C.D. Wright Quotes
Tell a man that there are 400 billion stars and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint and he has to touch it.
The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to.
I argued that I didn't have any of the attributes to pose for cheesecake. I said I would have to make good on my acting ability, which was the only attribute I could offer.
I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.
Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.
Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.
In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.
The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. This is its task and its promise.
Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.
The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing.
The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.
I had some eyeglasses. I was walking down the street when suddenly the prescription ran out.
If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times, does he become disoriented?
Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth
What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.
I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.
We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm.
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
It's time for greatness - not for greed. It's a time for idealism - not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.
Love is the virtue of the Heart, Sincerity is the virtue of the Mind, Decision is the virtue of the Will, Courage is the virtue of the Spirit.
The cross is the surest, truest and deepest window on the very heart and character of the living and loving God.
The outside of any building may now come inside and the inside go outside, each seems as part of the other. Continuity, plasticity, and all the new simplicity the imply have at last come home.
I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad.
When I turned two I was really anxious, because I'd doubled my age in a year. I thought, if this keeps up, by the time I'm six I'll be ninety.
I like New York because you're kind of forced to smell everybody else's funk. So it keeps you biologically attached to the world around you.
