Kuma Quotes

#1. Many years ago, we were only able to build boxes. Today, architects from all over the world are working with us - Zaha Hadid from London, Gerkan, Marg and Partner from Hamburg, Kengo Kuma from Japan. We brought design and digitalization from abroad to China.

Zhang Xin

#2. One week I'll get pancakes at Bongo Room, the next week I go to Kuma's Corner. But I always end up at Coldstone. I love ice cream.

CM Punk

#3. EMBRACING THE EXISTING Japanese perspective on urban history and context

Kengo Kuma

#4. After owning a pool, I think the best way to enjoy the water is to have a friend who has a pool.

Frances Mayes

#5. Discipline can only be obtained when all the officers are imbued with the sense of their awful obligation to their men and to their country that they cannot tolerate negligence. Officers who fail to correct errors or to praise excellence are valueless in peace and dangerous misfits in war.

George S. Patton

#6. The name Zahra was to have been lman's own name at birth, but a senior member of the family changed it to lman at the last minute.

David Bowie

#7. You would think that when someone accepts a position with a company, they would assume that their life will be better off because they have that job rather than a different one.

Tom Rath

#8. The world is a more tragic and dangerous place when American isn't leading and, under this president, we have not been leading.

Carly Fiorina

#9. If I want more, I need to go and get it, demand it, take hold of it with all my might, and do the best I can with it.

Melina Marchetta

#10. The criteria for architecture after the tsunami is humbleness

Kengo Kuma

#11. Ah, horrible war, amazing medley of the glorious and the squalid, the pitiful and the sublime, if modern men of light and leading saw your face closer, simple folk would see it hardly ever.

Winston S. Churchill

#12. I tried to think of what my father would tell me. 'Don't let any boy give you shit.' But he'd never said how we should go about preventing this.

Joyce Maynard

#13. Being able and willing to complain is what makes us rational and moral animals, capable of seeing and articulating the difference between how things are and how they should be.

Julian Baggini

#14. I don't really care about plot; I want to have a page-turner in a different kind of way.

Barry Hannah

#15. If we could combine Starbucks spirit with the spirit of the artisan, we knew we could achieve something special.

Kengo Kuma

#16. I was withering away, mentally, spiritually, physically, creatively- everything was fading out.

Anthony Kiedis

#17. When cowards hide behind great walls, it is they who are defeated, Khaleesi," Ko Jhogo said. Her other bloodriders concurred. "Blood of my blood," said Rakharo, "when cowards hide and burn the food and fodder, great khals must seek for braver foes. This is known.

George R R Martin

#18. It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.

Robert Louis Stevenson