Quotes of: Wright-brothers Keyword

Everything I do tries to do the same thing, which is to express things that are hard to express, hidden things.

Jim Woodring

What is a sophisticate? He is a man who thinks he can swim better than he can and sometimes he drowns.

Oscar Hammerstein II

I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say.

Oscar Niemeyer

It is not possible to be intellectually honest and believe in gods. And it is not possible to believe in gods and be a true scientist.

Peter Atkins

I don't expect to get a standing ovation from businessmen when I call for higher wages.

Peter Bofinger

The uncontrolled increase of the euro rate vis-a-vis the dollar threatens employment growth in the euro area.

Peter Bofinger

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them.

Phyllis Bottome

It is very a dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.

Phyllis Bottome

Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it.

Paul Fussell

If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces.

Paul Fussell

The taste of people with large bank accounts tends not to be on the cutting edge.

Paul Goldberger

Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.

Philip Johnson

I always think of buildings in their settings, but so do other architects.

Philip Johnson

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

Philip Johnson

The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.

P. J. O'Rourke

We didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents.

Paul Prudhomme

Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Randolph Bourne

To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast

Ruskin Bond

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.  

Roger Babson

The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.

Robert Conquest

Physics isn't the most important thing. Love is.

Richard Feynman