Zaha Hadid Quotes

I will always have two regrets. I don't have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East.

Zaha Hadid

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: architect
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: October 31, 1950 - March 31, 2016

Topics

WorkDoneWillLondonMoreMiddle

The essence of parenthood is to make children think that they are the most handsome, intelligent, brilliant person in the world.

Maurice Saatchi

ChildrenWorldThinkHandsomePerson

My passion is writing, but it is also a fight because I still see home as a woman's duty.

Angeles Mastretta

HomePassionWomanFightWriting

My father was a country music singer and a motion picture actor, Tex Ritter, and I sort of had a normal upbringing, except dad would come down in full regalia with the boots and the guns and the hats, and the horse would eat with us. But other than that, it was pretty normal.

John Ritter

FatherMusicPictureHorseBoots

When I heard Monk in person in 1955, he was playing with a quartet in a small club. The place was full of musicians, but there was no public at all.

Steve Lacy

SmallMusiciansPlacePersonClub

I get so happy when I write a joke. It's a very satisfying, liberating feeling.

Rita Rudner

HappyFeelingWriteJokeGetVery

The great thing about my two lives is I love them both. I'm very ambitious and nothing gets in the way of me practising and concentrating on winning golf tournaments. But then I come home and get back to normality.

Rory McIlroy

LoveHomeGreatMeWinningGolf

Politicians are fond of criticizing others.

Martin Winterkorn

OthersPoliticiansFondCriticizing

Women writers are often conflated with their narrators - as if we can't consciously construct fictional worlds from the ground up and can only write diary entries.

Miranda July

WomenDiaryWriteGroundUpOnly

Playing Ann Landers is like channeling my mother. That combination of love and the enjoyment of life is my mother. And you find that combination in Ann Landers' letters.

Mimi Kennedy

LifeLoveMotherYouFindLetters

It's a good rule of thumb, it seems to me: if you're not allowed to see where something comes from, don't put it in your mouth.

Jonathan Safran Foer

GoodMeYouMouthSeeSomething

I always wondered why there weren't any films about Cesar Chavez. There are movies about other civil rights leaders in this country, but why not Chavez?

Diego Luna

CountryMoviesWhyCivil Rights

As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties.

Arthur Henderson

PeaceStepEqualityFirst StepFirst

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