Ze Frank Quotes
The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.
Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because the regret is stronger than gratitude.
We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
There are only two things to remember. Number one...Don't Stop, and number two...Keep Going!
The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life.
A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.
What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't even happened yet.
Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.
You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.
Power will be maintained by the groovy guy or gal who gets the most media coverage for his sleaze. Naturally, his friends in various businesses will do okay, too.
We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.
No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.
Your best work is your expression of yourself. Now, you may not be the greatest at it, but when you do it, you're the only expert.
Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived.
Simplicity and Repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.
Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.
You buy a Ferrari when you want to be somebody. You buy a Lamborghini when you are somebody.
Republican is fine, if your a millionaire. Democrats is fair, if all you own is what you wear. Neither of them's really right, cause neither of them care.
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.
See, ya are what ya are in this world. That's either one of two things: Either you're somebody, or you ain't nobody.
If you don't know the guy on the other side of the world, love him anyway because he's just like you. He has the same dreams, the same hopes and fears. It's one world, pal. We're all neighbors.
A lot of guys have better genes but if you work hard and consistently, you can outperform them.
It gets harder the more you know. Because the more you find out the uglier everything seems.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
