Philip Johnson Quotes

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

Philip Johnson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: architect
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 8, 1906 - January 25, 2005

Topics

LiveDeathWantBeyondArchitects

I think we all have a kind of dark side, and that's what keeps life - and characters - interesting. That's one of the things that I'm drawn to write about again and again, the secrets we keep and how they shape us.

Jennifer McMahon

LifeThinkInterestingSecretsDark

That the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit.

John Joly

NatureSeaBeautifulAdmitSights

Pursuing music eats into your life to the point where there is no space left for anything else. You are lucky if you find a partner who is able to understand that, but even then, they will only understand it for a while, and then things get - you know, difficult.

Jean-Michel Jarre

LifeMusicSpacePartnerYouFind

I've certainly worked with really great directors who haven't acted.

Steve Buscemi

GreatWhoReallyDirectorsCertainly

I just want to be challenged. I want to be proud of what I do, and I want to learn new things and keep growing.

Tricia Helfer

New ThingsProudLearnNewGrowing

There's a kind of funny gap between 14 and 20 when young people don't read very much. Nobody really knows what to do about it, although we've tried to reach these dropout readers with the 'young adult' book.

Lloyd Alexander

FunnyPeopleBookReachYoungKind

Everybody has culture, even white people have culture, but its different with me. So in high school, I was hanging out with the black and Hispanic kids. I'm not hating on white people. I hang with white people, too, but that's where I felt most accepted because I could relate to them more.

Logic

CultureSchoolPeopleMeHigh School

Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plow. The trick is just to wake thmem up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

MusicYouPersonYoungMeetWithin

I've been really lucky in that I've been able to work so much, and pretty much everything I've done has been really great fun.

Peter Billingsley

WorkGreatFunDoneLuckyPretty

Water is commonly regarded as the 'solvent of life,' since our bodies are 70% water. All other vertebrates, invertebrates, microbes, and plants are also primarily water. The organization of water within biological compartments is fundamental to life, and the aquaporins serve as the plumbing systems for cells.

Peter Agre

LifeWaterPlantsOrganizationServe

If you're into a certain band, you're into the way they dress.

Paul Weller

DressYouWayBandCertain

There's a lot of things that go into scoring touchdowns and leading your team. It's not just the game itself, but going back and studying tape to pick apart everything I did. It's nice to have something to go on, doing it full speed in a game situation.

Tim Tebow

TeamGameDoingSpeedBackNice

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