Quotes of: Japanese-architecture Keyword

As far as I have been able to understand, the Japanese seem to keep things close to the vest. Friendly but remote and polite to the point of being invisible. It is in the music, literature, film and art that the Japanese really seem to express themse...

Henry Rollins

To live a life of gratitude is to open our eyes to the countless ways in which we are supported by the world around us.

Naikan: Gratitude, Grace, and the Japanese Art of Self-Reflection

People with large book collections are almost always diligent learners.

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing

My family was in Singapore when the Japanese War started. We were in Singapore at the time of Pearl Harbor, and by the beginning of 1942, the Japanese invasion of Burma and Singapore had started.

Tom Stoppard

I love big shrimp, like Japanese botan shrimp and the meaty ones from Santa Barbara, Calif. In classic Japanese cooking, shrimp like these would be dropped into a broth or boiled as served with sushi. But I think boiling dilutes their great flavor, a...

Nobu Matsuhisa

I know just enough Japanese to get by if I get lost and greet an audience properly, just from having a lot of Japanese friends and being there over the years.

Janis Ian

Japanese soldier: We know you out there, Yank! Sergeant Keck: Tojo eats shit! Japanese soldier: No, Roosevelt eats-a shit!

The Thin Red Line

I dreamed of having a Gibson. I had a cheap Kent - you know, a Japanese guitar - and then a Kanora, a Japanese guitar. I borrowed a friend's Harmony for years. To have a Gibson was really, really my dream as a kid.

Alex Lifeson

Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be exclud...

Adolf Loos

I'd been to Stourhead and was inspired by the perfect parity between architecture and art; in fact, the architecture is the art. I wrote a piece called 'Not Sculpture Park,' because most of these things become car parks for bought-in sculpture. The a...

Charles Jencks

I've always been interested in an architecture of resistance - architecture that has some power over the way we live. Working under adversarial conditions could be seen as a plus because you're offering alternatives. Still, there are situations that ...

Thom Mayne

The medievalist has the capacity, and the desire, to harmonize. He believes the planets sing in harmony; why cannot technology also sing?

Angels in the Architecture: A Protestant Vision for Middle Earth

Jarenlang kwam ik bij het boodschappen doen langs een huis dat weliswaar een van de lelijkste gebouwen was dat ik ooit heb gezien, maar me ook meer over architectuur heeft geleerd dan menig meesterwerk.

The Architecture of Happiness

We owe it to the fields that our houses will not be the inferiors of the virgin land they have replaced. We owe it to the worms and the trees that the building we cover them with will stand as promises of the highest and most intelligent kinds of hap...

The Architecture of Happiness

Stay More' is synonymous with 'Status Quo' in fact, there are people who believe, or who like to believe, that the name of the town was intended as an entreaty, beseeching the past to remain present.

The Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks

If you just have a single problem to solve, then fine, go ahead and use a neural network. But if you want to do science and understand how to choose architectures, or how to go to a new problem, you have to understand what different architectures can...

Marvin Minsky

Today, when so much seems to conspire to reduce life and feeling to the most deprived and demeaning bottom line, it is more important than ever that we receive that extra dimension of dignity or delight and the elevated sense of self that the art of ...

On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change

If you don't have a whole lot of unsatisfied people, the economy stops dead, doesn't it?

A Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance

To live, a man needs food, water, and a sharp mind.

Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II

The secret to making yourself stronger is to absorb the strength of the people around you—energy begets energy.

My Life in Japanese Art and Gardens: From Entrepreneur to Connoisseur

I’m very headstrong. Once I’ve caught fire, there’s no dousing the flames—all engines full speed ahead.

My Life in Japanese Art and Gardens: From Entrepreneur to Connoisseur