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New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
It's really remarkable when you think about what we don't like about government, we, the people created. So if we created it, we can also fix it.
— Jennifer Pahlka
I have a weakness for buttons. I'm always collecting ornate and nicely decorated ones.
— Rila Fukushima
... it seems we may best be able to inhabit a place where we are not faced with the additional challenge of having to be there. (p.23)
— Alain De Botton
An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
I take issue with many people's description of people being "Illegal" Immigrants. There aren't any illegal Human Beings as far as I'm concerned.
— Dennis Kucinich
A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
No matter what an architect may be at home, he becomes a monumentalist when he comes to Washington.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest is not a quiet, consuming passion.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
We are in an unschooled world and everyone becomes our tutor.
— Lorraine Gokul
The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
Clutter in its highest and most organized form is called collecting.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
Only a Californian would have observed that it is becoming increasingly difficult to tell the real fake from the fake fake.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
Every generation tailors history to its taste.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
Bollywood is a strange world.
— Cyrus Broacha
If the British are a nation of shopkeepers, Americans are a nation of shoppers.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
Real estate is the closest thing to the proverbial pot of gold.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
The most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.
— G.K. Chesterton
