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.

Rita Ora

One time I tried to use the bathroom in the dark, and I missed the toilet, and I fell on the floor.

Alice Greczyn

My family traveled a lot. For a while we even lived in a trailer and traveled from campground to campground. If we got to eat at the Cheesecake Factory, it was the highlight of our whole year! But I don't miss having to share a bathroom with seven people or having powdered milk with my cereal. It was so nasty.

Orrin Hatch

For years, we didn't have indoor facilities, ... I never pass a bathroom by.

Jerry Lewis

For reasons unknown to us, he started firing indiscriminately -- first at two individuals who happened to be in the bathroom and then at all students and staff who passed by the outside of that bathroom door.

Joyce Kirk

On the bathroom scale he weighs 50 pounds. We took him out to the hog scales and he weighed 46 pounds.

David Davenport

I hate that shots were fired in the bathroom at Maury Middle School, ... But had young people would have gone through with this, it would have been a whole lot worse situation.

Johnny Depp

I hated having to wake up in the middle of the night to walk to my bathroom - where suddenly there was a six-foot-seven-inch, headless figure with a sword and a horse!

Jonathan Ames

(S)ex scenes and bathroom jokes are my bread and butter.

Sharon Stone

There was a point in my 40s when I went into the bathroom with a bottle of wine, locked the door, and said, 'I'm not coming out until I can totally accept the way that I look right now.'

Richard P. Feynman

Perhaps one day we will have machines that can cope with approximate task descriptions, but in the meantime, we have to be very prissy about how we tell computers to do things.

Jackie Wagstaff

Meanwhile, we've got schools that are failing. Those computers are not going to help those children. Not one bit.

Marc Andreessen

One of the big first computers was called SAGE, which was a missile defense, the first missile-defense computer, which was, like, one of the first computers in the history of the world which got sold to the Department of Defense for, I don't know, tens and tens of millions of dollars at the time.

Alan Paller

Of course it's the government. Governments will pay anything for control of other governments' computers. All governments will pay anything. It's so much better than tapping a phone.

Vijayraj Bhatt

On job portals, there are more Employers than Seekers, in real world it is reverse..

W. Richard Stevens

My first encounter with computers was in 1968 as a Freshman engineering student at the University of Michigan, taking a required Fortran IV class.

Jimmy Fallon

My dad used to work at IBM, so we used to get discounts on computers and stuff, and I did have a ThinkPad.

Cindy Cohn

Music fans shouldn't have to install potentially dangerous, privacy intrusive software on their computers just to listen to the music they've legitimately purchased.

Rick Jones

We won't always make it in five years but that's the goal. Computers will last more than five years. Some are now 8 to 10 years old and we actually wish they would die.

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.

Jacques Perrin

Nature is full of drama. I know nothing about biology, about birds, about insects, about the details of politics. I just make movies about human interest stories.

Pat Roberts

I can't really tell you some of the more specific details that would make your eyebrows even raise higher,

Robert McCarthy

I don't remember the details (of the presentation), ... but I know I was impressed.

David Procopio

There are many details about this person and how she died that may be known only to her killer and little by little by us.

Sinclair Lewis

. . . she did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them . . .

Ehud Barak

shaping the overall strategy and the details of how to move forward.

Barbara Saunders

I don't know all of the details yet. Put me at that table, and I will be your voice.

Tom Coburn

The proof, of course, will be in the details of how we stay together,

Maria Cheng

We don't have a lot of details as to what kinds of tests were done, but we are obviously keen to have the samples sent abroad.

Robert Fisk

American power in the Middle East is collapsing. It doesn't need much more than a shove, and it will - and that's not going to be a good thing.

Kent Baer

(Lynch has) great vision, tremendous speed. You've got to make him run east and west, not north and south. He's a game-breaker kind of back, the kind of back you'd love to have on your team. He's a tremendous ballplayer.

Hiroyuki Kitakata

Losing Iran supplies will have a massive impact on the market, and there is no way that other Middle East producers are going to be able to make up for that loss.

Kacey Musgraves

Lee Ann Womack is from near where I grew up in East Texas, so I've always looked up to her. I sang a lot of Dolly Parton as a kid and a lot of traditional western swing, like Patsy Cline and Roy Rogers.

Tony Blair

So for those who sometimes say that the process in the Middle East is hopeless we say we can look at Northern Ireland and take some hope from that.

Kevin Pittsnogle

Momentum helps, but last season, we went to the Big East with no momentum. We're in the same situation again.

Aaron Gray

One of our goals is to get a bye in the first round of the Big East Tournament.

Stacey Snider

Munich. If you're on either side in an extremist way on the issue of the source of the Middle East conflict, you're not going to just be upset, you're going to be really upset. Is that the reason not to make it? That was the gist of all of our conversations.

Frank Holmes

Money will flow to where there are solid returns on capital. There are great opportunities in Eastern Europe and other emerging markets. We're seeing economic growth twice that of the U.S. but stocks are trading at a discount.

Alexandra Adornetto

Sometimes you meet a person and you just click-you're comfortable with them, like you've known them your whole life, and you don't have to pretend to be anyone or anything.

Italo Calvino

I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written.

Roger von Oech

Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.

Kurt Andersen

I think we tend to be kind of ahistorical, and think that life as we are living it in the moment is all we know.

Marcy Kaptur

I view myself as someone who is always trying to make life better in practical ways and putting the pieces together to do that.

Malorie Blackman

A film of my life would never happen!

Mamata Banerjee

I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.

Albert Schweitzer

Late upon the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset . . . there flashed upon my mind, unforseen and unsought, the phrase 'Reverence for Life'.

Albert Schweitzer

Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very useful . . . the artist to exist only for his art, even if he gives inspiration to many. . . . It refuses to let the business man imagine that he fulfills all legitimate demands in the course of his business activities. It demands from all that they should sacrifice a portion of their own lives for others.

Joel Madden

When we were 15, my brother and I were getting really into Nirvana, Green Day, and The Beastie Boys. We started going to shows and realized we really wanted to be on stage.

Joe Perry

For years I've wanted to find some guys that I could work with, because I realized a long time ago that I can do a lot of things other than Aerosmith.

Luciano Spalletti

Francesco also realized it, and immediately said 'I'm broken.

Walter Isaacson

He said, 'From then on, I realized that I was not just abandoned. I was chosen. I was special.' And I think that's the key to understanding Steve Jobs.

Waris Ahluwalia

I went through different styles but realized Ray-Bans are the classics. You can't go wrong with them. I explore and cheat on them occasionally, but I always go back to the aviators.

Yigal Azrouel

I started out making personal pieces, and realized that I actually like designing. I am self-taught, so I had a lot to learn technically.

Yoko Ono

After I was 70, I realized that, 'Okay, I would like to have another 50 years, and I probably could.' But part of me is saying, 'Maybe I'm not going to have that much time.'

Birdman

I was a young-un when I got my first million. Then I realized if I got one, I could get two. If I could get two, I could get ten. If I could get ten, I could get a hundred.

John Thorne

When I realized what was going on, I wanted to give. If you've got things that make sense to give, then we should do it.

Alexandra Paul

I've always preferred food be on the blander side.

S. Walker

One will be right here and the other will be other side of the ramp, diagonally.

Roger Szendy

New Fairfield is on the other side of the lake, and there would be a lot of time spent just trying to stay organized.

Tessanne Chin

I think on stage there's a side of me that comes out that's very fierce and confident.

Eleanor Porter

Of course things you don't know about are always nicer'n things you do, same as the pertater on 'tother side of the plate is always the biggest.

Ehud Barak

I'm such a failed politician that all of my rivals have disappeared, on both sides.

Eric Herzik

I don't think he's going to want to let this go unanswered. You don't want to see it (the rating) slip any more, or you're on the wrong side of the equation.

Abraham Lincoln

I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side.

Claude Mandil

On the refining side we need regulations to be predictable.

Italo Calvino

I have spent more time with other people's books than with my own. I do not regret it.

Michael Heisley

I have spent my career making a difference with underperforming assets.

Lisa Bonet

I spent a lot of time feeling alienated and rejected.

Source Unknown

Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

Geoffrey West

I spent most of my career doing high-energy physics, quarks, dark matter, string theory and so on.

Felix Feneon

If Monsieur X spent an eternity studying treatises on optics, he would never paint 'La Grande Jatte.'

Peter O'Toole

Omar Sharif and I spent nine months in the desert, day after day for nine months.

Rachel Boston

Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.

Emma Thomas

We've spent almost ten years of our lives making 'Batman' films.

Jon Johansen

Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.

George Wald

The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one.

Ban Ki-moon

We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'

Aerin Lauder

I think every woman should be using a foundation, whether it's liquid or compact.

Tom Jenkinson

This current round of gigs, I'm just doing it using pure electronics.

Lucy Liu

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.

Alan Chambers

One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality. Satan, the enemy is using people to further his agenda to destroy the Kingdom of God and as many souls as he can.

Bernard Meltzer

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

Nathan Thompson

I think using this lumber makes it very unique.