Peter Zumthor Quotes

I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness... I think of the patina of age on materials, of innumerable small scratches on surfaces, of varnish that has grown dull and brittle, and of edges polished by use.

Peter Zumthor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: architect
  • Nationality: swiss
  • Birth: April 26, 1943

Topics

LifeGoodAgeI AmBuildingSmall

You can go ahead and break a law, and you can come to a sanctuary city, and they wouldn't enforce the laws.

Jim Inhofe

CityLawYouGoAheadBreak

Dennis Hopper is one of the great American lives.

Jeffrey Deitch

GreatAmericanGreat AmericanLives

This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.

Stendhal

AgeBoredomCurseEvenCureOur

Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts.

Stephen Breyer

LawIndependenceFactsYouDecide

'Medea' is an enormous challenge for an actor physically, mentally, emotionally. You have to dig very, very deep, and to work, your performance has to be very personal.

Diana Rigg

WorkChallengePerformanceDeepYou

I don't have any romantic ideas about marriage. Trust me. A white dress... ? No. It's not something for me.

Diane Kruger

MarriageRomanticTrustDressIdeas

In fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure.

Dick Schaap

YearsFiftyDominantFarCourseAli

Growing up, I watched my single mother work hard to provide for her three kids. She raised us in a one-bathroom house on a public-school teacher's salary of $22,000 a year.

Conner Eldridge

WorkMotherTeacherGrowing UpYear

Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, John Wayne - these men had the code of the West.

Chuck Norris

MenWestCodeJohn WayneHadRogers

Since I was a kid - youngest of five kids - I've always been starved for attention, like 'Look at me! Look at me! Look what I can do!'

Brendon Urie

MeAttentionLookI CanKidAlways

I bobbed and weaved through my career. And in hindsight, though I'd like to say it was a plan - it was not - the bobbing and the weaving gave me a broad base from which to become an executive who could say, 'OK, I've done this, and I've done this, and I've done this.' And nobody could BS me, because I'd done most of it.

Bonnie Hammer

MePlanCareerNobodyDoneBecome

I've already exceeded my expectations for myself. I'm one of the most influential people! I mean come on! I wanted to be... I never thought the things I've experienced in my life, I didn't think that was the life that I was gonna get to live.

Ashton Kutcher

LifeLiveMyselfPeopleThinkNever

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