Top 42 Minoru Quotes
#1. In my family, there were Kei and Minoru and then there were the rest. Everyone in my family is very opinionated and everyone tried to join the debate. But by the time my turn came, there was nothing left to say. I couldn't keep pace, so I looked to do my own things.
Akira Mori
#2. Damn. How much time did you spend in the library?"
"I am a library.
Brian K. Vaughan
#4. I believe my concepts are more than just business, they are about our culture.
Minoru Mori
#6. We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.
Minoru Yamasaki
#7. And I like the idea of change. Because I don't see why we should hang a painting on the wall and then just not think of it anymore because it's there like a piece of furniture.
Minoru Yamasaki
#8. In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building.
Minoru Yamasaki
#9. The view outside was much more important than the exhibits.
Minoru Yamasaki
#10. How's a skeleton crew supposed to save Chase from the giants who annihilated our parents?"
"I believe your people call it "girl power.
Brian K. Vaughan
#11. I'm sorry if he's bleeding internally. I hope he's not. But I'm not wasting a healing spell on a guy that pointed a gun at us."
"Can you do an 'I'm sorry' spell? I don't wanna get too near him."
"It's not the Staff of Hallmark, Mol.
Joss Whedon
#12. Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.
Minoru Yamasaki
#13. I swear that I will never cause trouble for anybody, as long as I live!! So please! Nobody cause any trouble for me, either!!
Minoru Furuya
#14. I feel this is very important for us to have serene buildings because our civilization is chaotic as it is, you see; our whole machine age has brought about a chaos that has to be somehow counterbalanced, I think.
Minoru Yamasaki
#15. The world has entered a new era, evolving from an industrial into a knowledge-based society, and into a society that wants to live in harmony with nature.
Minoru Mori
#16. The Wayne Education Building was the first classroom building that we have done on the Wayne campus.
Minoru Yamasaki
#17. If you have white walls, human beings look better in a room than if you have red walls.
Minoru Yamasaki
#18. And I think that the environment is one very strong way to counterbalance the chaotic nature of our life.
Minoru Yamasaki
#19. I can't do everything obviously although sometimes I know that all of us wish that we could.
Minoru Yamasaki
#20. I want to do very useful buildings and I would like to find a method of producing these buildings through our technology because I think that this is the only way that we will gain wonderful environment easily in the future.
Minoru Yamasaki
#21. In other words, I have no truck for anyone who goes out and does an eclectic building.
Minoru Yamasaki
#22. I believe that we must understand the economy of the situation.
Minoru Yamasaki
#23. Let's talk about the Gas Company because this is my favorite job.
Minoru Yamasaki
#24. The disadvantages of a decentralized, spread out urban area are tremendous, and the environmental damage of urban sprawl cannot be ignored. As a large city, Tokyo must be used more efficiently and the population density increased.
Minoru Mori
#25. And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.
Minoru Yamasaki
#26. The purpose of architecture is to create an atmosphere in which man can live, work, and enjoy.
Minoru Yamasaki
#27. And sometimes I'm criticized. But I think that if those who criticize us will look at the reason why the shape is this, well then, I think that they would not object so strenuously.
Minoru Yamasaki
#28. If you look at the buildings, you'll find that one part looks as if it was designed by one man, and you go around and look at another facade and it looks as if it was designed by another man, you see.
Minoru Yamasaki
#29. Every kid gets "programmed" by their 'rents, Chase. That doesn't mean they have to do as they're told.
Brian K. Vaughan
#30. And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth; that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.
Minoru Yamasaki
#31. Death is just a chapter break in a never-ending tale, Nico.
Brian K. Vaughan
#32. Because, if we understand how a building is to be produced and we find a way that it can be more simply produced, then obviously we are contributing to building better buildings more easily.
Minoru Yamasaki
#33. So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.
Minoru Yamasaki
#34. Being the gateway to a large city, St. Louis, I had felt from the very beginning that somehow this building should symbolize this sense of being a gateway.
Minoru Yamasaki
#35. But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the Gothic cathedral, for instance, that we like.
Minoru Yamasaki
#36. I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.
Minoru Yamasaki
#37. By using vertical space more effectively, you not only make more room for greenery but shorter commutes also mean less pressure on CO2 emission problems and by freeing up time now spent on unproductive commuter trains, people would have more options in their lives.
Minoru Mori
#38. The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace ... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.
Minoru Yamasaki
#39. If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.
Minoru Yamasaki
#41. To implement a true urban renaissance, you first need a Grand Design elaborated by strong leadership .
Minoru Mori
#42. In this tour around the world I was not interested in contemporary buildings because I had seen contemporary buildings actually until they came out of my ears in a sense.
Minoru Yamasaki
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