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Life is short, God's way of encouraging a bit of focus.
— Robert Breault
New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
Those who still believe the Brahmins should take a serious not of the changing times and start leading an awakened life.
— Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
No matter what an architect may be at home, he becomes a monumentalist when he comes to Washington.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
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
To do the will of God means to do my own most deeply hidden will. Within even the most unworthy of men there is a servant of God, asleep.
— Nikos Kazantzakis
Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
Keep your coins, I want change.
— Banksy
Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.
— 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
Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
People are more than fun than anybody.
— Dorothy Parker
An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
— 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
I don't like freeloaders; I don't like people who are negative.
— Anthony Hopkins
Every generation tailors history to its taste.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
Papa Don't Preach
— Madonna
It's not difficult to make money - it's different.
— Marshall Sylver
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
You have to think about one shot. One shot is what it's all about. A deer's gotta be taken with one shot.
— Robert De Niro
Clutter in its highest and most organized form is called collecting.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
