A J.J. Graves Quotes

Perhaps it is a good thing that we don't live long enough to realize how redundant things seem :)

You can like people and still betray them, if it was for a cause you believed in passionately enough. You have to betray other people rather than betray yourself--if that's what it comes to.

The day I met you is the day by which all others will be measured. — Levi Ian Bryson

Religious fanaticism is the most dangerous form of insanity.

Sometimes you have to do wrong to do right.

To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience to a central human system of thought.

The thing is, you can't ever really know how rotten someone will turn out to be.

You don't want captains in the army who know too much or think too much.

I love, therefore I am.

How quickly a moment sinks into the past.

But you are a different sort of girl. Not at all what I expected you to be. And this is a different sort of time. And so I am hopeful for all the things you may yet find.

And besides, I couldn't stay at the party. It was too dangerous. I nearly died.""From what?""Boredom.

A perfect poem is impossible. Once it has been written the world would end.

There's no money in poetry but then there's no poetry in money either.

What a man sows that shall he and his relations reap.

I'm safer with the Tailor and Pretty Will and every thief and cutthroat in the bend than I am with Miss Josephine Montfort of Gramecy Park.

I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.

I taught at Princeton for 39 years, and the school of architecture on the campus is the worst building on the campus.

Instead of using the machine as a metaphor for architecture, as Le Corbusier did, I use the human body. I want the public to know that it's them I'm designing for.

The oldest book I have is a treatise on architecture from the 17th century.

I'm working on a school of architecture in China. It's rare that an architect gets to design a school of architecture, and here I get to do it. I'm so pleased that they asked me.

You can never draw enough or read enough - reading about architecture, in other words.

It's mystifying to me why the House leadership will not allow a straight up-or-down vote on a pay raise. I vote against every pay raise because taxpayers deserve better.

I vote my conscience first and my constituents next, regardless of the direction of our leadership.

What's great about our leadership is they welcome other ideas.

What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

Good design to me is both appearance and functionality together. It's the experience that makes it good design.

In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good also often feels good.

I believe well-designed places and objects can actually improve healing, while poor design can inhibit it.

It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design, and I've devoted much of my career to this.

When I design a building, I'm making sure you and I can get to the front door, there's enough of a threshold for entry, and that the rooms are in a logical sequence.

Let's make it simple: Government control means uniformity, regulation, fees, inspection, and yes, compliance.

If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.