Louis Kahn Quotes

You say to a brick, 'What do you want, brick?' And brick says to you, 'I like an arch.' And you say to brick, 'Look, I want one, too, but arches are expensive and I can use a concrete lintel.' And then you say: 'What do you think of that, brick?' Brick says: 'I like an arch.'

Louis Kahn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: architect
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 20, 1901 - March 17, 1974

Topics

ThinkYouLookBrickI CanWant

I don't think I really know just how cool Satan really was when I was in Junior High School. Now, thanks to Marilyn Manson, it's no longer a secret.

Jim Coleman

SchoolCoolHigh SchoolThinkKnow

Rather than allow themselves to be separated from the love of Christ, they submitted cheerfully to every privation, to contumely and disgrace, and to death itself.

John Strachan

LoveDeathChristRatherThanAllow

My every action is to liberate God from his sorrow.

Sun Myung Moon

GodActionSorrowEveryHis

If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.

Toni Morrison

BookYouWantWriteMustBeen

How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties or the early sixties of the last century!

Mary Augusta Ward

TodayEarlyRealizeSixtiesLittle

American society to me and my brother was thrilling because, first of all, the food made noise. We were so excited about Rice Krispies and Coca-Cola. We had only silent food in our country, and we loved listening to our lunch and breakfast.

Mike Nichols

FoodBrotherBreakfastMeLunch

If you are strong, and you are fighting the weak for any period of time, you are going to become weak yourself. If you behave like a coward, then you are going to become cowardly - it's only a question of time.

Martin Van Creveld

TimeYourselfStrongFightingYou

Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence.

Michael Polanyi

IntelligenceExerciseHumanWithin

Intelligence, knowledge or experience are important and might get you a job, but strong communication skills are what will get you promoted.

Mireille Guiliano

CommunicationKnowledgeJobStrong

As women, we can over-think things so much that we silence our intuition and only focus on the reasons something won't work.

Mindy Grossman

WorkWomenFocusSilenceIntuition

I want to say, embrace your sexuality, own it, be confident, but you don't have to show everything. Respect yourself, and make others respect you.

Liz Goldwyn

RespectYourselfConfidentYouWant

When you start making a movie, people want to know: Who's the star power? And very early, I realized there's not a lot of 26-year-old black actors who have been given the opportunity to be the lead of a film. It's, like, Michael B. Jordan, and then we're done.

Jordan Peele

OpportunityPowerPeopleStartBlack

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