Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Rogers

My architecture tends to be legible, light and flexible. You can read it. You look at a building, and you can see how it is constructed. I put the structure outside.

M. Wolfe

Le Corbusier was the sort of relentlessly rational intellectual that only France loves wholeheartedly, the logician who flies higher and higher in ever-decreasing circles until, with one last, utterly inevitable induction, he disappears up his own fundamental aperture and emerges in the fourth dimension as a needle-thin umber bird.

Teresa Jones

Several factors are combining to drive the need for a unified architecture for accessing applications from remote locations and by diverse client types.

Charles Jencks

Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite.

Jack Stewart

Music is part of the big three. New Orleans is food, architecture and music. Everyone in New Orleans is a musician or has a relative who's a musician, whether they are professional or amateur.

Camille Strachan

New Orleans is body and soul. The soul is the people and the body is the architecture, and you can't save the one without saving the other. We need to have individual assessment of houses before they are bulldozed willy-nilly.

Deborah Marrow

New Orleans is an extraordinary city; its arts and architecture are cherished by people all over the world.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

I founded a club, which is called the Brutally Early Club. It's basically a breakfast salon for the 21st century where art meets science meets architecture meets literature.

Thom Mayne

I fought violently for the autonomy of architecture. It's a very passive, weak profession where people deliver a service. You want a blue door, you get a blue door. You want it to look neo-Spanish, you get neo-Spanish. Architecture with any authenticity represents resistance. Resistance is a good thing.

Kristy McNichol

A lot of people have wondered what I've been up to. I retired from my career after 24 years. My feeling was that it was time to play my biggest part - Myself!

Robert McKinley

Making the minimum payment ... is probably one of the biggest expenses any consumer can make, ... You can end up paying for this Christmas for years to come.

Dave Wannstedt

Leonard can make big plays; he's already shown that ... The biggest thing about this team is they have talent and experience on offense.These guys are all seniors and most of them have played for two or three years.

George Borjas

Low-skill ... illegal immigration has the biggest negative impact on the wage of low-skill workers.

Russ Diamond

Leadership controlling it all is the biggest problem we have in Harrisburg. That makes (for) very few Pennsylvanians being represented there.

Melissa Allen

Last year was huge. It's probably the biggest fundraiser we've ever done for the Family Life Center. We raised about $4,000.

Rob Ridings

Last year, we were just hoping to win games. Now, we have the mindset that we have a chance to win and we expect to win. That's one of the biggest changes our kids have made in the last year.

Damien Mason

Lee has one of the biggest hearts I've ever come across. He's an extremely generous person.

Jim Damoulakis

Many organizations have ILM initiatives or are interested in starting one because of all the publicity. But the biggest driver is that storage costs are growing at an astronomical rate, and they're being mandated to cut the storage budget.

Paul Turner

We're not dismayed in any way, we're building but it's a slow build right now.

Peter Steinbrueck

We're not building the public transportation system that we need.

Ben Howland

We're not building a program, we're following the leadership of John R. Wooden. He's the one that built this program. It will always be his program.

Abe Reichental

We're not building a future for a few years, we're building for a lifetime.

Audrey Lewis

Like any other marketing campaign, you want to build up your profile.

Chaz Bickers

Like any company that's going into negotiations, we have made plans for any possibility. That said, we can't make airplanes without our team members there to build them.

Steve Harrison

Let's be a little creative about this before we start building three- and four-story circular structures. This is Beaufort.

Stuart Butler

Let people try what they want in their states, providing it meets certain standards. It will mean diversity. It's also a way of building consensus over time of what needs to be done, something you can't do if you go nationally initially.

Claudio Reyna

Luckily, the doctor is one of the leading guys in Europe and I'm happy to be seeing him and getting the problem cleared up. Within six to eight weeks, I'll be completely back up and running and three weeks after the surgery, I should be jogging and building it up until I'm back.

James Howard Kunstler

Life in the mid-21st century is going to be about living locally. Be prepared to be good neighbors. Be prepared to find vocations that make you useful to your neighbors and to your fellow citizens.

William Price

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Karl Evanzz

Muhammad himself fostered this idea and, for years, tried to convince his family that he, Elijah of Gilead, and the 7th century prophet Muhammad were one and the same.

Shinzo Abe

My hope is that the 21st century will be the first century where there will be no violation of human rights, and to that end, Japan would like to do our outmost.

Octavio Paz

For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.

Twyla Tharp

There's the tradition of the 19th-century ballets, and the 20th century has had a difficult time with that tradition. And it's had a difficult time with many components of the Romantic imagination because of modernism.

Keith Burns

From salt-and-pepper shakers made for some nondescript little comedy from the 1940s, to important pieces from important features of today, all exist at Ellis. It's hard to imagine any important film from the last century that some item from that film is not in some way here at Ellis.

James Allen

One of the challenges that we have as we move forward in the early part of the 21st century is to understand how we can help people make the right choices to understand that they have real control of a lot of the health risks in their lives,

Stephen Kinzer

One of the most perplexing political questions of the late 20th century is how new democracies should punish deposed dictators and their associates. Victims cry for justice, but leaders of new regimes must decide to what extent it is possible, moral or prudent to pursue evildoers of the past.

Richard Rogers

You have to modernise; you have to change - you can't just be traditional for the fun of being traditional.

Richard P. Feynman

We do not know where to look, or what to look for, when something is memorized. We do not know what it means, or what change there is in the nervous system, when a fact is learned. This is a very important problem which has not been solved at all.

Robin Chase

There is a group of entrepreneurs pushing the envelope, government officials that are making significant changes despite the odds, and visionary writers, academics, and colleagues whose work confirms, amplifies, and stretches my own thinking.

Marc Benioff

You can do things in every part of the world. You can do things in every discipline. You can do large things, you can do small things. But it takes a while to figure out what you actually want to do. And it changes. As you change your interests and desires in philanthropy change, I think you have to be open to that change.

Mahesh Bhupathi

I think that tennis has been in a place for many years without any change. Davis Cup and Fed Cup has always been a very exciting platform for players because it is such an individual sport, and we get to play a team competition. We love being part of a team.

Manolo Blahnik

I think of each new season as an evolution, not a change in style.

Andrew Feinberg

We're not contradicting the view that genetic changes occur in the development of cancers, but there also are epigenetic changes and those come first.

Bob Combs

We're not contemplating any change for our competitions.

Norman Cousins

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis -- once that crisis can be recognized and understood.

Kevin Mitnick

A lot of companies are clueless, because they spend most or all of their security budget on high-tech security like fire walls and biometric authentication - which are important and needed - but then they don't train their people.

Laura Bullock

Let's put it bluntly. If rail would be profitable, private companies would be doing it already.

Michael Atmore

Let's wait and see how the two companies mesh. They can learn from each other, if they're smart.

R. Halloran

Libya has been a fairly easy place for these companies to deal with, and I think they welcome the opportunity to get back and be able to operate there again.

Richard Bernstein

Lower quality companies are dramatically overstating their growth rates by using pro forma earnings.

Mark Greenberg

Lots of companies talk about having a long-term focus. At Liberty, they really do.

Promod Haque

Lot of technology companies in India are hoping for better relationship with the US.

Alan Ackerman

Lots of money has moved to the sidelines, ... People are not comfortable with the uncertainty ahead, made up of the fact that many of the tech companies keep lowering their guidance.

Eric Chaney

Laying-off permanent workers is so difficult and costly that companies have a strong preference for temp jobs, even if it is at the expense of productivity. When labor protection has become excessive and unaffordable, as it is in France, labor market institutions must be reformed.

David Buck

Lean manufacturing is at the core of our strategy to support our growth. You have to take waste out of everything. We only want to do things that our customers are willing to pay for.

Christian Coughlin

Many of our core items are made fresh. Our chicken, eggplant and veal parmesan are all made fresh daily. Our lasagna is made fresh every day. We take great pride in making everything fresh.

Michael Sheldon

So far, we haven't seen a major increase in core inflation, all we've seen is a sharp rise in energy prices. It seems logical that higher energy prices should start to feed through to higher inflation.

Renee James

McAfee's No. 1 strength is that they have a fantastic R&D team, engineering, as well as research at the core of security: database threat management.

Tina Brown

Prince William's smiling hostility toward the press is his non-negotiable core value. I am told he is so protective of his privacy he has been known to plant false tips with friends he distrusts and watch the media to see if they play out.

Larry Eustachy

I feel real positive about things. We've got a core of players that we feel good about, and (we said) come Wednesday, we would sign some other very good players.

Drew Matus

Growth is strong. Inflation is making them a little nervous, even though they reiterate that core inflation and long-term inflation expectations are contained.

Wilf Gobert

Given that it's the deepest well ever drilled, you might describe it as a new frontier, except the frontier isn't farther out geographically; it's farther down toward the core of the earth.

Lloyd McClendon

From a manager's standpoint, losses are never easy to swallow. You take them to heart. You take them real hard, ... But am I keeping my eye on the big picture? Of course I am. And do I know that we have a core group that has the potential to be good from the start of next season to the end of next season? Of course I do. And that's exciting." ()

Robert Teeter

The President has not created any Ford constituency, unique from that of any Republican President. The one exception to this is that he does show unique strength with young voters for a Republican.

Marco Brambilla

Just doing a project because it's an opportunity won't create meaning. As an artist, I need something to communicate.

Herb Perone

Life insurance was created to be an instant estate in the event of the premature death of the breadwinner.

Lao Tzu

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Bill Bixby

Luck has created much of what I have today, but at the same time, I haven't sat still.

Mark Mahaney

Major lockups always create turbulence in shares. Usually we see a trade-off going into lockups.

Mark Mahaney

Major lockups always create turbulence in shares, ... Usually we see a trade-off going into lockups.

Jeff Greene

Let's not forget we created that ideal middle class by destroying all of our industrial competitors during World War II.

Guru Nanak

Let him exert himself to the utmost in order to increase his property in a righteous manner, and let him zealously give food to all created beings.

Paul Brewbaker

Lucky for everybody because it says something about our underlying economy.

Gene Sperling

Let's keep our economy strong, let's keep our interest rates low. That's the smart thing to do. And, if things work out better in the future, then we'll have more money for a tax cut, ... Late Edition.

Fadel Gheit

Losing the Saudi oil would immediately shock the U.S. economy to the worst level in decades,

Loesje

Let's give the individual the space to grow, instead of the economy

Tim Ryan

Many of the businesses, large and small, that were operating in New Orleans on Aug. 28 are not going to be here anymore, ... If we were to measure the New Orleans economy now, it would make everybody sick.

Marcy Kaptur

Mr. Speaker, there are plenty of signs that the United States economy is not working well. One of the signs is our national debt.

Masaki Iso

Much of the optimism about the economy has already been discounted into the shares and they're not cheap.

Phil Gramm

Mr. Chairman, please don't try to fix an economy that isn't broken, ... Don't become so frightened by success that you throw wet blankets on a fire that isn't burning.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Men do not realize how great a revenue economy is

Julie Foudy

She (Finch) is a wonderful person, and they want to see that. They want to interact with her and talk with her.

Christopher Poole

I don't hate anyone. Sometimes I wish I could interact with the community in a more normal way, though.

Rodney Brooks

The most important thing for building a robot that you can interact with socially is its visual attention system. Because what it pays attention to is what it's seeing and interacting with, and what you're understanding what it's doing.

David Mitchell

Perhaps all human interaction is about wanting and getting.

Enric Sala

A marine ecologist is a scientist who studies the many species that live underwater and how they interact with each other and with humans.

Mike Doody

Here, you have to interact with people of all kinds, make them feel comfortable. (Morgan is) conscientiousness and patient.

Claudia Rankine

You want to belong, you want to be here. In interactions with others you're constantly waiting to see that they recognize that you're a human being. That they can feel your heartbeat and you can feel theirs. And that together you will live - you will live together.

Shahid Kapoor

I used to be in my own world and keep to myself all the time, so there may have been a perception about my reserved demeanour that was misconstrued as arrogance. But when people interact with you, then they know the real you.

Paul Walker

The acquisition of Interact presents Sage with a number of significant opportunities.

Richard P. Feynman

There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn't look at all like the way you said it before. I don't know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.

Albert Schweitzer

Man has become a superman ... because he not only disposes oinnate, physical forces, but because he is in command ... olatent forces in nature and because he can put them to his service.... But the essential fact we must surely all feel in our hearts ... is that we are becoming inhuman in proportion as we become supermen.

Albert Schweitzer

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

Albert Schweitzer

The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another.

Ian Mckellen

Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.

Toshihiko Fukui

Second-quarter GDP was revised upwards, representing the well-balanced nature of the recovery in Japan's economy,

J. Taylor

Now, we're going to look at see what was the nature of the service disruption.

Edgar Allan Poe

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'

Eleanor Roosevelt

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

Mary Elizabeth Ellis

Make her laugh, make her laugh, make her laugh. After all, the strongest relationships are the ones in which you can laugh with your partner through anything.

Charlie White

As an ice dancer, we take our on-ice relationships so seriously, and that's really the way we like to go about it.

Tracy McMillan

Relationships are like the world's most intense yoga! It's a daily practice.

Randy Harrison

I don't know for Justin; he's always looking for meaning out of his relationships with people. I don't think he's as trapped into the drug thing as a lot of the others are.

Orlando Bloom

I don't like to talk about girlfriend stuff. It's not necessary. I try to keep my relationships separate from everything else.

Bidzina Ivanishvili

With respect to Euro-Atlantic integration, we have to realize that we need to normalize the relationships with our neighbors, and especially with Russia.

Jimmy Cliff

My most important relationships were with my father and grandmother.

Tracy McMillan

The thing is, relationships never work out... until they do. You learn a lot from relationships that don't work out.

Larry Ellison

Be careful about virtual relationships with artificially intelligent pieces of software.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

Basil Hume

We have really lost in our society the sense of the sacredness of life.

John Rhys-Davies

I do not want to see a society where, should I ever have any, my granddaughters have their fingernails pulled out because they are wearing nail varnish.

Chen Guangbiao

Society needs hundreds of hundreds of thousands of Chen Guangbiaos.

Sylvester Stallone

Just because society says I'm old doesn't mean I am.

Sam Kinison

Society needs a couple of vents that say what you're not supposed to say.

Abu Bakr

Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.

Yoshihiko Noda

A society of 'children first' is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.

Edward Snowden

I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things... I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under.

Jerramy Stevens

No one is going to give us anything. We haven't done anything in the past. But we've been out here taking it (respect) this year, that's for sure.

Slobodan Milosevic

More time has been wasted by taking away my right to self-defense.

David Jacobson

I feel like this is part of something big he is doing, ... Like taking over the world.

Joe Crawford

I feel like I'm getting better every game, more comfortable, just being aggressive, taking my opportunities.

Andrea Mitchell

I feel terribly guilty. I'm not used to taking off time at all.

Ed Collins

If we do use that for (the ballpark), we are taking away from ourselves, not the state.

Doug Follis

If we're there at the end of the year, that's when it will matter. Right now, we're taking it game-by-game.

Steve Smith

I have a one-track mind. I was not taking the hitch. I wanted to go for the goal.

Diane Tuller

She's only going to get better. I don't like taking her off the court.

Robert Kazinsky

There are always things you wish you could've done better, and there are always things that you wish would've turned out a different way in terms of storyline, which you're not in charge of.

Craig Venter

Traditional ways of distinguishing populations are irrelevant in terms of genetic code.

Al Pacino

Explain to me what Italian-American culture is. We've been here 100 years. Isn't Italian-American culture American culture? That's because we're so diverse, in terms of intermarriage.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

For me to think in terms of employing security seems ostentatious.

Lars Larsen

I never think in terms of gold, currency, diamonds. I'm not clever enough for that.

H. L. Mencken

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

Yossi Beilin

We have no terms for dialogue, but we do have terms for negotiations.

Joe Mathis

We are already tapped out in terms of volunteers and staff.

Willis Reed

We would still have been here if we could have come to terms with the union.

Miriam Santiago

Times have changed. It has already worn out its value,

Dick Durbin

We need to know as much as we can and as much as he will tell us about his values and beliefs,

Charlize Theron

We value some lives more than others.

Wendell Perkins

We know how to value companies. And we go where the value is.

Demi Lovato

When you treat your body like a Bentley, you value yourself and you start to look at your body differently.

Brian Tracy

Nobody values your time but YOU.

Robert Gerhardt

We thought we could get it out before May 1, but because the values for some of the neighborhoods were out of whack, we had to go back and fine-tune those.

Craig Stapleton

have the same values and the same interests.

Adelaide Clemens

I'm very analytical about the industry and I understand that there are value systems, and all sorts of things like that.

Roger McNamee

Motorola to me in some ways is a very disappointing company,

Mike Stoops

More and more we need to find ways to get them on the field. They are very athletic, and I think they can contribute.

Mike Sanford

I feel like we've improved, and we still have a long ways to go. By far, we have not arrived.

Jacob Lew

There are lots of ways to work together.

Craig Venter

We can create new ways to create clean water.

Emma Roberts

There's not a lot of original ways to get attention in the press.

Annie Leibovitz

I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures.

Ethan Zuckerman

I study the ways new media shapes people's perceptions of the world.

Phil Savage

There are other ways to get up there to get him.