Facade Quotations

The concept of reason itself appears as an artificial attempt to separate intellectual powers from the frustrations, emotions, and accidents which cause events; the concept of reason is viewed as facade to prevent change.

It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.

I've always wanted to be a brooding, deep, dark artist, but I can never keep that facade going for more than 15 minutes.

Surprisingly, the Eisenhower Memorial design contains almost none of the known Gehry-box of tricks. His giant etched chain-link curtain, first applied in 1979 to hide an ungracious parking garage at Santa Monica Place, is resurrected for Eisenhower to screen the equally graceless facade of the Department of Education.

I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade

Even though photographers are only shooting the outside, beauty is more about who you are as a person - the life you lead - not your facade.

Until they do the facade and the parking lot, they won't get a penny of the city's money.

hate contains truth. beauty is a facade.

People want to know whether a place is a credible first-world city. What they found in New Orleans was that underneath the gloss and facade of a first-world tourist attraction was a third-world reality. It will take a lot of work to erase that view.

I did see Mickey hit one that almost cleared the roof in right field, ... There's a facade hanging down, and he hit one one night, and it bounced off near the facade. And according to legend, no fair ball has ever been hit out of Yankee Stadium.

I am thrilled that we are here to celebrate the groundbreaking of the Planet Hollywood Towers by Westgate. Westgate Resorts is one of the largest and most successful vacation ownership companies in the world, and this incredible building will dramatically increase guest traffic, room count and the overall Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino experience. I could not be more pleased to be working with David Siegel, a pioneer and visionary in the tourism industry. The development of this plot of land, coupled with the complete redesign of our facade and casino, and the agreement with the shopping mall on enhanced entrances, including access to the Planet Hollywood Towers by Westgate, has created a seamless and completely integrated resort complex. I would like to thank David Edelstein and Boulevard Invests for working diligently with us on integrating our collective properties.

He was very honored. I told him to look up there (the facade of Lambeau Field) and picture his name with the other numbers. He knew how special this was.

We agreed we will work with the county to come up with a facade for the facility that answers their concerns.

It's somehow symbolic of Hollywood that Tara was just a facade, with no rooms inside.

We'll just put a facade on. We'll put the people in the facilities, but we're not even making sure the trainers that train the officers are getting trained.

The steel facade was in 1975, so it's been up for 30 years, and behind it is the original concrete from the original construction from 1919 to 1924.

The structural engineer looked at it and said that the facade is just very dangerous.

Sometimes that mantle is hard to adjust to wearing but we are at a stage that we are comfortable with it and we recognize how we are perceived and how the real core individual that each one of us has apart from the facade that the public believes that we are.

Right now we have a facade program that helps with $10,000 for smaller projects. The big projects can take advantage of the tax increment funding but we have nothing for those in between.

You pass the old L.A. County jail, which is surprisingly beautiful. It's got a handsome stone facade and stately columns. The new L.A. County jail - called The Twin Towers - isn't beautiful at all; it's a stucco panopticon the color of sick flesh.

These people are hiding behind what they feel they are good at. Because that's the facade that you build, you feel good about something in your life and that's the thing you put out as your best foot forward.

Underneath that facade, I'm a terrified little sissy, just like everybody else. But I never let it show.

Symbolism erects a facade of respectability to hide the indecency of dreams.

The truth has not so much set us free as it has ripped away a carefully constructed facade, leaving us naked to begin again.

The dilemmas of interaction: how to decide on the facade we present to the world despite what's going on inside us.

Behind every glorious facade there is always hidden something ugly.

Men’s greatest weakness is their facade of strength, and women’s greatest strength is their facade of weakness.

The weakness of men is the facade of strength; the strength of women is the facade of weakness.

Justice and the facade of a temple are seen best from the outside.

A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide.