« All Insular Quotes
·
Maya Lin's Page
Insular Quotes by Maya Lin
1 Insular quote by Maya Lin
More Quotes by Maya Lin
Maya Lin has 67 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we…
-
The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think…
-
My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.
-
Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.
-
You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love…
-
Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.
-
I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives.…
-
I like to think of my work as creating a private conversation with each person, no matter how public each work is…
-
I saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial not as an object placed into the earth but as a cut in the earth that…
-
If we forget what used to be, then we’ve lost an ability to really be sensitive to our surroundings.
-
I though about what death is, what a loss is. A sharp pain that lessens with time, but can never quite heal…
-
I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into…
See all 67 quotes by Maya Lin »
More Insular Quotes
Popular Insular quotes from across the collection:
-
Acting is a really insular thing.
— Robert Carlyle
-
International friendly games are not worth the lives of the silk worms who perish to make the pennants. They do not even…
— Danny Baker
-
I think actors are at the mercy of the opportunities presented to them. So you kind of have to wait for them…
— Dwight Yoakam
-
An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.
— Benjamin Disraeli
-
The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.
— Goldwin Smith
-
I’m aware of the- the fact that people elsewhere in the world think differently from us. I can sort of see us,…
— Edmund Morris
-
When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular…
— Maya Lin
-
For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of…
— Herman Melville
-
Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and…
— Richard Ford
-
The English have a scornful insular way Of calling the French light.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
-
Et Tu, Babe' was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer's life was solitary and insular, and I was happy…
— Mark Leyner
-
When you live in America, it's kind of insular - the news coverage that you get - unless you're really smart about…
— Kim Raver
See all Insular Quotes »
Browse Maya Lin Quotes by Category