Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Rogers

Clearly, private developers can have different aims, and architects can only play a certain role. You can have some pretty big battles on public commissions, too. The key is to have a good client.

Richard Rogers

When I started out, nearly every architect I knew was working in public practice; that's where the radical thinking was done. But, there's always a danger of looking back as our fathers did and saying, 'Things were better then.'

Richard Rogers

Architects design buildings; that's what we do, so we have to go with the flow; and, even though I'm still an old Leftie, global capitalism does have its good side. It's broken down barriers - the Berlin Wall, the Soviet Union - it's raised a lot of people up economically, and for architects, it has meant that we can work around the world.

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.

Rick Perlstein

Anticommunism in its modern form was invented by liberals like Harry Truman, the architect of the national security state. The proportion of the voting population that was not anticommunist in 1961 was miniscule.

Armand Assante

Like I said earlier, the movie is metaphorical for the world. Today we're seeing so many instances of monumental duplicity, ... I think that's the task, in a way, to show what an architect of duplicity this character is, in his simplicity, forthrightness and morality. It's a strange and wonderful study of how far a horrible lie can be taken in terms of a character.

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.

Mike McCue

Let's say you go to a friend's wedding, or Thanksgiving, or Halloween. It'd be great the next day to see what went on with your friends' Thanksgiving weekend, or all the costumes they wore on Halloween, and be able to look back and see what they wore the year before, and the year before that.

David Mellem

Lower taxes are great, but if its going to cost you money, it's not worth it. If a stock hits your sell range after 3 months, do you really want to risk 9 more months of fluctuation to get a lower tax rate?

Frank Armstrong

Lower costs will give you higher net returns. I think cost is critically important.

Kumi Naidoo

Leaders have dashed hopes and squandered opportunities, and empty promises cost lives.

Mike Kelly

Last year we reached 355 fifth-graders, at a cost of $6 a student, ... We did this with the help and sponsorship of SFA, Nacogdoches ISD, Coca-Cola, Nacogdoches Safe and Drug Free and others. People stepped up throughout the year, and we received very positive feedback. It was a great adventure, and we will do it again.

David Hudson

Many, many farmers have made significant inroads into their cost structure and we have seen a very significant surge in diversification.

Joe Baca

Many of us are alarmed at the skyrocketing cost of medical care, including patients, who are the consumers. However, medical malpractice is not the reason for these increasing costs.

Kurt Barnard

Sears is on the way back to health. They're doing a good job (of cost cutting) and they are offering customers a good, recognizable value and customers are responding.

Stephanie Marquis

So far, we have 382 claims. We're estimating the cost to the state has been about $64,000.

Alfonso Felder

Of all cities, San Francisco should be able to find a way to keep these theaters.

Tom Lehrer

San Francisco is a city of twenty-something millionaire white kids named Doug.

Gordon Sinclair

Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.

Susan Danly

Here is someone who sits in Maine and works here in Portland, but this show takes you to San Francisco and takes you to Rome through imagination and architecture.

Willie McCovey

I've always had a connection here in the city from the first day I arrived. I stayed in the city. I made San Francisco my home. I was seen in the offseason at a lot of different functions, and people liked that.

Danny Meyer

I run in London, in San Francisco - any city that's got a waterfront or park.

Robin Williams

Look at us -- we're a San Francisco wedding cake.

Adam Timmerman

When you hear that date, it just can't help but jog your memory. You hear 9/11, it just makes you think of what happened. Plus, I think we played San Francisco the first game after 9/11.

Steve Frank

Don't let Leno and his San Francisco friends ruin our children.

William Roth

let Americans keep more of what they earn, and use their money as they see fit.

James Hong

Sentiment is weak right now and we're seeing a lot of short-term retail money selling.

Adrienne Worthy

One of the wonderful things for us is that people who give money also tend to give time.

Kevin Krewell

One is as a money scheme and the other is to produce useful technology.

Bob Hall

Obviously, you've got to have some money for a state-wide race, but the point is to have it not be an auction.

Mike Blum

No one really makes money on shorts. Probably one in 10,000, at the most.

Guy Ritchie

On Lock, Stock, we didn't know where the money for shooting the next day was coming from.

Cindy Hall

One time we saved up enough money for a saw.

Michael Arcuri

One thing we know is that he can raise money whenever he wants to, so he can still run if he wants to.

Randy Cretors

If we don't play San Benito, I'd probably get fired.

Robert Scoble

I happen to be fortunate: I live in San Francisco, and I can afford a $600 phone. Or two of them!

Rosalynn Carter

San Francisco is one of my favorite cities in the world.

Sergei Lavrov

Sanctions are a sign of irritation; they are not the instrument of serious policies.

Sergei Lavrov

We have no desire to continue a sanctions war, trading blows.

Yuri Kochiyama

I lived in San Pedro, California, which is, you know, on the west side of California, and it's where many, many Japanese lived.

Gary Hart

This is one Hart that you will not leave in San Francisco.

Christian Bale

I put on weight like Santa Claus. I just get this belly that kind of extends out.

Neil Peart

I sang the hymns, and I read the Bible stories, but I was always perplexed, like, 'Really? Jesus wants you for a sunbeam? For a what?'

Maureen O'Hara

One time I was taking a little too long in the toilet and Mr. Zanuck sent for me. And he said, what are you doing that takes so long?

Mark Johnson

She sent a laser in there. You look for breaks, you look for bounces, and we got one on that first goal.

Leonard Underwood

If they got trouble, they would be sent here and I would put them to work. But they weren't here very often.

Bill Cosby

Most of us learn to read by looking at each word in a sentence - one at a time.

Colleen Hoover

When I sat down and wrote the first paragraph, I was like, 'Oh, I can go with this.' I didn't do an outline. I didn't do anything. I just wrote sentence by sentence, not knowing where the story was going.

Aimee Bender

I find I can write for two lines, and then I have nothing else to say. For me, the only way to find something comes through the sentence level and sticking with the sentences that give a subtle feeling that there's something more to say.

Pete Wentz

When I read a review, 90% of the review is about my lifestyle, and the last two sentences are about the record.

Carl Jung

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

David Hume

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

Benjamin Franklin

One Mend-fault is worth two Findfaults, but one Findfault is better than two Makefaults

Melissa Etheridge

No, I didn't worry. But it was worth it.

Susan Smith

If we have enough people, it will be worth it.

Source Unknown

When the well's dry, they know the worth of water.

Chris Fecera

We actually renovated it so we could show about $20,000 worth of merchandise here.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.

E. F. Schumacher

Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which only fifty years ago one could do without difficulty, cannot get done any more. The richer a society, the more impossible it become to do worthwhile things without immediate payoff.

E. F. Schumacher

The richer a society, the more impossible it becomes to do worthwhile things without immediate pay-off.

Denis Waitley

You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.