Top 28 Seidler Quotes
#1. You flourish one hushed breath at a time. Imagine all you can build word by single word.
Laurie Seidler
#2. What did Romeo and Juliet do?"
They died," I remind her gently. "Some mix-up with the poison-
Gordon Korman
#3. Now, I never had ever had
Troubles before,
So I said to myself,
"I don't want anymore.
Dr. Seuss
#5. The form language used by the ancient Egyptians in their structures is minimal.
Harry Seidler
#6. Borne out of this, starting around the 17th Century was the Baroque era. It is my view that it is one of the architectural peak periods in western civilisation.
Harry Seidler
#7. The government only makes restrictive rules, they don't show you what to do so you know, OK, here's where we need this many apartments, with open space, playgrounds, kindergartens.
Harry Seidler
#8. After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration.
Harry Seidler
#9. We are each given different gifts and talents by our Master. The thing that matters most is how we use what we have been given, not how much we make or do compared to someone else. What matters is that we spend ourselves.
Francis Chan
#11. My theory is you shouldn't apologize for believing in an idea-channeling muse. You should just be sure to feed her.
Laurie Seidler
#12. I've always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that.
Harry Seidler
#14. Doubt is not an offense. Questioning is a step toward understanding. I am riven by beauty. I am humbled by grace. I strive to be kind, but not because I was told to.
Laurie Seidler
#15. Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.
Harry Seidler
#16. The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.
Harry Seidler
#17. Language is a door. Words en-trance and are an entrance; they draw you in. When you read, the book you cradle disappears and the tales within unfold in your mind. Writing is a shelter of words and reading an interior adventure.
Laurie Seidler
#18. At the age of 80, I'm becoming a visual artist. This could be my rebirth.
Harry Seidler
#19. The politics of the greater evil was a common creation at a time of chaos. -
Timothy Snyder
#20. After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings.
Harry Seidler
#21. If there is one country and its people that have contributed most to western civilisation's man-made world continuously for the last 2000 years, it must surely be Italy.
Harry Seidler
#22. I pray that former rejection and deep hurts will not color what I see and hear now.
Sue Augustine
#23. George Lucas doesn't have the most physical stamina. He was so unhappy making Star Wars that he just vowed he'd never do it again.
Francis Ford Coppola
#24. You can't be loyal to others if you're not loyal to your own nature first.
Tor Seidler
#25. As much as the needs of fact, the needs of the spirit and the senses, must be satisfied. Architecture is as much a part of the realm of art as it is of technology; the fusion of thinking and feeling.
Harry Seidler
#26. Fifty years ago people were talking about Sydney's sprawl, but nobody does anything about it.
Harry Seidler
#27. From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber.
Harry Seidler
#28. Japan's humid and warm summer climate, as well as frequent earthquakes resulted in lightweight timber buildings raised off the ground that are resistant to earth tremors.
Harry Seidler
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