Quotes of: Morris Keyword

As is perhaps obvious, Morris Zapp had no great esteem for his fellow-labourers in the vineyards of literature. They seemed to him vague, fickle, irresponsible creatures, who wallowed in relativism like hippopotami in mud, with their nostrils barely ...

David Lodge

Tommy DeVito: [about Morrie's corpse] Hey Frank, let's chop him up. Frankie Carbone: All right. [starts to get out of the car] Tommy DeVito: Where you going? Where you going, you dizzy motherfucker, you? Frankie Carbone: To chop him up. Tommy DeVito:...

Goodfellas

A huge meringue with polio who drives everywhere in a beautifully restored Hillman Imp.

The Bizarre Letters of St John Morris

I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life.

Rafael Moneo

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

Arthur Erickson

Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life.

Peter Zumthor

In the '70s and '80s there was an attempt in K-12 to teach science through art or art through science. The challenge today is how do you build the ethos of art and design into the academy of science.

John Maeda

As long as artists arbitrarily assume the right to decide what is or is not art, it is logical that the public will just as arbitrarily feel that they have the right to reject it.

Leon Krier

What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.

Peter Zumthor

The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.

Ralph Adams Cram

At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.

Rafael Moneo

The rigidity of a bottle's form does not affect the fluidity of the liquid it contains.

The Architecture of Community

Like medicine (architecture) must move from the curative to the preventive.

The Square Book

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

The Sociological Imagination

Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.

Tuesdays with Morrie

It’s not contagious, you know. Death is as natural as life. It’s part of the deal we made.

Tuesdays with Morrie

when he smiles it's as if you'd just told him the first joke on earth.

Tuesdays with Morrie

Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me.

Tuesdays with Morrie

You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship

Tuesdays with Morrie

We all have same beginning (BIRTH), and we will have same ending (DEATH). So how different can we be?

Tuesdays with Morrie

I really don't even think of myself as being Jewish except when I'm in Germany.

Peter Eisenman