Louis Kahn Quotes

Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.

Louis Kahn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ArchitectureWallEventColumn

I know I have the ability to do so much more than just stand in front of the camera the rest of my life.

Jennie Garth

LifeRestStandMy LifeCameraKnow

In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual.

Andrew Sullivan

LiveFreedomHumanRightAttachment

For some members of the radical Left, particularly in the West, people in developing countries are an ideological abstraction, on whom fantasies of liberation are projected from a comfortable distance.

Amitava Kumar

PeopleDistanceComfortableLeft

Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.

Tom Robbins

WisdomHumorEvilSurvivalSerious

There's room in the Republican Party for anyone who wants to be a part of the values that we espouse when it comes to the role of government, free enterprise, free markets.

Michael Steele

GovernmentFreeValuesPartyRoom

Owned technologies are easy to grasp because they're so prevalent. They're technologies that are developed and shaped by a defined group, usually someone selling it.

Jonathan Zittrain

SomeoneEasySellingGroupBecause

I used to love going on a junket and promoting a film when it was not a 24-hour news cycle, and when there weren't so many media outlets. You could actually talk about the film.

Debra Winger

LoveMediaYouNewsTalkGoing

All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.

Clive Bell

ArtPeopleEmotionPeculiarAgree

From the very beginning, our goal has been to establish a normal company in the Western sense.

Pyotr Aven

BeginningGoalCompanyNormalSense

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

WisdomHonestyTruthBookChapter

I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on which is to say first draft, then put it aside for 24 hours then more drafts.

Marilyn Hacker

BetterSayEverydayTryWriteFirst

Famine emerges from a lack of interlocal trade; when one locality's food crop fails, since there is virtually no trade with other localities, the bulk of the people starve. It is precisely the permeation of the free market throughout the world that has virtually ended this scourge of famine by permitting trade between areas.

Murray Rothbard

FoodPeopleWorldFreeTradeMarket

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