Peter Zumthor Quotes

Architecture to me is whole. I cannot say I only care about this 25% and the other 75% I let go... it's just I want to work the way I want to work. In my shop, you can order certain things and other things you cannot. They are not available.

Peter Zumthor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorkArchitectureMeCareYouWant

If you can walk into a set and feel the reality of it, then immediately you're not having to work to bring yourself into the character.

Jerome Flynn

WorkCharacterWalkYourselfReality

Sometimes I just want to write a really intense love scene. But I can't do that in my books for teens, or parents will complain - believe me, I've tried.

Meg Cabot

LoveParentsMeBelieveSometimes

I was never given a trial. I never went before any magistrate, nor did my parents. To this day, I do not know what the charges that were lodged against me or my deceased parents at this time.

Robert Matsui

TimeDayParentsMeKnowNever

One-day cricket is a very important part of our play. We've got a long way to go until the next World Cup and for us it's one ruthless game after another where we can play well.

Matthew Hayden

CricketWorldGameLongPlayGo

English football is different to Italy and Spain. You don't have that much time to calm down or relax because, all the time, the ball is on fire.

Alvaro Morata

TimeFireFootballRelaxCalmYou

'Quick Change' was my first real movie. It was an interesting audition process because there were no lines in the script. Bill Murray's character would say something, and Geena Davis and Randy Quaid would say something, and then it would just say, 'The cabbie speaks.' How do you audition for that?

Tony Shalhoub

ChangeCharacterProcessInteresting

The hardest part of directing is the choosing. Unlike an actor who can do a variety of work, it is a year of your life, you can't afford to get it wrong.

Tom Hooper

LifeWorkYearYouWrongActor

I think if I wasn't a musician, I would be a high-school band director or orchestra director. I like working with large groups of musicians and bringing out the dynamics and accomplishing something as a team.

Rivers Cuomo

TeamThinkMusiciansBandDirector

Political freedom is to be cherished indeed. But there is no political freedom that is not indissolubly bound to the inner personal freedom of the individuals who make up that nation: no liberty of a nation of conformists, no free nation made up of robots.

Rollo May

FreedomFreePoliticalRobotsNation

Disney's clearly in the business of doing giant tent pole movies based on properties that they own. And that's what they should be doing because they're great at doing that.

Joseph Kosinski

BusinessGreatDoingMoviesClearly

One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world.

Arthur Henderson

WorldPoliticalCooperationFirst

I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil.

Arnold J. Toynbee

EvilAdvertisingThinkI CanWould

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