Venturi Quotes

#1. Main Street is almost alright.

Robert Venturi

#2. As long as we avoid the creative, we are condemned to reaction.

Paula Gunn Allen

#3. My father always said excuses are the crutches for the untalented.

Ken Venturi

#4. Modernism is about space. Postmodernism is about communication. You should do what turns you on.

Robert Venturi

#5. I've never been able to grow an organ back," Lana said. "Last time I tried ... Let's just hope you don't end up with whip eyes.

Michael Grant

#6. I couldn't say my own name when I was 12.

Ken Venturi

#7. My father taught me that the easiest thing to do was to quit. He'd say, 'It doesn't take any talent to do that.'

Ken Venturi

#8. Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories.

Ken Venturi

#9. When my father spoke, it was to say something meaningful.

Ken Venturi

#10. If you find a footnote, " a library-science prof once told a class of which I was a part, "step on its head and kill it before it can breed.

Stephen King

#11. The hardest thing in golf is trying to two-putt when you have to, because your brain isn't wired that way. You're accustomed to trying to make putts, and when you change that mind-set, your brain short-circuits, especially under pressure.

Ken Venturi

#12. My father was a man of few words.

Ken Venturi

#13. I began seeing my wife, Kathleen, while I was undergoing treatment for prostate cancer.

Ken Venturi

#14. The Man of Steel never rests. Or maybe that's Jose the yard boy. I get my alter egos confused.

Huntley Fitzpatrick

#15. The only thing I trust is silence. And I trust silence completely.

Leonard Jacobson

#16. Art said he wanted to get more distance. I told him to hit it and run backward.

Ken Venturi

#17. I love editing. I think I like it more than any other phase of film making. If I wanted to be frivolous, I might say that everything that precedes editing is merely a way of producing film to edit.

Stanley Kubrick

#18. There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.

Ken Venturi

#19. You can't make good scores happen. You've got to let it happen.

Ken Venturi

#20. When I was a student, I studied philosophy and religion. I talked about being patient. Some people say I was too hopeful, too optimistic, but you have to be optimistic just in keeping with the philosophy of non-violence.

John Lewis

#21. The greatest gift in life is to be remembered.

Ken Venturi

#22. Disharmony that comes from circumstances that are valid has tension, poignancy, quality, and beauty.

Robert Venturi

#23. When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture.

Robert Venturi

#24. All of us have an 'inner clock,' a certain pace at which we function most comfortably and effectively.

Ken Venturi

#25. I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.

Ken Venturi

#26. People thought I was cocky because I didn't talk much. When I first turned pro, reporters asked me who was going to win. I'd say, 'I am' because it was the easier than giving some long, drawn-out answer.

Ken Venturi

#27. I certainly don't walk around my home or being with my family and just using profane language all the time, but on stage, it's a constant.

Andrew Dice Clay

#28. It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building.

Robert Venturi

#29. Retirement isn't so bad. Give me a tall drink, a plush sofa and a rerun of 'Matlock,' and you can have the rest. Matlock is my hero. He never loses.

Ken Venturi

#30. A man liberated from monarchical or hereditary limitations stood a greater chance of possessing a mind free to roam and to grow and to create and to innovate in a climate in which citizens lived together in essential harmony and affection.87 This was Jefferson's ideal republic - and he was

Jon Meacham

#31. After you have the basics down it's all mental.

Ken Venturi

#32. Architectural kitsch is most common in the commercial pop vernacular - typified by the Big Duck of 1931 in Flanders, New York, a Long Island roadside poultry stand resembling a duck, which Venturi and Scott Brown made a cult object through their writings.

Martin Filler

#33. Sometimes you try to make it happen instead of just letting it happen.

Ken Venturi

#34. All of my decisions I made when I was a kid were decisions, would my mother and father be proud of.

Ken Venturi

#35. I had a terrible stammering problem when I was young, and as a result I spent a lot of time alone.

Ken Venturi