Lasts Quote by Joshua Prince-Ramus Download Open image “Public libraries are the last vestige of public free space.” — Joshua Prince-Ramus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Lasts Library Public library Space
In reality, handing over public space to private developers does not guarantee that new library spaces will be comparable in size or otherwise remain… — Letitia James Copy Share Image
Libraries aren't in the real world, after all. They're places apart, sanctuaries of pure thought. In this way I can go on living on… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“That the public library is a part of the educational system should never be lost sight of in the work of establishing it, or… — John Cotton Dana Copy Share Image
Libraries are public treasuries. They're ways in which well-meaning societies leave the wealth of the past arranged A to Z so that anyone walking… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
The library is central to our free society. It is a critical element in the free exchange of information at the heart of our… — Vartan Gregorian Copy Share Image
Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that bind civilized… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
The founding of libraries was like constructing more public granaries, amassing reserves against a spiritual winter which by certain signs, in spite of myself,… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
As a big user of public libraries, I deplore the cutbacks they have had to sustain. — Jill Abramson Copy Share Image
Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
It's not so much about form versus functionality. Rather, it's about doing both and doing them a lot and doing them well-and that's how… — Joshua Prince-Ramus Copy Share Image
I always wanted to do something creative, but as much as I'm creative, it's in a really hard-core, right-brained way. For me, painting doesn't… — Joshua Prince-Ramus Copy Share Image
'Form follows function' comes with so much baggage. It's a worthless phrase because you'll never take it for what it means. — Joshua Prince-Ramus Copy Share Image
It’s time for architecture to do things again, not just represent things. — Joshua Prince-Ramus Copy Share Image
Architecture is not created by individuals. The genius sketch ... is a myth. Architecture is made by a team of committed people who work… — Joshua Prince-Ramus Copy Share Image
When I went to college, I thought I was going to become a professional musician. I was a French horn player, so I went… — Joshua Prince-Ramus Copy Share Image
Architects have created this fake separation between creation and execution. You can see it in architecture schools, where the students look down on going… — Joshua Prince-Ramus Copy Share Image
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… — Joshua Prince-Ramus Copy Share Image
Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made. — Joshua Prince-Ramus Copy Share Image
Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Five days or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last longer. — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
I remember that the bass was turned up slightly more on the mix from last week, and I thought that was good - or… — Mark Ronson Copy Share Image
During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
There were times last year when people looked at the scoreboard and thought my batting average was the temperature. — Buck Martinez Copy Share Image
This, at last, was where things were as they ought to be. Everything was in its place -- the tree, the earth underneath, the… — Jean Liedloff Copy Share Image
I was always anti-marriage. I didn't understand monogamy. I couldn't figure out how that could last. And then I met Bryn and I started… — Maria Bello Copy Share Image
We don't make glamorous movies today. Everything now is very realistic, artistic - and depressing. When is the last time you you saw a… — Edith Head Copy Share Image
We will make sure our troops have all that is necessary to complete their missions. That's why I went to the Congress last September… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Real chessplayers think about chess more or less 24 hours a day. It is a passion and a fate that one has to live… — Simen Agdestein Copy Share Image
The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
