Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Graves

I don't care what people call me,labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people.

John Portman

Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.

Michael Graves

I have a requirement for myself in making designations of elements. I need to have full language and I do not want the language to be only space.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Simplicity and repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

Minoru Yamasaki

So I test all the buildings that I do by asking myself whether this building was possible, could have been built 50 years ago or a hundred years ago.

Daniel Burnham

Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably will not themselves be realized.

Lawrence Halprin

One of the things I thought a lot about was how can we get the views, for instance, the main plaza, you look up to Telegraph Hill from there and therefore it would be a disaster to close that view off.

Lawrence Halprin

Because one of the benefits of getting older, I guess-there are very few benefits, really - most of them are a pain in the butt. People depend on me more; they believe in me more, they think I'm good.

Lawrence Halprin

Then I sit down, work at it, because now I have a convincing feeling about what that place wants to be, you see? And it's not just me. Me and my talent comes in taking that consensus and then making something wonderful out of it - a work of art.

Jacque Lukaszewicz

Passing gas and 'poop talk' is normal in our daily lives. It might seem gross to some, but what comes out has to be monitored for blood and how it looks.

Cal Thomas

Squeezing our money out of politicians is more difficult than squeezing blood from a turnip. To paraphrase an Oscar Hammerstein love song, they never let it go.

Cortney Martin

Spring Break is such an important time to donate. Kids are out of school, parents are busy and there's not as much time to go and donate. That's why the Blood Center will have (several donation sites) throughout the month of March.

Dr. Bogaev

That clot was the equivalent of a volcanic eruption. There was an abrupt cessation of blood flow, and her heart stopped working.

Jonathan Brown

Our first intent was to squeeze the blood out of our local turnip. That was the general game plan for everybody. But it's come to the point where we've squeezed that turnip as much as we can.

Roger Scruton

Our gardens are symbols of home rather than seduction. Young people with fire in their blood are seldom found in them. The garden is the scene of middle age, of the slow passage from sexual excitement to domestic routine.

Lynn Stedd

Right now the blood supply is very fragile and just one serious trauma could wipe-out the supply in any one type. Fortunately, last week 23 local organizations stepped forward and scheduled open-to-the-public blood drives to make giving blood convenient throughout the county.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Ring out false pride in blood and place,/ The civic slander and the spite.

Jeffrey Edelman

Retailing is retailing, and Kmart was not where it should have been. From that point of view, I think that new blood has got to be a benefit.

Jim Hunter

Part of the magic of NASCAR and NASCAR racing is the accessibility.

Bill Crawford

True 'magic' is simply the ability to transcend what seems to be and, thus, transform one's experience. Maybe we could all use a little 'Harry Potter' in our lives.

Carrie Fisher

One of the great things to pretend is that you're not only alright, you're in great shape. Now to have that come true - I've actually gone on stage depressed and that's worked its magic on me, 'cause if I can convince you that I'm alright, then maybe I can convince me.

Howard Davidowitz

The advertisers are gone. It's a question of getting them back. But getting every one of them back is priced into the stock. The stock is priced as if everything she does is magical and perfect.

Basil Fawlty

I was up at five, you know, we do have staff problems, I'm so sorry,it's all done by magic.

Owen Miller

I think Ole Miss has worlds of potential. They've won there before, and it hasn't been too long ago. There's going to be a lot of work, but there's no magic formula. You've got to be productive every day and work at recruiting every day.

Larry Coyer

I don't have a magic answer. If you play cornerback in this league, they're going to get you once in a while.

Doug Henning

I have a policy of not saying anything negative about anything another magician does.

M. Wolfe

For whatever reason, $199 tends to be a magical price point.

Thomas a Kempis

Now is the time to be doing, now is the time to be stirring, now is the time to amend myself.

Robert Redford

I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by actors and actresses that tried to keep themselves young.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

Aaron Swartz

Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse.

Stephen Covey

Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.

Friedrich Schiller

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

Bill Cosby

We've got too many young girls, who don't know how to parent, turning themselves into parents.

Buck Showalter

These things have a way of working themselves out over a 162-game season.

Robert MacIntosh

They wanted to give themselves some flexibility, which they didn't have with that language.

Rob Babcock

But those things usually work themselves out during training camp.