Quotes About Daniel Burnham

#1. An artist, he paints with lakes and wooded slopes, with lawns and banks and forest-covered hills. - Daniel Burnham talking about Frederick Law Olmstead

Erik Larson

#2. I find it all infinitely sad, but at the same time so entrancing, that I often feel as if it would be the part of wisdom to fly at once to the woods or mountains where one can always find peace. - Dora Root in a letter to Daniel Burnham

Erik Larson

#3. Once the violence has ceased, the US should immediately call on the World Bank and other international institutions to convene a donors conference to rebuild Lebanon's shattered infrastructure.

John Conyers

#4. Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.

Daniel Burnham

#5. Your illness is not your identity. Your chemistry is not your character.

Rick Warren

#6. Scuttle no small plans. They have no magic to stir single issue individuals into a group of people against everything.

Daniel Burnham

#7. I like - there's a better word for it, but I like the danger that a comic brings to a role. It has a feeling, even though everything's scripted and everything's planned what you're going to do. When I see Will Ferrell or Sacha Baron Cohen, there's a feeling that anything could happen.

Todd Phillips

#8. Who are we but the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, and believe?

Scott Turow

#9. We've done a lot of films now about the IRA, we can move on from all that. I loved '71 because I think it showed a very honest trail and what it was actually like. It wasn't one-sided. I really respect ['71 director] Yann [Demange] for what he did. But we have done a lot of those things.

Saoirse Ronan

#10. If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.

Benjamin Franklin

#11. A noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die.

Daniel Burnham

#12. As they went out of the room Rosa turned to look at Tommy and had an impulse to go back, to get into bed with him and just lie there for a while feeling that deep longing, that sense of missing him desperately, that came over her whenever she held him sleeping in her arms.

Michael Chabon

#13. It was Chicago with its World's Fair which vivified the national desire for civic beauty.

Daniel Burnham

#14. I went to Harvard for examination with two men not as well prepared as I. Both passed easily, and I flunked, having sat through two or three examinations without being able to write a word.' The same happened at Yale, Both schools turned him down. He never forgot it.

Erik Larson

#15. Film is not a national business. It's international. And its centre will always be Hollywood.

Eric Fellner

#16. Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.

Daniel Burnham

#17. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.

Daniel Burnham

#18. Consider that nirvana is itself no other than our life.

Dogen

#19. Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.
Daniel H. Burnham

Erik Larson

#20. The only way to handle big business is to delegate, delegate, delegate.

Daniel Burnham