Kenneth Frampton Quotes

#1. I spend a lot of time talking about something I believe passionately, which is that life is what you choose to make it, for the most part, and more often than not all you need to do is seize it by the throat and demand more from it.

Frank Turner

#2. It is self-evident that the tabula rasa of modernization favors the optimum use of earth-moving equipment inasmuch as a totally flat datum is regarded as the most economic matrix upon which to predicate the rationalization of construction.

Kenneth Frampton

#3. A different language is a different vision of life.

Federico Fellini

#4. Well, my father's people were Mormon, and had immigrated not long after Brigham Young had settled Utah.

Lynne Cheney

#5. You could draw certain parallels between the structure of the Pompidou and the structure of the rocket-launching facilities at Cape Canaveral. They might not have been thinking about it, but I think there is some kind of unconscious affinity there.

Kenneth Frampton

#6. Many of the received models of modern architecture and planning owe their ultimate origin to the building code and public health reform movements of the second half of the 19th century.

Kenneth Frampton

#7. I think sometimes you have high expectations for people because you have high expectations for yourself.

Gisele Bundchen

#8. Modern building has become so universally conditioned by optimized technology that the possibility of creating significant urban form has become extremely limited.

Kenneth Frampton

#9. I didn't particularly want to go to Westminster - not that there were many seats available or chances for women to get elected. In 1987, Labour sent down 50 MPs, and only one of them was a woman.

Johann Lamont

#10. Fear is choosing the safe course

George Bernard Shaw

#11. On this day I remember words that have stayed with me since my childhood and which matter a great deal to me today, my school motto: "I will try my outmost". This is my promise to all of the people of Britain and now let the work of change begin.

Gordon Brown

#12. I like people to be saints; but I want them to be first and superlatively honest men.

Sophie Swetchine

#13. No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dreams that you wish will come true.

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