The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
Quote by Frank Lloyd Wright
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The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
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Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
- An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
- The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
- God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
- Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
- 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.
- The truth is more important than the facts.
- New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
- A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
- Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
- Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
Best Quotes
- In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.
- I'm prepared to spend the rest of my life playing clubs, if that means I'm playing music that I believe in.
- Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.
- As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
- Every speaker has a mouth An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.
- My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.
- A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
- Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
- I intend to live forever. So far, so good.
- God will never tell us to do something that gratifies the flesh.