Toyo Quotes

#1. Because there are a lot of big cities in the world, people who live in cities have become more isolated than ever.

Toyo Ito

#2. I'm somebody who gets a lot of inspiration from dreams.

M. Ward

#3. I'm not used to people sticking around when things go bad," she said, by way of explanation.

Alexander Freed

#4. I have no interest in saying "This is who I am! This is what I'm like!"

Jen Kirkman

#5. Life is a mission but death is the greatest adventure.

Debasish Mridha

#6. The dreams of the 1960s began to disappear in the 1970s. The economy collapsed, and so did the optimism of the Metabolists.

Toyo Ito

#7. Life is like a beach chair when you can afford one

Joe Budden

#8. They don't talk to me much; I don't feel like i know them." Simon said.
You're not supposed to. It's a members-only club."
Simon accepted this. "So Akira is the angry one, Kisho is the crazy one, Toyo is the old fart ...

Jason Hightman

#9. There are war-torn countries, people full of poverty, who still voted 60, 70 percent. If here in the United States of America, we voted at 60 percent, 70 percent, it would transform our politics.

Barack Obama

#10. The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#11. I think of architecture as a piece of clothing to wrap around human beings

Toyo Ito

#12. Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone.

Lisa Alther

#13. The only people who need to fear me, are those that hurt you ... - TDS, Seven Dirty Words

Charlotte V. Howard

#14. We have to base architecture on the environment.

Toyo Ito

#15. Every time you post something online you have a choice. You can either make it something that adds to the happiness levels in the world-or you can make it something that takes away.

Zoe Sugg

#16. There are so many constraints on the architect that public buildings almost never feel free or enjoyable.

Toyo Ito

#17. I am trying to counter the fixity of architectures, their stolidity, with elements that give an ineffable immaterial quality.

Toyo Ito

#18. I sometimes feel that we are losing an intuitive sense of our own bodies.

Toyo Ito

#19. Venerate the man, whoever he may be, who has this sign - the starry eye.

Victor Hugo

#20. I would like to use architecture to create bonds between people who live in cities, and even use it to recover the communities that used to exist in every single city.

Toyo Ito

#21. So I watch my sadness, gleaming in all of its soft pastel glory. And I listen to the arguments against my sanity.

Brandi L. Bates

#22. Children don't run around outside as much as they did. They sit in front of computer games.

Toyo Ito

#23. Nearly 100 years ago, when Planned Parenthood was founded, birth control was illegal.

Cecile Richards

#24. The work of God is done on God's timetable. His answers to our prayers come always in time
His time. His thoughts are far higher than ours, His wisdom past understanding.

Elisabeth Elliot

#25. It's a fact of life. Hearts are always hurting. And yet they still keep pumping.

Cecil Castellucci

#26. I will never fix my architectural style and never be satisfied with my works.

Toyo Ito