Lloyd Quotes

There's this huge number of desperate people.

When I see architecture that moves me, I hear music in my inner ear

Neither refuse to give help when it is needed,... nor refuse to accept it when it is offered.

Fantasy is, I believe, the great nourisher of imagination. To paraphrase Einstein on how to develop intelligence in young people: Read fairy tales. Then read more fairy tales.

Google is my rapid response research assistant. It's the Swiss Army knife of information retrieval.

We must be both rational and intellectual, both analytic and imaginative, utilizing both statistics and insight.

Imitation is always insult--not flattery.

I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

Less is more only when more is too much.

I think Miss Monroe as architecture is extremely good architecture, and she's a very natural actress, and a very good one.

He [Hitler] is a very great man. "Fuhrer" is the proper name for him, for he is a born leader, yes, and statesman.

I used to spend every morning in detention at my old school.

Of course, not everybody's willing to go out and do the experiments, but for the people who are willing to go out and do that, - if the experiments don't work, then it means it's not science.

There are considerable advantages to using many degrees of freedom to store information, stability and controllability being perhaps the most important.

What I like best about San Francisco is San Francisco.

I was in detention a lot.

Save the stonewall to build the levees.

I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.

Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.

I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.

I went to prep school, Eton and Oxford. When people hear that, they think they know you, and you think: 'No, you don't.'

San Francisco is the only city I can think of that can survive all the things you people are doing to it and still look beautiful.

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.

The journey is the treasure.

What is clear to one man may be doubtful to another.

That corporations are the creatures of the Crown must be universally admitted.

Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title. - Virginia Woolf, from Jacob's Room Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

Happiness is not the result of circumstance. It is the result of loving others.

A man with a machine may murder or enslave millions, whereas it used to take at least thousands to murder millions. And the man behind the machine has nothing on his conscience.

For four years doing that same character all the time kind of bothered me. Butit opened up a lot of doors

Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge

Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.

We boast the highest standard of living when it's only the biggest.

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.

I needed to feed my family. I read a couple of the episodes. How can you keep on doing the same thing?

New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.

The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas.

Boston: Clear out eight hundred thousand people and preserve it as a museum piece. New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.

Life is like a roller coaster. I like the ups and downs. Life is like a roller coaster with many ups and down. The faster the better. I picked a bad day to stop sniffing glue.

I would only make a movie that I believe in. If I didn't believe in it, it would be unworthy.

Demand perfection of yourself and you'll seldom attain it. Fear of making a mistake is the biggest single cause of making one. Relax - pursue excellence, not perfection.

It's funny - Frankie Valli's story and that advice that he was just getting from, you know, Christopher Walken's character, is very true for someone who's in a creative field.

You have a point," said Fronto, "and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.

We hold each other's lives in our open hands, not in clenched fists.

Love of an idea is the love of God.

Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.

If you want truth you should begin by giving it.

The loving care of Mother Earth is in many quarters replacing the former sense of obedience to the Heavenly Father.