Arab quotes and words of wisdom

"A house is a machine for living in."
Le Corbusier


"And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, And as silently steal away."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


"ARCHITECT, n. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money."
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce


"Architecture in general is frozen music."
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling


"Architecture is frozen music."
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe


"Architecture is the art of how to waste space."
Philip Johnson


"Every man is the architect of his own fortune. Est unusquisque faber ipsae suae fortunae"
Appius Claudius


"Every man paddle his own canoe."
Frederick Marryat


"Every one is the architect of his own fortune."
Mathurin Regnier


"Form follows function."
Louis Henri Sullivan


"I do not find that the age or country makes the least difference; no, nor the language the actors spoke, nor the religion which they professed, whether Arab in the desert or Frenchman in the Academy. I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion."
Douglas Jerrold


"Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference."
Libbie Fudim


"No house should ever be on any hill or on anything. It should be of the hill, belonging to it, so hill and house could live together each the happier for the other."
Frank Lloyd Wright


"Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within."
Ralph Waldo Emerson


"The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works."
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra


"When we build, let us think that we build for ever."
John Ruskin


"Women are the real architects of society."
Harriet Beecher Stowe


Interesting Quotes

Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.Walter Anderson

The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.Marshall McLuhan - Canadian author, educator, & philosopher (1911 - 1980)