New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
Quote by Frank Lloyd Wright
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New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
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Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
- TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
- Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
- Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.
- Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
- Less is only more where more is no good.
- Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
- A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
- Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
- Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
- The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
Best Quotes
- The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
- If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
- Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They're the best girls in the world - they're loyal and fun, but when they get mad, they'll try to kill you.
- What has made America amazing has been the fact that throughout our history, throughout the more than 200 years of our history, there have been men and women of courage who stood up and decided it was more important to look out for the future of their children and their grandchildren than their own political futures.
- As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.
- Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
- This is our commitment to users and the people who use our service, is that Facebook's a free service. It's free now. It will always be free. We make money through having advertisements and things like that.
- The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.
- Facts matter. Science matters. Reason matters. Mitt Romney has shown an inability to respect any of the three. President Barack Obama not only respects them, he relies on them. He is an overwhelming and unquestioned choice to continue as president.
- Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.