & important
Fred Rogers
#16. D. H. Lawrence's "Never trust the teller. Trust the tale" is always right.
Greil Marcus
#17. When you're sad and when you're lonely and you haven't got a friend, just remember that death is not the end.
Bob Dylan