Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
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Helen Keller
Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.
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Shannon L. Alder
The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people...
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Randy Pausch
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Seneca
Well, if it can be thought, it can be done, a problem can be overcome,
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E.a. Bucchianeri
More Quotes By Steven Holl
Anyone who has become entranced by the sound of water drops in the darkness of a ruin can attest to the extraordinary capacity of the ear to carve a volume into the void of darkness. The space traced by the ear becomes a cavity sculpted...
For me, the excitement in architecture revolves around the idea and the phenomenon of the experience of that idea. Residences offer almost immediate gratification. You can shape space, light, and materials to a degree that you sometimes can't in larger projects.
Frank Lloyd Wright made houses right up until the end. I think that's important because it gives you a direct connection to all the basic aspects of architecture - the spatial energy of the place, the construction, the materials, the site, the detail.
Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser.
I think architecture, to be really intense and fulfilling, doesn't have to be large.
