Zumthor Buildings Quotes

#1. My first buildings, when I was about 30, were rejected for aesthetic reasons.

Peter Zumthor

#2. I'm not mainly interested in what buildings mean as symbols or vehicles for ideas.

Peter Zumthor

#3. If Glendower had not saved Gansey's life, he did not know who to thank, or who to be, or how to live.

Maggie Stiefvater

#4. Lead them around the woods for a few extra minutes, then come up over a hill from a different direction and the lodge would appear out of nowhere. City kids.

Millard Avon Gregory

#5. I'm a lesbian, an Aquarian, and a vegetarian.

Ellen DeGeneres

#6. CULTIVATE THE GOOD WITHIN

William H. Cormier

#7. Passion about nothing is like pouring gasoline in a car without wheels. It isn't going to lead anybody anywhere.

Donald Miller

#8. We come and go from mystery and, in between, we try to forget.

Diana Gabaldon

#9. He admired her for throwing off her aristocratic shackles
his terms, that
and making her own way in the world.
He didn't realize that the truth was so much more complex, so much less impressive. She had less thrown than been thrown.

Lauren Willig

#10. The bottom line may be that my inventing buildings is, indeed, a very private kind of activity. But it's done to be shared. It is comforting and consoling. From the reactions I get I can see I'm not doing something strange.

Peter Zumthor

#11. I talked to lots of people who are vaccine-hesitant, and I actually was one myself until I got further into this project, and most of them actually are in my demographic: so well-educated people with advanced degrees who are upper middle-class and have read quite a bit on the subject.

Eula Biss

#12. I try not to hit a swing volley and run back. So my swing volley is kind of that transition to the net. It's been one of my favorite shots ever since I was young.

Maria Sharapova

#13. Your childhood, said Yackle coaxingly, as if she could smell his thoughts. As if she could sniff out those passages he hadn't chosen to retail at drink parties.
Her words lulled him. The past, even a bitter past, is usually more pungent than the present, or at least better organized in the mind.

Gregory Maguire

#14. Rwanda had presented the world with the most unambiguous case of genocide since Hitler's war against the Jews, and the world sent blankets, beans, and bandages to camps controlled by the killers, apparently hoping that everybody would behave nicely in the future.

Philip Gourevitch

#15. In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction.

Peter Zumthor

#16. My buildings should have an emotional core - a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling.

Peter Zumthor

#17. Time is precious, make a count.

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