Yeang Quotes

#1. I am designing the future on beer mats, like Churchill and Stalin at Yalta.

David Mitchell

#2. You pay a price when you have an objective sentencing system. That is, nothing is perfect.

Jeff Sessions

#3. Way for new, winter taking away the remnants of the old to clear room for the young growth. Life, in other words, in all its fierce beauty and stark routine. All things went to the soil eventually. It was the way of life.

Diana Palmer

#4. Ain't nothin' but a whole lot of suckin' goin' on in rap.

Eminem

#5. It was the cowards who died many times before their death.

Mahatma Gandhi

#6. Contentment with our lot is an element of happiness.

Aesop

#7. Unattached and aimless, these old men are always infatuated with little certainties and regularities such as those that ordered the life of Mr. Krupper as seen from outside. Habit is living. Anything unexpected reminds them of death.
("Hard Candy")

Tennessee Williams

#8. In my heart I believe that biology is the beginning and the end of everything. It's the biggest source of ideas, the biggest source of invention. Nobody can invent better than nature and so if you like nature is my biggest source of inspiration.

Ken Yeang

#9. The surest way to damage society is to call for a "great man" to lead it. The surest way to improve society is to become a great man to lead oneself and convince others to do likewise.

Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

#10. Character roles only indicate that they're very different from who you are as a person, and for me, it's fun hiding behind characters that are so unlike who I am.

Mark Hamill

#11. The ecologist has a much more comprehensive and holistic view of the world. We're looking at the natural environment as well as the human built environment and the connectivity between the two - how do the natural environment and the human-built environment interact and interface with each other.

Ken Yeang

#12. Like a White Russian drinking tea in Paris, marooned in the twentieth century, I wander back, try to regain hose distant pathways; I become too maudlin, lose myself. Weep ... I sit in the chair and ooze like a sponge.

Margaret Atwood

#13. We shouldn't just look at new buildings but at existing stock building because that's an even greater problem than the new buildings being built. The renovation of existing buildings and making them green is just as important as designing new green buildings.

Ken Yeang

#14. The best way to know God's will is to be familiar with the Bible.

Pat Robertson

#15. I think buildings should imitate ecological systems. Ecological systems in nature before we had human beings interfere with them exist in a state of stasis - they are self-supporting, self-sustaining.

Ken Yeang