William Krisel quotes

“A house is more than just a shelter; that it is a way of improving your way of life.”
-- William Krisel

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“One by one, I could find a house that somebody had restored properly, and then another one, and now it's like a virus. Everybody in Palm Springs wants to do it.”
-- William Krisel

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“At one point in my practice, of the 10 largest home builders in the United States, seven of the 10 were my clients.”
-- William Krisel

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“I have had built, from my designs, over 40,000 living units, and that's more than any other architect that I know of.”
-- William Krisel

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“She frowned."You're not very friendly." I let out a short laugh."What?I'm not friendly to a ghost who floats into my house and starts touching me?Well,excuse my rudeness but this is a little disturbing.”

“When the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have seemed ironical as well as almost unbearable.”

Source : Alice Morse Earle (2012). “Home Life in Colonial Days”, p.1, Courier Corporation

“I have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made, from the bones of the body into shelter.”

“The ultimate goal of Bhakti is to get Krishna and we get it by taking shelter of the holy name.”

“Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.”

“He’d protect me and shelter me forever. But I was beginning to realize that being sheltered came at a price.”

“To justify God's ways to man.”

“War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.”

“The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done.”

“Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.”

Source : "The Heart of Things".