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!

Jeff Dungan

Paul will provide landscape architecture and we'll do civil architecture. We'll help with layout and all of the things he needs for construction.

John Chambers

Our line of business structure has served us very well in the past, when customer segments and product requirements were very distinct. Today, the differences have blurred between these customer segments and Cisco is in a unique position to provide the industry's broadest family of products united under a consistent architecture designed to help our customers improve productivity and profitability.

Vint Cerf

Some of us feel NAT boxes are sort of an abomination because they really do mess about with the basic protocol architecture of the Internet.

Thom Mayne

Somehow, architecture alters the way we think about the world and the way we behave. Any serious architecture, as a litmus test, has to be that.

Sandy Wilson

Our target is to deliver demonstrable evidence to our customer that in-hub electric-drive is mature enough to meet the FRES requirement and that the hybrid power architecture can be successfully integrated with an open standards electronic architecture. Further, this is an excellent opportunity for the customer to evaluate the transformational benefits of a hybrid-electric drive that offers track-like performance at wheeled vehicle costs, which has the capability to quickly balance or shift power to mission systems that may have different requirements based on mission profile. This optimizes performance for fuel efficiency, and removes traditional armored fighting-vehicle drive line constraints, which will significantly reduce the whole-life cost of ownership.

Dennis Mann

Overall, maybe 40 African-Americans become licensed in any given year. The numbers of African-American women (who number 145 nationally) are bound to continue the most dramatic growth because women now represent half of the student body in architecture schools.

George Fraser

Our architecture is set up so that you can stream any media through any transport, from any protocol to any device with full security built in.

Joseph Kosinski

I went to school for engineering, I studied jazz. So I always had this kind of creative side and technical side, and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them, so I went to architecture school in New York.

Jane Harman

It is appropriate to insist on an overall strategy for space architecture and to face tough decisions, ... Boeing management readily admits that mistakes were made on this program. But those mistakes are now corrected and I remain hopeful that a well-managed program will ultimately move forward.