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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

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No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.

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Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.

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I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.

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Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

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Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

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'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

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A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.

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God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

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The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

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A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.

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All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

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The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.

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A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

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I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought was important with my life, so I headed to California and didn't look back.

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Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.

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I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.

Oswald Chambers

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This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

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It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more.

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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

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Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

Frank Lloyd

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Orson Welles

No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.

Frank Lloyd

Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.

Frank Lloyd

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

Frank Lloyd

The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.

Frank Lloyd

The space within becomes the reality of the building.

Frank Lloyd

I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.

Frank Lloyd

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

Oswald Chambers

Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.

Frank Lloyd

Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

Frank Lloyd

'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

Frank Lloyd

Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.

Frank Lloyd

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.

Frank Lloyd

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

Frank Lloyd

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

Frank Lloyd

A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.

Frank Lloyd

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

Frank Lloyd

The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.

Frank Lloyd

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

Frank Lloyd

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Frank Lloyd

I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought was important with my life, so I headed to California and didn't look back.

Patrick Dempsey

Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.

Patrick Dempsey

In Los Angeles, as I gained and lost celebrity, then gained it again, I often found myself wondering why I, out of thousands like me, had become famous.

Patrick Dempsey

Sometimes in television, if there are storylines that are oft-told, people can be hypercritical of them.

Patrick Dempsey

With competition there is always ego and hubris... competition gets in the way of work.

Patrick Dempsey

A wedding is like a funeral, but with musicians.

Patrick Dempsey

I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.

Oswald Chambers

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

Hermann Hesse

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

Hermann Hesse

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Hermann Hesse

But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.

Hermann Hesse

For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.

Hermann Hesse

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

Oswald Chambers

When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.

Hermann Hesse

You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.

Oswald Chambers

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

Hermann Hesse

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.