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• It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts. ---Adlai Stevenson
• In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. ---Bill Cosby
• The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair. ---Douglas Adams
• If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we'd be too simple to understand it. ---Emerson Pugh
• Freedom is from within ---Frank Lloyd Wright
• The truth is more important than the facts ---Frank Lloyd Wright
• There is nothing more uncommon than common sense ---Frank Lloyd Wright
• The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind ---Frank Lloyd Wright
• An idea is salvation by imagination ---Frank Lloyd Wright
• The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes ---Frank Lloyd Wright
• Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism . . . but only through the direct responsibility of the individual ---Frank Lloyd Wright
• Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities ---Frank Lloyd Wright
• If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger ---Frank Lloyd Wright
• I believe in God, only I spell it Nature ---Frank Lloyd Wright
• Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you ---Frank Lloyd Wright
• Don't eat it. It will kill you before your time. Avoid it ---Frank Lloyd Wright
• Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change ---Frank Lloyd Wright
• I feel coming on a strange disease -- humility ---Frank Lloyd Wright
• The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization ---Frank Lloyd Wright
• Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comforat, expressed in organic simplicity. ---Frank Lloyd Wright
• Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun ---Frank Lloyd Wright
• Mechanization best serves mediocrity ---Frank Lloyd Wright
• 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 hehad learned of life when the buildings were built. ---Frank Lloyd Wright
• Classicism is a mask and does not reflect transition. How can such a static expression allow interpretation of human life as we know it? A fire house should not resemble a French Chateau, a bank a Greek temple and a university a Gothic Cathedral. All of the ism are imposition on life itself by way of previous education. ---Frank Lloyd Wright
• 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 Wright
• 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 Wright
• Less is only more where more is no good ---Frank Lloyd Wright
• Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art ---Frank Lloyd Wright
• Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now. ---Frank Lloyd Wright
• The room within is the great fact about the building ---Frank Lloyd Wright
• Form follows function-that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union ---Frank Lloyd Wright
• Every great architect is -- necessarily -- a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age ---Frank Lloyd Wright
• An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site ---Frank Lloyd Wright
• Consider everything in the nature of a hanging fixture a weakness, and naked radiators an abomination ---Frank Lloyd Wright
• Space. The continual becoming: invisible fountain from which all rhythms flow and to which they must pass. Beyond time or infinity ---Frank Lloyd Wright
• The space within becomes the reality of the building ---Frank Lloyd Wright
• Space is the breath of art ---Frank Lloyd Wright
• True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building, or a park. At its best it is an emphasis of structure, a realization in graceful terms of the nature of that which is ornamented ---Frank Lloyd Wright
• A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines ---Frank Lloyd Wright
• Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic ---Frank Lloyd Wright
• A free America, democratic in the sense that our forefathers intended it to be, means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it. ---Frank Lloyd Wright
• Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy. ---Frank Lloyd Wright
• Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. ---Frank Lloyd Wright
• We should have a system of economics that is structure, that is organic tools. We do not have it. We are all hanging by our eyebrows from skyhooks economically, just as we are architecturally ---Frank Lloyd Wright
• A vital difference between the professional man and a man of business is that money making to the professional man should, by virtue of his assumption, be incidental; to the business man it is primary. Money has its limitations; while it may buy quantity, there is something beyond it and that is quality ---Frank Lloyd Wright
• I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it ---Frank Lloyd Wright
• 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 Wright
• Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes ---Frank Lloyd Wright
• I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture. ---Frank Lloyd Wright
• Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves ---Frank Lloyd Wright
• Tip the world on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles ---Frank Lloyd Wright
• I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldnt learn something from him. ---Galileo Galilei
• Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your tempter or your self-confidence. ---in "Quotable Quotes", Readers Digest, April 1960
• A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk I have a work station. ---ioannisss
• If I didn't get bruises, I didn't have fun. ---Jessica 27
• Hills mean nothing to me. ---John Sinibaldi
• "Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is." ---Margaret Mitchell
• The bike inscribes disconcerting things in you. Your seat has a memory that shouldn't be confused with ordinary memory. The body retains memories of episodes of effort. Sometimes the most difficult, most arduous memories are lost. What's left are unexpected memories of unexpected moments at the time were not felt to be exceptional but which the muscles have chosen to remember for reasons of their own. ---Need for the Bike by: Paul Fournel, Allan Stoe
• I think; therefore I am. ---Rene Descartes
• I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant. ---Robert McCloskey
• A good traveler has no well-defined plan and is not intent on arriving. ---Unknown
• There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island... and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life. ---Walt Disney
• You Can Dream, Design and Create the most Wonderful place in the World, but it takes people to make that dream a reality. ---Walt Disney
• Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. ---William Feather

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