Rem Koolhaas Quotes

Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to the notion of a star.

Rem Koolhaas

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: architect
  • Nationality: dutch
  • Birth: November 17, 1944

Topics

ArchitectureModestyAlwaysRare

When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there.

Joe Strummer

YourselfBlameLearnSomeoneYou

Faced with ostracization at school and confinement at home, I turned to karaoke.

Jenny Zhang

HomeSchoolKaraokeConfinement

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

Maya Angelou

EducationMotherIgnoranceSchoolGo

'Pacific Rim,' for me, was a chance to touch on those old Toho monster movies. 'Godzilla' and 'Rodan'... and then 'Ultraman' and 'Robotech' and all those kinds of things.

John Knoll

MeChanceMoviesTouchOldMonster

I have a cow's valve in my heart.

Maurice Strong

HeartCowValve

I can't moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl.

Robert Plant

GreatTimeGreat TimeGoldfishBowl

The emergence of the Atomic Age brought the previously inchoate and 'free-floating' anxiety of many people into sharp focus.

Rollo May

AgeFocusPeopleAnxietySharpMany

English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.

Mary Augusta Ward

EducationWomenTodayKnowledgeRise

Almost everything has been stolen from us by the patriarchy. Our creativity has been stolen, our creative energies, our religion. I want it back.

Mary Daly

CreativityReligionCreativeBackUs

I'm so uncoordinated, I can't really do that much, so my specialty is standing in one spot or holding on to something, like an exploding rocket or a jetski.

Johnny Knoxville

Holding OnStandingRocketSomething

I don't believe in pressure. The pressure is not being prepared for what you want to do.

Colin Kaepernick

BelievePressureYouWantBeing

We all need to find the simplest and easiest ways to help stop global warming.

Suzy Shuster

HelpFindStopGlobal WarmingNeed

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