Ramus Quotes

#1. We're married. I'm your safe place. I've always been your safe place.

Christina Lauren

#2. No writing on the solitary, meditative dimensions of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.

Thomas Merton

#3. It's time for architecture to do things again, not just represent things.

Joshua Prince-Ramus

#4. In war the olive branch of peace is of use.
[Lat., Adjuvat in bello pacatae ramus olivae.]

Ovid

#5. Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process.

Joshua Prince-Ramus

#6. When I went to college, I thought I was going to become a professional musician. I was a French horn player, so I went to Yale to study with a very unusual French horn player.

Joshua Prince-Ramus

#7. Halls are full of strangers, even when you recognize the faces.

Jayme K.

#8. I have never been wired to be front and centre of spotlight and ready to dance.

Ryan Lewis

#9. Some people think architecture is about the genius sketch; I don't. Great architecture is a collaboration among a lot of people over a long period of time.

Joshua Prince-Ramus

#10. The path up and down is one and the same.

Heraclitus

#11. I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather I fear to lose truth by the pretension to possess it already wholly.

William James

#12. it was obviously the best thing to do if both Britain and France were against it. After

Liaquat Ahamed

#13. Podtyagin considers whether to take offence or not
and decides to take offence.

Anton Chekhov

#14. It's not so much about form versus functionality. Rather, it's about doing both and doing them a lot and doing them well-and that's how we should be talking about architecture.

Joshua Prince-Ramus

#15. A day away from Chartwell is a day wasted.

Winston Churchill

#16. I always wanted to do something creative, but as much as I'm creative, it's in a really hard-core, right-brained way. For me, painting doesn't do it for me. There's no constraint.

Joshua Prince-Ramus

#17. 'Form follows function' comes with so much baggage. It's a worthless phrase because you'll never take it for what it means.

Joshua Prince-Ramus

#18. Architecture is not created by individuals. The genius sketch ... is a myth. Architecture is made by a team of committed people who work together, and in fact, success usually has more to do with dumb determination than with genius.

Joshua Prince-Ramus

#19. Public libraries are the last vestige of public free space.

Joshua Prince-Ramus

#20. Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made.

Joshua Prince-Ramus

#21. Principle of "Christian love": it insists upon being well paid in the end.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#22. You know that look that women get when they want to have sex? Me neither.

Steve Martin

#23. Architects have created this fake separation between creation and execution. You can see it in architecture schools, where the students look down on going to contracts classes.

Joshua Prince-Ramus