Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Michael Graves

I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.

Minoru Yamasaki

The view outside was much more important than the exhibits.

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.

Michael Graves

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

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.

Rich Falter

We brought two freshmen up (Jeff Sinclair is the other) because we thought they could contribute right away. I could kind of see the team blending together as the season went on.

Kate Fisher

she says, blending the musical style of the 1860s with a more modern feel.

Scott Peters

She's one of the most talented players I've ever coached. Right from the get-go she's been great. She's done a great job of blending in with the seniors.

Sheila Frazier

It is a challenge, because you are constantly blending families, ... You are taking children from other families and bringing them into your home and hoping everyone can adapt.

Sheila Frazier

It is a challenge, because you are constantly blending families,

Mike Rhodin

What you'll see in Hannover is a blending of Workplace with Notes and Domino.

Ivory Phillips

There are students who really look forward to being able to see the blending of reality and theory ... meaning, making whatever you read in the textbook plain by giving everyday illustrations that you can relate to.

Cindy Fitzgerald

Our strength is individual talent. Our weakness - and it?s something we have to work on - is blending that talent into a team as strong as we can possibly be.

Dilshad Vadsaria

I think for me, the imaginary world was always exciting. I started in New York doing theatre, from having just one person in an audience to performing for a full house. I think I've always enjoyed playing different characters, blending into different environments and such.

William Brownfield

Venezuela and the U.S. are natural commercial partners, and this will not change.

Ron DeHaven

The potential for this virus to have an impact on commercial poultry production is significant. Having said that, we have been dealing with (milder) avian influenza viruses for decades ... finding it, containing it, and eradicating it.

Erwin Rode

We're in a happy situation in this country in that nonresidential property or commercial construction is set to take over from residential property construction as the main driver of fixed investment in buildings.

Erwin Rode

We're in a happy situation in this country in that non-residential property or commercial construction is set to take over from residential property construction as the main driver of fixed investment in buildings.

Li Bingbing

My first time playing a main character was in 'Seventeen Years.' It was directed by famous Sixth Generation director Zhang Yuan, but it wasn't a large commercial film.

Laura Benanti

There's a lot of pressure on Broadway. There's this feeling that the show has to be a commercial success and the producers have to make their money back and Tonys and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Noel Wells

For all of my class projects, I somehow turned it into a commercial parody or put on plays. My whole thing was seeing things from a big picture, from beginning to middle to end: making a costume, doing voices, writing a script, making it all happen.

Ben Bernanke

Investment banks manage to go bankrupt through their investment-banking activities, commercial banks manage to go bankrupt through their commercial-banking activities.

Dave Morrison

When you're watching a high-def broadcast, and you see a (standard) commercial come on, it looks like someone put a sheet over your television.

Cynthia Price

We know women influence up to 85 percent of all (auto) purchases. We decided to create an event that's a more relevant experience for women.

Lawrence Awe

We know we've got to create time out of no time.

Deirdre O'Kane

Waiting to be hired, as an actor, especially, is soul-destroying... There is always something you can do... Create something, a play reading... Anything. But don't rely on other people to come to you. Put yourself out there.

Don McCoy

Venus is extremely inhospitable for life, whereas Earth is a great place to live. If these planets were created about the same time, why would Earth take on such a different character?

Thomas Kristensen

Vendors can take months to create patches, and sometimes users grumble about that, ... But the alternative is to have patches that can be circumvented or aren't appropriate for the vulnerability. It's a difficult balance.

Lisa Jakub

What was really wonderful about the 'Doubtfire' shoot is that we had this really long rehearsal period in the beginning. That was a great time to get to know each other. We got to know each other and to create the family vibe. So we really didn't have to force it.

Michael Steele

The federal government has never created one job that is sustainable long term. It creates government project work but not creating real work where people are.

Ghazi Hamad

The position of the (Interior Ministry) general inspector was not created by the government, it had been there before the new government was formed.

John Brown

the people who create it want the most to protect it.

Kevin Barry

We want to take education and make it a cultural experience.

Jeb Bush

There are cultural reasons, economic competitiveness reasons. There are a lot of reasons why people are in poverty. The difference today is that increasingly they are in perpetual poverty.

Doug Barry

We want people to see us as part of the cultural vitality of the greater Hilton Head area.

Patrick Stump

We're so busy broadcasting our latest cultural disdain that we scantly notice anything we enjoy. 'Oh man, this Rebecca Black kid is terrible! Let's laugh at her!' has become more culturally relevant than, 'I really love this new Bilal record.'

Gurinder Chadha

We were delighted to find out that here was someone in the US who was exploring the same themes as us, in terms of diaspora, culture, cultural negotiations and identity.

Krisztina Nagy

The region needs peace, economic development and real exercise of cultural rights for Kurds.

Stephen Lewis

Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable... and you do something about social and cultural equality for women, you're never going to defeat this pandemic.

Tom Lake

Working there, excavating, is truly like taking a ride in a time machine as you uncover cultural artifacts that see the light of day for the first time in thousands of years.

Steve Biko

We regard witchcraft, as part of the mystery of our cultural heritage

Charles Stanley

Success is the continuing achievement of becoming the person God wants you to be and accomplishing the goals God has helped you set.

Alan Watts

Courage is the goal of cowards.

Alan Watts

Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not hurrying, the purposeless life misses nothing, for it is only when there is no goal and no rush that the human senses are fully open to receive the world.

Diane von Furstenberg

My goal in life is to be your best friend when you open your closet

David Schwimmer

I'm very goal oriented.

David Rusenko

Whether people want to do business or sell things online, reach new people and be found, showcase their achievements, or communicate with their friends or family, Weebly is the best way for them to create a high-quality site that meets their goals.

David R. Brower

The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society, which is nature's proper steward and society's only hope.

Jean Gordon

The point of this team that has had me the most worried is our defense. But they stepped up big down (at the goal line).

Bob Thomas

We are progressing well with this project, and we feel we can meet our goal of starting construction in July.

David Krumholtz

I came away from that set [ Hail, Caesar !] super inspired, and like I said, it ruined all future endeavors. I'll never have as good an experience as that.

Ariana Grande

I was definitely inspired by Madonna.

Pauline Flynn

Well be inspired by these poles and their messages for years to come.

Joseph Cook

She was the first person who got me involved and kind of inspired me,

Rinko Kikuchi

When watching movies, I was always inspired by the performances of the cast. Of course, the story and the direction and all that intrigued me. But what actors would propel themselves to do, and be, was awesome. It was like, how could these people give so much?

Brenda Valdes

She really inspired us to do what we are doing.

Jessie Miller

She is what inspired me. I was so angry.

Rachel Johnson

Mr. Milner not only taught us, he inspired us to make a difference.

Evan Hunter

I can't say which of the writers inspired me the most, but it was probably Hemingway.

Sun Yuxi

The United States must take a more cooperative and pragmatic attitude, it must take responsibility, and it must apologize.

Kevin Barry

I think journalism is useful training for a writer in the way it takes the preciousness out of the pragmatic side of the craft.

Gloria Swanson

I am a very pragmatic person.

Charles W. Pickering

The House is rooted in the principle of direct elections and is unique among all branches and bodies of the federal government as without exception, the people's voice.

Charles Taylor

[E]ach of our voices has something unique to say. Not only should I not mold my life to the demands of external conformity; I can't even find the model by which to live outside myself. I can only find it within.

Charles Edward Merriam

Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America.

Alan Greenspan

The recent evidence increasingly suggests that an economic expansion is already well under way, although an array of influences unique to this business cycle seems likely to moderate its speed

Akhil Sharma

Certainly the details of our life are unique. Spending time thinking of how I am different from someone else, however, does not tend to be very productive.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Do not allow the enemy of your soul to rob you of that unique quality God has breathed into you.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We cannot grasp the true meaning of the divine holiness by thinking of someone or something very pure and then raising the concept to the highest degree we are capable of. God's holiness is not simply the best we know infinitely bettered. We know nothing like the divine holiness. It stands apart, unique, unapproachable, incomprehensible and unattainable. The natural man is blind to it. He may fear God's power and admire His wisdom, but His holiness he cannot even imagine.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We know nothing like the divine holiness. It stands apart, unique, unapproachable, incomprehensibl e and unattainable... Holy is the way God is. To be holy He does not conform to a standard. He is that standard.

Chris Asplen

What we've begun to do is discuss the issue, the constitutional issues around that idea, again the privacy issue, which may not be unconstitutional but may pertain to our unique sense of privacy in the United States.