C. F. Lloyd Quotes

There is nothing more foolish or self-defeating than for a Christian to say that he is not interested in doctrines.

A building is not just a place to be but a way to be.

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

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.

Every time I step in between those lines, I'm in the zone. If you get between me and the ball, you might get smashed a couple times. Things happen, plays happen.

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.

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

The ultimate test of our spirituality is the measure of our amazement at the grace of God.

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.

I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have.

Conviction is not repentance; conviction leads to repentance. But you can be convicted without repentance.

If the people really knew [the truth] the war would be stopped tomorrow. But of course they don't know and can't know.

More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.

I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.

What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.

The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.

I have a need to be all on fire, for I have mountains of ice about me to melt.

I have not proved that the universe is, in fact, a digital computer and that it's capable of performing universal computation, but it's plausible that it is.

All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what computation consists of.

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

The Christian is a man who can be certain about the ultimate even when he is most uncertain about the immediate.

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.

I knew Jack Kennedy; Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy.

Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God.

The space within becomes the reality of the building.

If you're going to have centralization, why not have it!

In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the 8 hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous over eating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die!

I roll with Ladies just as tropic as the chronic in my pocket Cop it, Crush it, Roll it, Spark it, and mix it in with the chocolate

Pay no attention to haters, attention is what they crave.

Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships.

Success is only another form of failure if we forget what our priorities should be.

One of the things that I've been doing recently in my scientific research is to ask this question: Is the universe actually capable of performing things like digital computations?

I will never fit in because I was not meant to

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.

Tell me what ticks you off, and I will tell you what makes you tick.

The gospel is not something partial or piecemeal: it takes in the whole life, the whole of history, the whole world. It tells us about creation and the final judgment and everything in between.

Men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.

We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!

Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.

Perhaps the greatest gift we can offer each other is a second chance.

The gospel is meant to control and govern everything in our lives.

We are fighting Germany, Austria and drink, and as far as I can see, the greatest of these three deadly foes is drink.

I want to do a little bit of everything. I love sci-fi. I think it's more the characters that draw me towards things. I like strong women. I'm very interested in futuristic stuff, anything.

Prayer is beyond any question the highest activity of the human soul. Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God.

Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.