Martin Filler Quotes

The skyscraper style first advocated by Louis Sullivan - a tower of strongly vertical character with clear definitions among base, shaft, and crown - has remained remarkably consistent throughout the history of this building type.

Martin Filler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 17, 1948

Topics

CharacterHistoryStyleBuilding

There's obviously a correlation between an economically empowered woman and the investments she makes. That leads to her social and moral conscience for bettering her community.

Andrea Jung

CommunityWomanMoralSheConscience

There are lots of great actresses who are great because they'll do anything.

Andie MacDowell

GreatAnythingBecauseWhoLots

I had always owned them to be the Word of God... the careful reading of the Acts afforded me a practical picture of the early church; which made me feel deeply the contrast with its actual present state; though still, as ever beloved by God.

John Nelson Darby

GodMeReadingPresentChurchEarly

The major public goals in my life are intellectual goals. There are various philosophical things that I want to work on and work out.

Robert Nozick

LifeWorkGoalsMy LifeIntellectual

The first time I dedicated myself to resurrecting and preserving somebody's memories was with my great-uncle. I knew he was going to die in the next few years, and I had grown up listening to all his stories about people who had been trapped or chased by the Nazis. I began to record them.

Tom Reiss

MemoriesTimeMyselfPeopleDieUp

It is everyone's prerogative to retire. But it's like giving up on life as far as I'm concerned.

Roger Taylor

LifeGivingGiving UpUpRetireFar

I knew Townes Van Zandt a little bit.

Rodney Crowell

LittleKnewVanLittle BitBit

Too many in Washington display a ruling class mentality, and congressional term limits would go a long way towards restoring the citizen-legislator ethos of the Founding Fathers.

Ron DeSantis

LimitsLongGoWashingtonClassWay

I think that's what makes my music different from other artists in my lane is that I write every word that's on my album, and every word comes from a real experience or a real feeling that I've either experienced or felt. And I'm very particular about that, and I take a lot of pride in it, so you know if I say something on a song, I mean it.

Mike Posner

MusicExperienceSongThinkPride

You make a deal. You figure out how much sin you can live with.

Martin Scorsese

LiveYouSinOutDealMuch

As an artist, you keep learning. You draw out different parts of you.

Luis Fonsi

LearningYouArtistOutDifferent

There's a lot of power in saying no to big things that you don't want to do in order to say yes to the kind of things that really inspire you.

Dee Rees

PowerSayingInspireYouWantKind

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