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"The dynamic ideal we call democracy, gradually growing up in the human heart for two-thousand five hundred years, at least, has now every opportunity to found the natural democratic state in these United States of America by way of natural economic order and a natural, or organic, architecture."
"I could list of dozens things my fiancee does that annoys me and I'm sure he could list off hundreds of things about me but the fact is that even through all that we love each other. We love each other in spite of our flaws and despite all the things we do that should make us hate each other we still continue to fall deeper in love. Sometimes we want to hate each other but for two people who are truly in love it simply isn't possible. Not even a little but, not even at all."
"We should have a system of economics that is structure that is organic tools. We do not have it. We are all hanging by our eyebrows from skyhooks economically, just as we are architecturally."
"It is a terrific thing to get a building built that has the qualities of greatness in it."
"To me, young has no meaning. It's something you can do nothing about, nothing at all. But youth is a quality. And if you have it, you never lose it."
"We do not learn so much by our successes as we learn by failures - our own and others! Especially if we see the failures properly corrected."
"From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn't fastened down slides into Southern California."
"If the paintings are too large, cut them in half!"
"The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest."
"I know we can't have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord."
"A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration."
"We have no longer an outside and an inside as two separate things. Now the outside may come inside and the inside may and does go outside. They are of each other. Form and function thus become one in design and execution if the nature of materials and method and purpose are all in unison."
"I'll bridge these hills with graceful arches"
"Prison house for the soul"
"When anyone becomes an authority, that is the end of him as far as development is concerned."
"I voted for Stevenson as opposed to Eisenhower because I thought he would make a good president, but against my conscience because I thought that he was too good for the job."
"If you tilt the whole country sideways, Los Angeles is the place where everything loose will fall."
"They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California."
"The cultural influences in our country are like the floo floo bird. I am referring to the peculiar and especial bird who always flew backward. To keep the wind out of its eyes? No. Just because it didn't give a darn where it was going, but just had to see where it had been."
"Wherever human life is concerned, the unnatural stricture of excessive verticality cannot stand against more natural horizontality."