Quotes of: Japanese-architecture Keyword

I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it.

Peter Eisenman

I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.

Rafael Moneo

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

Samuel Butler

The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.

Stephen Gardiner

I think architecture, to be really intense and fulfilling, doesn't have to be large.

Steven Holl

All architecture has a public nature, I believe, so I would like to make a public space.

Tadao Ando

I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.

Vera Wang

I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines.

William Devane

I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.

Zaha Hadid

The only way to enjoy architecture is not just to look at it but to move around it and through it.

Kenneth Bayes

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.

Elvis Costello

In the city fields Contemplating cherry-trees... Strangers are like friends

Japanese Haiku

Such a little child To send to be a priestling... Icy poverty

Japanese Haiku

Of course the Japanese and Peruvian fish are different, but it's the same Pacific Ocean. They are different, but I know fish.

Nobu Matsuhisa

I shall ask to see whether they want me in dress clothes or in Japanese.

Sessue Hayakawa

I look like I'm Chinese or Thai or Japanese - very different.

Mary Kom

I love Japanese and Thai food, especially seafood, and eat out with my wife two or three times a week.

Pierre Dukan

Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.

Ingrid Newkirk

The Vietnamese see their history as an unending series of struggles of resistance to aggression, by the Chinese, the Mongols, the Japanese, the French, and now the Americans.

Noam Chomsky

The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors.

Charles C. Mann

Since my Japanese isn't very good, I had to have an interpreter to communicate with most of the crew.

John Foster