Sam Rayburn Quotes

I like building.

Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

My job the same as carpenter. What kind of house you want to build? What kind of food you want to make? You think your ingredients, your structure. Simple.

I think I have more in common with a carpenter than you might think. We're putting things together.

I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman.

Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work.

Building a house is a lot like moviemaking. The attention to detail, the sense that you're doing something that has longevity.

I am an architect at heart. I designed every home I've ever had, plus my studio.

I am involved in the architecture of space.

I consider myself a laborer, building my career brick over brick under the sun.

I love architecture.

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

I work a little bit like a sculptor. When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about paper, it's not about forms. It's about space and material.

Luck is the residue of design.

Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.

I was good at football and cricket at school. My dad said, 'Son, be an architect,' and I came to Melbourne passionate about becoming an architect.

The rules are simple. Take your work, but never yourself, seriously. Pour in the love and whatever skill you have, and it will come out.

Then I realized that to be really good at this requires a lot of energy and concentration and skill.

Genius is patience.

My brothers were tremendous shack builders. My shacks were horrible. My brothers once built a two-story shack from the ground up that was awesome!

A builder is like a little god - somebody who does things, doesn't just draw things.

Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious.

What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.