Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Burnham

Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably will not themselves be realized.

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.

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 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.

Lawrence Halprin

Then I sit down, work at it, because now I have a convincing feeling about what that place wants to be, you see? And it's not just me. Me and my talent comes in taking that consensus and then making something wonderful out of it - a work of art.

Lawrence Halprin

Because over and over again, the times that I've done really good things is because I've had a wonderful client of some kind, and a lot of it depended on me to induce them to be creative.

Alexandra Paul

I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful.

Italo Calvino

I don't believe chance can play a role in my literature.

Italo Calvino

I change my method and field of reference from book to book because I can never believe in the same thing two times running.

Italo Calvino

Personally, I believe in fiction because the stories I like are those with a beginning and an end.

Peter Jennings

Whatever you may think of Mrs. Clinton as a character, I think she believes quite strongly in public service.

Richard Rogers

I don't believe in the ownership of work.

Rick Perlstein

What does it mean to truly believe in America? To wave a flag? Or to struggle toward a more searching alternative to the shallowness of the flag-wavers - to criticize, to interrogate, to analyze, to dissent?

Robert Fisk

We are constantly trying to cope with what our fathers or our grandfathers did. I wrote the book 'Great War of Civilization,' and my father was a solider in the First World War which produced the current Middle East - not that he had much to do with that - but he fought in what he believed was the Great War for Civilization.

Robert Palmer

I believe that my music is just about feelings, and the style is just a side effect.

Mike Janko

Life insurance is an important method of estate transfer to at least consider because death benefits can pass to your heirs essentially free of taxes.

Cal Jillson

Lots of businesses already have domestic-partner benefits and those are already resolved. What business groups need is stability; they need to know what the law is and move on.

Helen Darling

Leading employers in the U.S. remain committed to helping their employees with health benefits coverage and programs to improve their health and the health of their families. These employers know that one of the most important ways to control costs is to help employees and their families get and stay healthy.

Henry Paulson

Many of the Western democracies - including the U.S. - have a problem that voters want benefits they don't want to pay for.

David McCall

Many of these people have never, ever had a livable wage. It will also give them benefits like paid time off and those kinds of things that most people look for in a job.

Harley Shaiken

Many companies are looking to roll back benefits, and benefits for retirees are at the top of the list. This decision says that while they may be first on the list, they may not be easy to cut.

Julie Sanders

Second to none...People wanna live downtown. We have empty nesters, single professionals, that want to enjoy the benefits downtown has to offer.

John Nester

Soft dollars have potential benefits and downsides for investors. The commission has been working to limit the downsides while preserving the benefits, one of them being research.

Tony Wilson

So it's kind of like, trust us, we're going to spend all this money, we're going to revolutionize the network and there are going to be great benefits but you're going to have to wait three years before you get them.

David Byers

Like everybody else, I've got people who depend on me, and if I've got a serious health problem, I need to know about it,

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Let's be honest; it's rather easy to be busy. We all can think up a list of tasks that will overwhelm our schedules. Some might even think that their self-worth depends on the length of their to-do list. They flood the open spaces in their time with lists of meetings and minutia - even during times of stress and fatigue.

Josh Billings

Life is a grindstone, and whether it grinds a man down or polishes him up depends on the stuff he's made of

Peter Gregg

Maine and us go back and forth, depending on the year.

Paul Niemann

Let's have a look at it, see what we can do with those (programs). Depending on the money situation, I think our sidewalks should be fixed ... I think we need to put safety first.

John Lott

Many people found for the first time what it is like to totally dependent on themselves for protection. People put up signs that said 'Shotguns Inside' and that kept the gangs and violence away.

William Arbaugh

Security technologies depend on the correctness of the system they're actually checking.

Robert Bennett

Much would depend upon what Mr. Libby said to the grand jury. If he said that he had not talked to Judy about these things or didn't talk about the wife, then he's got a problem.

Ray Valdes

Much will depend on how Microsoft ties Internet Explorer to its big releases next year.

Richard Rogers

If I remember rightly Holland for instance has something like 45, and it's a much smaller country. In comparison we have very few and they are very badly financed.

Richard P. Feynman

Physics has a history of synthesizing many phenomena into a few theories.

Robert Wilson

One of the few things that will remain of this time is what artists are doing. They are the journal and the diary of our time.

Ron Wood

Jo left me a few months ago for 10 days. I get this note: I'll come back when the real Ronnie comes back.

Stuart Anderson

Like any other day, you feel like you leave a few out there. But any time you shoot 68 with a hole in one, you can't complain.

James Kilts

Mach3 will remain No. 1 for the first few years, but Fusion will become our flagship brand.

Kelly Martin

Magdalena's beatable, but they're tough. Our girls got stuck a few times, but they never gave up.

David Margolick

Louis was a man of few words. And unfortunately most of the other guys were not great diarists.

David Margolick

Louis was a man of few words, ... And unfortunately most of the other guys were not great diarists.

Albert Schweitzer

It seemed to me a matter of course that we should all take our share of the burden of pain which lies upon the world.

Albert Schweitzer

We must all die. But that I can save him from days of torture, that is what I feel as my great and ever new privilege. Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.

Albert Schweitzer

No one may shut his eyes to think the pain, which is therefore not visible to him, is non-existent.

Albert Schweitzer

The fellowship of those who bear the mark of pain: who are the members of this Fellowship? Those who have learnt by experience what physical pain and bodily anguish mean, belong together all the world over; they are united by a secret bond.

Albert Schweitzer

The quiet conscience is the invention of the devil. No one of us may permit any preventable pain to be inflicted even though the responsibility for that pain is not ours. No one may shut his eyes and think that the pain which is therefore not visible, is non-existent.

John Burnside

Many of the birds Audubon painted are now extinct, and still we go on killing them, more or less casually, with our pesticides and wires and machinery.

Shelly Williams

One of my trackers made the sound of a duiker, a small antelope, as if it were in pain.

Hector Munro

No one has ever said it, but how painfully true it is that the poor have us always with them.

Van Orden

One tragedy here, one tragedy there, ... We go through different acts, but we all go through the same pain, the same suffering, the same recovery.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.