Minoru Yamasaki Quotes

I feel this is very important for us to have serene buildings because our civilization is chaotic as it is, you see; our whole machine age has brought about a chaos that has to be somehow counterbalanced, I think.

Minoru Yamasaki

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: architect
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 1, 1912 - February 6, 1986

Topics

AgeChaosThinkFeelYouBuildings

People don't really talk about falling in love anymore. And yet falling in love is the great engine that drives all the best art - or falling out of love or being heartbroken - drives all the best books, drives all the best music, and yet we've sort of stopped talking about it.

Joanna Coles

LoveMusicGreatArtBestLove Is

I don't think Yahoo can be Facebook tomorrow, and don't think Yahoo wants to be Facebook.

Jerry Yang

TomorrowThinkFacebookWantsYahoo

When you think about the complexity of our natural world - plants using quantum mechanics for photosynthesis, for example - a smartphone begins to look like a pretty dumb object.

Jeff Vandermeer

PlantsWorldThinkYouLookDumb

What I am more concerned about is whether our whole civilization will be around in the next 25 years.

Sonny Rollins

I AmCivilizationWillMoreYears

But some actors I have met possess an intelligence that I can only dream of. It's about character, it's about behavior. They understand things about people that I simply don't see.

Ron Silver

CharacterIntelligencePeopleDream

I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

WomanManEqualityChoiceSaidShe

Everybody wants to be known. Everybody's a Kardashian.

Mike Nichols

EverybodyKnownWants

I feel like the same person, but I feel as if I need to work twice as much now.

Miguel Cabrera

WorkFeelPersonNowNeedSame

I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values - and follow my own moral compass - then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.

Michelle Obama

LiveExpectationsLongValuesMoral

I was bullied. I was a bit of a geek. Good-looking guys were off-limits. I didn't start dating until I was 18.

Michelle Ryan

DatingStartGood-LookingGeekGuys

If rock & roll is dead and gone, man, I am missing out on it.

Johnny Van Zant

ManI AmRockDeadOutGone

Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that.

Joko Beck

LifeForwardEnlightenmentYouGoal

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