Quotes of: Wright Keyword

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

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.

Richard Feynman

Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?

Richard Feynman

It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is ... If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.

Richard Feynman

I have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That's their mistake, not my failing.

Richard Feynman

If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.

Richard Feynman

Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.

Richard Feynman