I truly believe that at times like this, silence is not golden. It is yellow.
The dreams of the 1960s began to disappear in the 1970s. The economy collapsed, and so did the optimism of the Metabolists.
I think of architecture as a piece of clothing to wrap around human beings
Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.
I am trying to counter the fixity of architectures, their stolidity, with elements that give an ineffable immaterial quality.
We have to base architecture on the environment.
I would like to use architecture to create bonds between people who live in cities, and even use it to recover the communities that used to exist in every single city.
To me, All About Steve movie is sweet-natured and sweet-hearted, and I can't get enough sweet-hearted movies. I want to be inspired right now. I think things are pretty tough in the world. And people at the première were loving it - I mean, loving it! So I'm so sorry to hear people saying that it is the worst movie of 2009. I don't buy it at all.
No. I don't want to need anybody. I want someone to need me. . . I want someone to need me.
The islands above the falls are covered with foliage as beautiful as can be seen anywhere. Viewed from the mass of rock which overhangs the fall, the scenery was the loveliest I had seen.
The common people are but ill judges of a man's merits; they are slaves to fame, and their eyes are dazzled with the pomp of titles and large retinue. No wonder, then, that they bestow their honors on those who least deserve them.