Building Quote by Whit Stillman Download Open image “Our roots are clinging, we shouldn't knock down so many old 'buildings.'” — Whit Stillman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Building Clinging Old buildings Roots
It's all very brilliant to build bridges and buildings, but long after we're gone, it will be the natural things in this world which… — Rupert Friend Copy Share Image
We try to make buildings last long and be resilient but also be not so idiosyncratic that they can't change. — Elizabeth Diller Copy Share Image
I want my buildings to take root and look as if they've always been there. It isn't about pastiche or adapting what's already there.… — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
The foundations of civilization are no stronger and no more enduring than the corporate integrity of the homes on which they rest. If the… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
I wanted to preserve the old buildings, not to destroy them and build something new. — Farah Diba Copy Share Image
We should not ignore or isolate our roots, no matter where we stay. — Ram Nath Kovind Copy Share Image
Modern buildings have become memorials to power and capital. More and more, they're isolated from people. — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
I think it's really good and helpful to have the people you most admire in some other discipline than what you work in. It's… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
For me, the present is a golden era. That's the greatest golden era. Right now. I just like pining for lost times. — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
I decided the moment I graduated from college that I would never wear blue jeans again. And I have never worn blue jeans again. — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
I think Austin is read more now than Charles Dickens, and Dickens was much more popular in his day. She endures because of her… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
I find it really disturbing to be watching a lot of the medium that I'm trying to work in. I prefer to be doing… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
I think a lot of ["Cosmopolitans"] is marked by [Jerome David] Salinger. Salinger wouldn't allow his works to be adapted for film after his… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
I explained to Amazon that I don't like outlining or projecting what something's going to be. I like to allow a story to arise as I'm writing scripts. I find it horrible when I try to think of something for the plot without really being on the ground and seeing where it goes. I was really resistant to do the… — Whit Stillman Copy Share
I would say on the other side of the equation that there were really some massive sales and massive enthusiasm for some films that… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
It becomes a lot better for the actors when we're 'shooting, shooting, shooting,' instead of waiting around in a trailer for something to happen. — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
Find someone hypersocial and crazy and try not to follow them to their doom, but to make friends with their nicer friends. — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
It's terrible to write what are essentially comedies for people with no sense of humor. Everyone thinks they have a sense of humor, but… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
I've had no money, absolutely, from my family. They paid for a good education - or schools that purported to be a good education… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans. — Mortimer Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
Peace is an ongoing process. It begins with the first step and it does not end. We, all of us alive today, are the… — David Krieger Copy Share Image
I've done so many other projects where you're in a room with a reader and you're acting your lines out: 'We have to get out of here! Any minute the building will explode!' And then the reader says: "Yes...we have to get... out of here." So it's not easy to be in the moment in that kind of situation. Reading… — Jim Cummings Copy Share
Absolutely, you can improve and become better at toughness. It's a talent, but it can be acquired, too. I think of it like building… — Jim Harbaugh Copy Share Image
T]he church is not a place. It's not a building. It's not a preaching point. It's not a spiritual service provider. It's a people… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
I'd like to play Ian Paisley, actually. I'd need building up, though he's very frail now. — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress Copy Share Image
As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So… — Edward Witten Copy Share Image