Time Quotes

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.

~ Charles Dudley Warner

A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.

~ Robert M. Hutchins

It's been a great adventure, everything I hoped for. But it's time to go home. I miss my family. I miss the Earth.

~ John Phillips

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

~ David Allan Coe

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

~ Frank Gehry

The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it.

~ David Chipperfield

Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.

~ Richard Meier

Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.

~ Louis Kahn

It is good to learn from the ancients. I'm a bit of an ancient myself. They had a lot of time to think about architecture and landscape.

~ I. M. Pei

Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male.

~ Zaha Hadid

Quebec City is the most European of any city in North America; they speak French all the time. There is a part of town called Old Quebec which is really like being in France. The architecture is just gorgeous, food, shopping. I'd say Quebec City is the most beautiful city in North America I've seen.

~ Sebastian Bach

Just as it takes time for a speck of fish spawn to develop into a fully grown fish, so, too, we need time for everything that develops and crystallizes in the world of ideas. Architecture demands more of this time than other creative work.

~ Alvar Aalto

I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes.

~ Zaha Hadid

In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.

~ Delia Ephron

Architecture has a strong link with the movies in terms of time progression, sequencing, framing, all of that.

~ Christian De Portzamparc

Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art.

~ Thom Mayne

Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.

~ Zaha Hadid

All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right angles that have dominated the building art from time immemorial.

~ Martin Filler

Tel Aviv is new, built on the sand dunes north of Jaffa in the 1890s, about the same time Miami was founded. The cities bear a resemblance in size, site, climate, and architecture, which ranges from the bland to the fancifully bland.

~ P. J. O'rourke

If I want to make people moved or cry in a film, I figure out what the room looks like, what the people are wearing, what time of day it is, what the light is, how to photograph it, where to put the camera. It involves optics and costume design and set design and architecture.

~ Sydney Pollack

What makes architecture extraordinary is that you're looking at the building, but your peripheral vision is also seeing how it fits within a space. And it's seeing more than one part of the building at one time.

~ Sydney Pollack

The idea was that you could grow a system like the Internet one network at a time and then interconnect them. In some sense, the most important thing was the invention of the architecture protocols that enabled the Internet.

~ Vint Cerf

Itjtawy was ancient Egypt's capital for over four hundred years, at a period of time called the Middle Kingdom about four thousand years ago. The site is located in the Faiyum of Egypt, and the site is really important because in the Middle Kingdom there was this great renaissance for ancient Egyptian art, architecture and religion.

~ Sarah Parcak

The architecture for 'Paladin' - given that it's at least three books, with the possibility of more - turned out to be bigger than anything I've ever created, with multiple levels of reality, interlocking mysteries and a terabyte of time frame.

~ Mark Frost

By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years more until Postmodernism was widely accepted and made classical motifs permissible in high-style building design for the first time in decades.

~ Martin Filler

I cannot imagine myself fitting into the existing curriculum. I am too self-willed for that and have had my own very definite ideas for a long time, very different from the existing ways, as to how architecture is to be taught.

~ Walter Gropius

For a long time, nobody had figured out Information Architecture, so we all just made stuff up.

~ Jeffrey Zeldman

I want to abolish time, especially in the contemplation of architecture.

~ Piet Mondrian

I have realised how exciting and easy it is to be a time traveller by looking at paintings and films and architecture and playing music or listening to it. I don't think you necessarily have to live in the present all the time.

~ Jools Holland

But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean.

~ Michael Tilson Thomas

At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world.

~ Ben Nicholson

Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking.

~ Moshe Safdie

You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did you know that Shanghai is building nine satellite towns, each designed to mimic the architecture and culture of a different country?

~ Patricia Marx

But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long.

~ Stephen Sprouse

I would like to attend college in the future when I have time. I have always been interested in architecture, so perhaps I would pursue a degree in that or business.

~ James Maslow

There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time.

~ James Henry Breasted

I didn't know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I don't even think that I knew the word for a long time. My dad funneled me into engineering because it was his background.

~ Antoine Predock

Some people think architecture is about the genius sketch I don't. Great architecture is a collaboration among a lot of people over a long period of time.

~ Joshua Prince-Ramus

When I was 18, I lived in Greenwich Village, New York, for nine months. At that time, I wanted to change the world, not through architecture, but through painting. I lived the artist's life, mingling with poets and writers, and working as a waiter. I was intrigued by the aliveness of the city.

~ Christian De Portzamparc

My mother took me to Venice one time and showed me all the houses where famous composers used to live. It gave me a fascination for music and the city, but also for architecture. It was a valuable lesson.

~ Ben Van Berkel