Quotes of: Frankness Keyword

In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good also often feels good.

Michael Graves

Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.

Arthur Erickson

I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music (Debussy, Vaughn Williams).

Gary Lucas

The artistic taste of the Catholic priests is appalling and I am most anxious to have a Catholic church in which everything is genuine and good, and not tawdry and ostentatious.

Giles Gilbert Scott

Everyone goes through the ups and downs of living - fretting about the future, worrying about what happened. Music teaches us how to be in the moment.

David Sanborn

I call myself a traditionalist, although I have fought against tradition all my life.

Philip Johnson

Life is too full of distractions nowadays. When I was a kid we had a little Emerson radio and that was it. We were more dedicated. We didn't have a choice.

Stan Getz

You can grow up with literally nothing and you don't suffer if you know you're loved and valued.

Esperanza Spalding

There is an assumption that if you're young and pretty, you will get all these opportunities that are way beyond your musical foundation.

Esperanza Spalding

They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an immediate abortion.

Ginger Baker

Every project is an opportunity to learn, to figure out problems and challenges, to invent and reinvent.

David Rockwell

People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.

Bill Laswell

Some people think I'm a rock 'n' roll musician and some think I'm a jazz musician but, for me, there is no difference.

Georgie Fame

As of essential importance in town churches which are not at all equally necessary in the country.

George Edmund Street

If there was a fire at my house I would throw more things on it. The only thing I would take out? Myself!

Jean Nouvel

I continue to be interested in new things that seem old and old things that seem new.

Jaquelin T. Robertson

I'm not interested in placing my signature on a house but would rather it be a signature of the place it's located.

Jaquelin T. Robertson

Employ oneself upon trifling professional matters which others could do.

James Wyatt

What a ball from Frank. Frank and I go back years. He used to do that when I was at Ajax.

Dennis Bergkamp

Critics are entitled to have an opinion, but how can they judge how comfortable a building is? No critic is smart enough to judge how a building will perform over time.

Helmut Jahn

Frank Alexander: Food alright? Alex: Great sir, great! Frank Alexander: Try the wine!

A Clockwork Orange