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The thing always happens that you really believe in;
and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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Freedom is from within.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Less is only more where more is no good.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
A doctor can bury his mistakes
but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Nature is my manifestation of God.
I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The truth is more important than the facts.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Tip the world over on its side and
everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work,
and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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 Wright
No house should ever be on a hill or on anything.
It should be of the hill. Belonging to it.
Hill and house should live together
each the happier for the other.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
An idea is salvation by imagination.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Study nature, love nature,
stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
- 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
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 Wright
Give me the luxuries of life
and I will willingly do without the necessities.
- 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
No stream rises higher than its source.
Whatever 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.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons
out of the hands of fools.
Let's start with typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
New York City is a great monument
to the power of money and greed...
a race for rent.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
I believe totally in a Capitalist System,
I only wish that someone would try it.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Regard it as just as desirable to build
a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The present is the ever moving shadow
that divides yesterday from tomorrow.
In that lies hope.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
"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 Wright
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students,
and turns them into prunes.
- 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
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
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
If it keeps up, man will atrophy
all his limbs but the push-button finger.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood.
Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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 Wright
Lack of culture means what it has always meant:
ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Get the habit of analysis -
analysis will in time enable synthesis
to become your habit of mind.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
A free America... 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
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
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
Space is the breath of art.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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 Wright
The space within becomes the reality of the building.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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 Wright
All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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 Wright
Simplicity and repose are 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 Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga
and the civilization that wore it.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use
and a finer sense of comfort,
expressed in organic simplicity.
- 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
I do not wish to treat friendships daintily,
but with roughest courage.
When they are real, they are
not glass threads or frost-work,
but the solidest thing we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -
nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror
which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Getting old is a fascination thing.
The older you get, the older you want to get.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
- Albert Einstein
A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend,
one human soul whom we can trust utterly,
who knows the best and worst of us,
and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
- Charles Kingsley
Old friends pass away, new friends appear.
It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives.
The important thing is to make it meaningful:
a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The most important thing a father
can do for his children
is to love their mother.
- Henry Ward Beecher
My coat and I live comfortably together.
It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere,
has moulded itself on my deformities,
and is complacent to all my movements,
and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm.
Old coats and old friends are the same thing.
- Victor Hugo
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