Famous Quotes

"It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces."

Rem Koolhaas on Age

More quotes about Age

• "Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."

  Mark Twain on Age

• "Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."

  Henry Ford on Age

• "Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been."

  Mark Twain on Age

• "True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country."

  Kurt Vonnegut on Age

• "A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."

  Robert Frost on Age

More quotes by Rem Koolhaas

• "Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things."

• "Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture."

• "People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming."

• "Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning."

• "The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models."