I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
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Marilyn Monroe
I know I'm not going to be in your head all the time. But once you know me, I'll be forever in your heart.Â
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Crystal Woods
I can arrogantly brag that the doors I choose in life open wide and grant me unobstructed passage. But the widest doors tend to lead to the worst places.
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Craig D. Lounsbrough
Best of stories are created at Airports, Dinner Tables and Showers!
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Jasleen Kaur Gumber
Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of the worst things that have ever happened to us.
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
More Quotes By Thom Mayne
So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive attitude towards the public. I myself am very much inclined to take this position.
But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.
Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing in a repetitive way.
Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required.
I believe that artistic activities change people. You do effect change. I see architecture as a political, social and cultural act - that is its primary role.
