Lewis Mumford Quotes

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Lewis Mumford

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: sociologist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 19, 1895 - January 26, 1990

Topics

PowerArtCultureCreativityCity

We're never going to have a perfect candidate unless Jesus Christ is on the ballot.

Jerry Falwell, Jr.

PerfectJesus ChristNeverGoing

Film, as far as I'm concerned, is my area of artistic endeavor, so I never think of a movie that gets released as being all done-it's just when they took it away from you.

John Dykstra

ThinkYouNeverEndeavorFilmJust

It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.

Robert Morgan

ExperienceLanguageYouCreateGo

Humor is a way to deal with stresses. It is a way to cope.

John Ross Bowie

HumorWayDealCopeStresses

Today my passion is still black and white. Today if I have an array of cameras in front of me the one I would reach for that I would feel most comfortable with would be a 4 X 5 View camera. I was once working in a sort of soft light situation.

John Sexton

PassionTodayBlack And WhiteLight

My principal commitment is playing the piano. But I always loved words.

Stephen Hough

CommitmentWordsLovedPrincipal

Peter Chelsom and Edgar Wright are totally different directors and worlds apart, but both really accomplished directors who are certain of how they want to make a film.

Rosamund Pike

WantFilmDifferentWhoAccomplished

Marriage, like love, is an aspiration. It's a process.

Ruby Dee

LoveMarriageLove IsProcessLike

My life would have been different without Paul Stanley or Ace Frehley. They would have to be the greatest on my list as an influence to my life at 11 years old.

Mike McCready

LifeInfluenceMy LifeOldWithout

I believe that 'The Artist' is the kind of movie you see and you don't forget. I know it's going to stay with me.

Judy Blume

MeBelieveYouArtistKnowForget

For me, there's nothing more valuable as an actor, or better way to learn, than getting to perform in front of a live audience, no matter where you are. Whether it's on Broadway, in Florida, or doing a tour.

Jonathan Groff

LiveMeBetterLearnDoingYou

I used to play drums when I was a kid, play the trombone.

Dolph Lundgren

PlayKidUsedDrumsTrombone

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