Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Bryson

We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.

Billie Jean King

Pressure is a privilege ... it's what you do with it that matters.

Ayn Rand

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

Brion James

Wake up - time to die.

Alec Baldwin

Only one thing counts in this life - get them to sign on the line that is dotted.

Albert Einstein

There two things that are infinite, human stupidity and the universe, I don't know about the universe

Adolf Loos

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

Anne Lamott

You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into becoming yourself.

Clint Eastwood

You see, in this world, there's two kinds of people, my friend - those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig.

Charles Darwin

I am not the least afraid to die

Augustus

Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit!

Eleanor Roosevelt

America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, bad-ass speed.

Alan Cohen

Truly creative people care a little about what they have done, and a lot about what they are doing. Their driving focus is the life force that surges in them now.

Alberto Tomba

I used to have a wild night with three women until 5am., but I am getting older. In the Olympic village here, I will live it up with five women, but only until 3am.

Daniel Libeskind

We live in a time of renaissance ... cities are coming back to life, after a long neglect.

Daniel Libeskind

Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.

David Ayer

That's the world of policing. I've met some bad-ass female cops, who are very cool people.

Alicia Keys

All women are NATURALLY, bad ass!

Lester Brown

Our global civilization today is on an economic path that is environmentally unsustainable, a path that is leading us toward economic decline and eventual collapse.

Carl Sagan

I would be very ashamed of my civilization if we did not try to find out if there is life in outer space.

Carl Sagan

In the vastness of the Cosmos there must be other civilizations far older and more advanced than ours.

Carl Sagan

For all I know we may be visited by a different extraterrestrial civilization every second Tuesday, but there's no support for this appealing idea. The extraordinary claims are not supported by extraordinary evidence.

Carl Sagan

Any civilization that doesn't develop space travel dies.

Antoine Rivarol

Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism.

Bertrand Russell

As a lover of truth, the national propaganda of all the belligerent nations sickened me. As a lover of civilization, the return to barbarism appalled me.

Bertrand Russell

Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.

Bertrand Russell

Whether science-and indeed civilization in general-can long survive depends upon psychology, that is to say, it depends upon what human beings desire.