Joseph Rykwert Quotes

#1. I just wanted friends. I just wanted people to like me. I just wanted for things to be simple and good. So, for five years I actively sought out mediocrity.

Evangeline Lilly

#2. Mixed use is what cities are all about. If you don't have mixed use, you don't have cities.

Joseph Rykwert

#3. I left her in the forest of Arden; I shall find her in an orchard in Verona.

Oscar Wilde

#4. I've allowed some of these points to stand, because this is a book of memory, and memory has its own story to tell. But I have done my best to make it tell a truthful story.

Tobias Wolff

#5. So Shakespeare stole; but he did wonderful things with his plunder. He's like somebody who nicks your old socks and then darns them.

Mark Forsyth

#6. And maybe it was fair; if a book was any good, it was a slap in the face to someone.

John Irving

#7. He who knows himself knows God

Ali R.A

#8. One of the general considerations about new buildings is that people tend to say that anything new is a monstrosity. And then after a while they either accept them or they go on thinking that they are monstrosities. Reactions vary. This depends to some extent on the quality of the building.

Joseph Rykwert

#9. The price of property in city centres is making it impossible, particularly in the big cities, for any kind of social mix to take place. It's castrating the whole notion of city life

Joseph Rykwert

#10. I'm a killer, not a thief.

John Hart

#11. Philosopher is becoming God in the process called life.

Kedar Joshi

#12. If you look at the entrance halls of the skyscrapers of the 1920s and 1930s, they are very welcoming. They are public spaces with enormous amounts of display and marble and so on. They were havens off the street.

Joseph Rykwert

#13. Getting up on stage and being able to make people feel like their lives are slightly more special than they realize is my only talent, so that's what I use. I use my talent.

Torquil Campbell

#14. I am all for greening tall buildings, but I'm also very keen to note that greening a building doesn't cope with the problem of the tall building in the texture of the city.

Joseph Rykwert

#15. This three-dimensional froth even produces tunnels and wormlike tubes commonly depicted in embedding diagrams for quantum froth. The connecting bridges in the foam correspond to wormholes between different universes or between different places in the same universe.

Clifford A. Pickover

#16. Philosophy's work is finding the shortest path between two points.

Khalil Gibran

#17. My books are so tame!

Sarah Dessen

#18. Most people were raised to think they are not worthy. School is a process of taking beautiful kids who are filled with life and beating them into happy slavery. That's as true of a twenty-five-thousand-dollar-a-year executive as it is for the poorest.
Bill Talcott - Organizer

Studs Terkel