Mario Botta Quotes

For me, architecture is not just creating a space to protect people but to make them dream as well.

Mario Botta

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: architect
  • Nationality: swiss
  • Birth: April 1, 1943

Topics

ArchitectureSpacePeopleMeDream

The act of writing... is the act of trying to understand why my opinion is what it is. And ultimately, I think that's the same experience the reader has when they pick up one of my books.

Jodi Picoult

ExperienceWritingOpinionThinkWhy

Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.

John Foster Dulles

GovernmentViolenceProtectAgainst

I've had bad jobs. Now I have a good one. I'm thankful.

Maurice Greene

GoodThankfulBadNowJobsHad

I love America - I'm not saying that I love Americans. I don't know. It just seems a bit more optimistic. I don't know - in England, if you do something successful, people hate you. Whereas in America, if you do something successful, people will pat you on the back and say, 'Hey, well done.' People are jealous and negative in England.

Andy Rourke

LoveHatePeopleSayingNegative

Who's paying the million bucks? The insurance company. We've been trying for years to get the insurance industry to say to the gun industry, We won't insure you unless you have policies that will reduce the likelihood of guns falling into the wrong hands easily.

Michael D. Barnes

GunInsuranceHandsTryingYouSay

We look for companies that are unlike anything we've ever seen before, with a bold vision to change the world and run by passionate entrepreneurs who get you jumping out of your seat.

Steve Jurvetson

ChangeVisionChange The WorldWorld

In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

FindMatterAbsenceFarWorseThan

People sometimes seem surprised because often, you know, you know, there's a lot of tortured characters in the stuff I write.

Mike White

PeopleYouKnowSometimesWrite

I had always been kind of obsessed with making a home of my own and was always drawing rooms that I wanted to live in, down to pictures on the wall and the faces that would be in the photographs, and how the couches would be situated.

Michelle Williams

HomeLiveDrawingDownWallKind

I take statements that portray untrue statements about me seriously.

DeRay Mckesson

MeSeriouslyTakeAboutUntrue

I have epiphanies all the time, because I'm always thinking. I'm a thinker. I'm always writing poetry, I'm always coming to conclusions.

Chrisette Michele

TimePoetryWritingThinkingAlways

People apparently only read mystery stories of any length. With mysteries, the longer the better, and people will read any damn thing. But the indulgent, 800-page books that were written a hundred years ago are just not going to be written anymore, and people need to get used to that.

Cormac McCarthy

PeopleBetterMysteryDamnWillGet

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