Witold Rybczynski Quotes

#1. I come from musical theater, and a lot of musical theater is about accepting fantasy. I think it is more about just being open and accepting.

Amy Adams

#2. The most beautiful house in the world is the one that you build for yourself.

Witold Rybczynski

#3. The truth is that a nineteenth-century warehouse exhibits greater craft in its construction than all but the most expensive modern buildings.

Witold Rybczynski

#4. There are scores of books offering 'solutions' to sprawl. Their authors would do well to read this book.

Witold Rybczynski

#5. Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.

Sappho

#6. Providence has so ordained it, that only two women have a true interest in the happiness of a man
his own mother, and the mother of his children. Besides these two legitimate kinds of love, there is nothing between the two creatures except vain excitement, painful and vain delusion.

Octave Feuillet

#7. It's superb, definitely. Something that is new to me, that is shocking. I got the news last night about 3 in the morning, and I don't think I even went back to bed.

Scottie Pippen

#8. You could walk out of the house, but you always returned home.

Witold Rybczynski

#9. Architecture is an applied art, founded not on theories but on practice.

Witold Rybczynski

#10. There may be fewer people in the American house of the nineties, but there are a lot more things.

Witold Rybczynski

#11. You -have- to love your monster.

Philippa Dowding

#12. Television watching should more properly be called television staring; it engages eye and ear simultaneously in a relentless and persistent way and leaves no room for daydreaming. This is what makes watching such an inferior form of leisure

Witold Rybczynski

#13. For where else, if not in the home, can we let our imagination wander?

Witold Rybczynski