Lewis Mumford Quotes

Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.

Lewis Mumford

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FoodTravelSpecialLegsHumanNeed

When the gig ain't there, you still got to pay the rent. I learned that a long time ago.

Jimmy Scott

TimeLongYouLong TimeRentPay

I used to draw and illustrate, but I don't do that anymore because I just like to write. I like to leave the illustrations to actual professional illustrators.

Meg Cabot

ProfessionalWriteLeaveUsedJust

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

John Irving

LifeLoveLiveCourageEnoughYou

Unionization, as opposed to communism, presupposes the relation of employment; it is based upon the wage system and it recognizes fully and unreservedly the institution of private property and the right to investment profit.

John L. Lewis

CommunismProfitInvestmentRight

I always wanted to know what I'd face next, even though that was maybe a bit detrimental to spontaneity. Structuring my life and avoiding chaos was more important.

Angela Merkel

LifeChaosFaceMy LifeKnowMore

The scars of others should teach us caution.

St. Jerome

ScarsTeachOthersCautionUs

Less is more.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

ArchitectureMoreLess Is MoreLess

I'm sure I've all but lost friends by maintaining that, despite their love for it, I always saw Stanley Kramer's 'It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World' as more of an exercise in anti-comedy than humor.

Dick Cavett

LoveHumorWorldFriendsExercise

We're not perfect. We're a work in progress. But man, America has gotten a lot of things right.

Donna Edwards

WorkProgressManNot PerfectRight

I try to do romantic gestures all the time.

Armie Hammer

TimeRomanticTryGestures

The trade deficit is the capital surplus and don't ever think of having a capital surplus as being a bad thing for our country.

Arthur Laffer

ThinkBadCountryTradeBeingOur

The one thing they didn't tell you at Iowa is how hard it is to make a living writing fiction and poetry.

Peter Heller

PoetryWritingYouLivingHardTell

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