Martin Filler Quotes

Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal 'cursus honorum' before its practice could be undertaken.

Martin Filler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ArchitecturePracticeLastFormal

There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.

John Burroughs

ManAdviceBadEarthWillTake

My job is to generate discussion.

Matthew Heineman

JobDiscussionGenerate

I want to be with people I care about and hang out with my dogs.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

PeopleCareWantDogsOutHang

They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?

Jeanette Winterson

WorldWonderGoSayTrueThey Say

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

John Ruskin

StrengthBeautyPatienceEndurance

The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.

Shimon Peres

PoliticsProblemPovertyMoreMiddle

It's not the job of the art to accommodate me and make me more money, make me more famous and get me more girls.

Mike Posner

ArtMoneyJobMeFamousMore

I went looking for dresses and realized there was a niche I could fill in the wedding dress market.

Monique Lhuillier

DressLookingWeddingDressesNiche

As a journalist, you have to have multiple sources and verifiable science, and when you've done that and satisfied the most skeptical voice in your head, you have an obligation to ride through the streets - let people know what's going on.

Josh Fox

ScienceRidePeopleVoiceYouKnow

Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.

Joseph Epstein

FunEnvyOnlySevenDeadlySins

In primary school I was terrible. I don't think I was particularly well behaved in high school, but I started to apply myself.

Jonathan LaPaglia

MyselfSchoolHigh SchoolThinkHigh

The people at the top of the league think they need to rein me in so I don't become another Michael Jordan, somebody they aren't able to mold and shape and make their puppet.

Dennis Rodman

PeopleMeThinkBecomeTopNeed

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