Lebbeus Woods Quotes

#1. You can't keep messing me around like this. It's been going on too long. I can't take it anymore. I get sick every time you come around. Then I get sick when you leave. You're like a disease to me.

Sam Shepard

#2. Only if God IS ultimate reality, can he be our unconditional concern; only then can he be the object of surrender, obedience, and assent. Faith in anything which has only preliminary reality is idolatrous.

Paul Tillich

#3. There was one point on which they were agreed: there was no way you could play classical music on a white piano.

Pascal Garnier

#4. People who are afraid to sacrifice somebody have no business talking about a common purpose.

Ayn Rand

#5. Silence prevails once again . . . and I've decided to eat the crushed glass. Final answer.

Jandy Nelson

#6. I'm not interested in living in a fantasy world ... All my work is still meant to evoke real architectural spaces. But what interests me is what the world would be like if we were free of conventional limits. Maybe I can show what could happen if we lived by a different set of rules.

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#7. I think, you know, architecture should not just be something that follows up on events but be a leader of events ... by implementing an architectural action, you actually are making a transformation in the social fabric and in the political fabric. Architecture becomes an instigator.

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#8. I was busy counting the cut of his abs and had just reached six when he pulled it down over my head and then tugged my arms into the sleeves.

Rochelle Paige

#9. She was loved deeply, but not widely

John Green

#10. Every so often we hear people clamor for a change. Let's change the Constitution, change the form of Government, change everything for better or worse except to change the only thing that needs changing first: The human heart and our standard of success and human values.

William J.H. Boetcker

#11. A lot of my work is about questioning the stability and permanence of architecture, and, in turn, the stability of society.

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#12. Architecture and war are not incompatible. Architecture is war. War is architecture. I am at war with my time, with history, with all authority that resides in fixed and frightened forms.

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#13. Drugs are your friends, treat them with respect. You wouldn't throw your friends in the garbage. You wouldn't flush your friends down the toilet. If that's the way you treat your friends or your drugs, you don't deserve to have either. Give them to me.

George Alec Effinger

#14. If there's going to be another movement, another direction in architecture, it has to engage people differently. Other than saying, here, look at this, isn't this amazing? It has to interactively involve them other than as spectators ... it has to engage them as creators.

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#15. Oh, God," I whispered, realizing Rick knew that I'd murdered his brothers.

Kendall Banks

#16. I'm a musical theater guy. That's where I came from. That's where I go whenever I have the chance. It's my first love.

Scott Bakula

#17. The world can be a big, cold place. No reason we can't give each other a hand and ease the way a bit.

Karen McQuestion

#18. You are what you believe you are.We make images in our minds of what will be based on what we believe or want, what we're afraid of." Dr. Woodhouse to Caulder and Ginny

Kristen D. Randle

#19. Gravity is the insidious enemy of the animate.

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#20. Architecture is about ideas in the first place. You don't get to design until you have an idea.

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#21. Architecture is a political act, by nature. It has to do with the relationships between people and how they decide to change their conditions of living.

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#22. Unlike the past decades, the present moment is lacking in architectural discourse.

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