Martin Filler Quotes

The financial benefits of prefabrication have never been as large as its advocates predicted, for although some labor costs can be reduced by machine manufacturing, on-site assembly of any building still depends to some extent on the handwork of skilled craftsmen.

Martin Filler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

BuildingFinancialLaborNeverBeen

I have very old-fashioned tastes.

Jerry Hall

Old-FashionedVeryTastes

No one was jumping up and saying, 'Yeah, let me give you money.' I had never held a camera in my hand - a home video camera, nothing. I had not directed.

Joey Lauren Adams

HomeMoneyMeSayingCameraYou

If we remind ourselves of the fact that every fifth American today rightly points and perhaps also with a certain degree of pride to his German ancestry or her German ancestry, we can safely say that we, indeed, share common roots.

Angela Merkel

TodayRootsPrideAmericanSayHer

The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.

Stanislav Grof

FearDeathWorldWayIndividual

Everything that we have gone through, are going through, and will go through is there in Shakespeare. It is all of human life.

Simon Callow

LifeGoWillHumanEverythingGone

Our part of Poland was under Russian occupation from 1939-1941.

Roald Hoffmann

PolandOurPartOccupationRussian

GMOs play a central role in meeting the challenge of providing affordable and nutritious food to consumers all over the world.

Mike Pompeo

FoodChallengeWorldMeetingPlay

Borders are liminal spaces. Anyone worthy of the title of 'writer' is a border writer. We all are border people.

Luis Alberto Urrea

PeopleBorderBordersWorthyWriter

One thing that struck me in my study of history is how people are excluded. I don't mean just racial minorities or women. Pretty much all poor people who don't have documents are excluded from history and its records. People who were illiterate usually didn't leave any primary documents.

Min Jin Lee

WomenHistoryPeopleMePoorMean

But it is one of these sort of mythologies about America and its intellectual history, that the right embraced this thing called social Darwinism, when it never did so.

Jonah Goldberg

HistoryAmericaIntellectualNever

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Winston Churchill

LifeGoodYouEnemiesUpSomething

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

Peter Marshall

LifeStrengthStrongDiamondsGrow

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