People Quotes - Page 78

In a strange way, architecture is really an unfinished thing, because even though the building is finished, it takes on a new life. It becomes part of a new dynamic: how people will occupy it, use it, think about it.

What I do shows people what kind of person I am.

We like to think of our champions and idols as superheroes who were born different from us. We don’t like to think of them as relatively ordinary people who made themselves extraordinary.

Would that the Roman people had but one neck!

If I could do anything about the way people behave towards each other, I would, but since I can't, I'll stick to animals.

We're hip to the fact that Superman never saved no black people. You got that?

To use the power of the bison, I had to perform that part of my vision for the people to see.

If people understood what life insurance does, we wouldn't need salesmen to sell it. People would come knocking on the door. But they don't understand.

People not only gain understanding through reflection, they evaluate and alter their own thinking.

Tough times go away, tough people do not.

I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out.

Racism will disappear when it's no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it'll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.

When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space.

The collapse of Enron was devastating to tens of thousands of people and shook the public's confidence in corporate America.

Fashion is something you attach to yourself, put on, and through that interaction the meaning of it is born. Without the wearing of it, it has no meaning, unlike a piece of art. It is fashion because people want to buy it now, because they want to wear it now, today. Fashion is only the right now.

I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are

I was talking about no nukes, the farm crisis. People said that wasn't stuff that a state auditor was supposed to be talking about. Maybe they were right.

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.

They maintain that only a dictatorship - their dictatorship, of course - can create the will of the people, while our answer to this is: No dictatorship can have any other aim but that of self-perpetuation, and it can beget only slavery in the people tolerating it; freedom can be created only by freedom, that is, by a universal rebellion on the part of the people and free organization of the toiling masses from the bottom up.

All the freaky people make the beauty of the world.

People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.

I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.

It's my experience that the fluidity of sexuality with younger people is more accepted.

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.

The Minnesota spirit of compassion and help for people in need has moved countless Minnesotans to step forward to provide relief for the survivors of Hurricane Katrina.