Quotes by polish authors

I don't get to sleep when I'm in New York. Really. I'm living on adrenaline. Daniel Libeskind

Living Adrenaline New Get York New York Really Sleep

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity. Daniel Libeskind

Humanity Architecture Cities Greatest Creations

And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course, needs. So, that is really the design as a whole. Daniel Libeskind

Needs Wonderful Build Design City Restoration Course Manhattan Which Century Then Really Skyline Whole Spectacular

Quality of life is not only about what you find in the shops; it's about the landscape. Donald Tusk

Life You Quality Find About Only Quality Of Life Shops Landscape

Poles must understand history but we must also overcome it if it is obstructing our contemporary goals. Donald Tusk

History Overcome Goals Our Must Poles Obstructing Contemporary Also Understand

We should believe in the strength and vitality of the values which constitute the E.U. and which neighbouring states can believe in and aspire to join. Donald Tusk

Strength Values Believe States Vitality Constitute Join Which Should Aspire

I'm plain incapable of getting angry with Angela Merkel and likewise. Donald Tusk

Angry Angela Likewise Getting Plain Incapable

If there's one country that can be trusted to understand the complexity of history, it's Israel. Donald Tusk

History Country One Country Complexity Understand Israel Trusted

Today, the most important political instrument in the hands of the opposition is the presidential veto. Donald Tusk

Today Political Important Presidential Most Instrument Opposition Hands Veto The Most Important

We like to take impossible things and actually make them happen. Elizabeth Diller

Impossible Take Like Make Happen Them Actually Things

I think idiosyncrasy is great. Elizabeth Diller

Great Think

Many tools are indispensable for my work, from a utility knife to parametric-modeling software, like Digital Project. But it's important not to confuse the tool for the content, as some designers under 30 do. Elizabeth Diller

Work Digital Important Confuse Software Tool Tools Project Some Indispensable Knife Like Content Many Utility Designers

We try to make buildings last long and be resilient but also be not so idiosyncratic that they can't change. Elizabeth Diller

Change Try Long Also Make Buildings Resilient Last

In art school, it was about feeling. In architecture school, it was about ideas. Elizabeth Diller

Art Architecture School Feeling About Ideas Art School

Architecture has been male-dominated forever, and I am a grateful beneficiary of the women's movement. Elizabeth Diller

Grateful Women Architecture Has-Been Am Been Forever Movement

My mother and father had been through the Holocaust. The family was wiped out. I grew up never knowing aunts, uncles, or grandparents. Elizabeth Diller

Family Mother Father Mother And Father Out Uncles Through Wiped Never Had Knowing Been Aunts Up Grew Holocaust Grandparents

As a kid, I imagined being an artist. Elizabeth Diller

Kid Artist Being Imagined

I can't imagine having a spouse who is not an architect. It's hard to put myself in the shoes of other couples where each partner brings totally different things from their day to the table. Elizabeth Diller

In my thesis, I made an intellectual exercise out of creating a pair of buildings that were a repeat but slightly different - dissonant things make me uncomfortable. Elizabeth Diller

Me Made Slightly Out Uncomfortable Make Exercise Buildings Were Repeat Intellectual Different Creating Pair Thesis Things

We were kind of arrogant when we started and became really humbled as we were doing architecture. It's really hard to work with budgets and deadlines and all of these collaborators and all of these voices and special interests. Elizabeth Diller

Work Architecture Arrogant Collaborators Kind Voices Budgets Deadlines Became Doing Were Really Interests Hard Special Special Interests Started Humbled

Theatre is real-time - you get that real-time audience reaction, which is fantastic. And with art pieces, people don't ever have to explain themselves. You can do something and really follow a research. With architecture, you have to be much more public. You have to build consensus. You have to work within the law. There are more complexities. Elizabeth Diller

Work Art You Theatre People Architecture Law Build Research Complexities Follow Something More Pieces Reaction Within Audience Get Which Explain Public Fantastic Themselves Much Really Ever Consensus

Being a New Yorker and someone that goes to MoMA as a patron, I want it to be good. Elizabeth Diller

Good Someone New Yorker Goes Being Want New Yorker Patron

I believe in planning logics where you have neighbourhoods, and you don't just do one building at a time. Elizabeth Diller

Time You Building Believe Just Where Planning

Each project is torturous and joyful, and it's always an inspiration. Elizabeth Diller

Project Inspiration Joyful Always Each