Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Jack Stewart

Music is part of the big three. New Orleans is food, architecture and music. Everyone in New Orleans is a musician or has a relative who's a musician, whether they are professional or amateur.

Camille Strachan

New Orleans is body and soul. The soul is the people and the body is the architecture, and you can't save the one without saving the other. We need to have individual assessment of houses before they are bulldozed willy-nilly.

Deborah Marrow

New Orleans is an extraordinary city; its arts and architecture are cherished by people all over the world.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

I founded a club, which is called the Brutally Early Club. It's basically a breakfast salon for the 21st century where art meets science meets architecture meets literature.

Thom Mayne

I fought violently for the autonomy of architecture. It's a very passive, weak profession where people deliver a service. You want a blue door, you get a blue door. You want it to look neo-Spanish, you get neo-Spanish. Architecture with any authenticity represents resistance. Resistance is a good thing.

Kathleen Bergen

Many significant hurricanes have hit South Florida and none of our buildings have had significant damages.

Richard Butler

Maybe with respect to those (eight) buildings there will be some special arrangements made where our professional team will be accompanied by diplomatic observers,

Edward Kennedy

One of the things the American people are very concerned about is shabby work and that certainly is true about the families whose houses are going to be rebuilt and buildings that are going to be restored,

Lolly Barnes

One of the things that's so devastating about this storm is Biloxi was really being restored from the really grand, public historic buildings to the smallest vernacular cottages.

Du Plessis

Occupiers of 'bad' buildings are exposed to far worse dangers on the streets than in the buildings, whether it be from the elements or from criminals who may prey on them and their possessions.

Jeff Baker

No one is questioning the good that is being done with this money. We just need the money here in the district. Our buildings need to be repaired and those are the funds that we can use to get that done.

John Towers

Now, we have worship in four buildings other than chapels.

John Krasinski

I want to start a Dunkin' Donuts in Los Angeles. I already have the perfect location picked out. It would be the old Tower Records buildings on Sunset.

Mike Jones

When the leases expire, at that point we're going to take the buildings down.

Catherine Hardwicke

So many images are saying to girls, 'Show a lot of skin and look gorgeous and sexy.'

Lila Acheson Wallace

I knew right away that it was a gorgeous idea.

Paul Holmes

What I saw was a gorgeous presentation. There wasn't a single fact, there wasn't a single price, there wasn't a single commitment.

Galina Espinoza

Here's why. She's young, she's gorgeous and she knows how to pull off sophisticated gowns.

Bud Selig

It is a gorgeous day. In Milwaukee, you don't get a day like this until July Fourth.

Josh Henderson

I was amazed. Everything was black. Ten months from now, it's going to be gorgeous out there.

Robert Rosen

For me to take someone's pic they have to have 'the look'. It may be a mix of different things - beauty, fame, flamboyance, a gorgeous outfit, but whatever it may be, they have to exude style.

Amitabh Bachchan

Mr. Leonardo DiCaprio - he be soo gorgeous, no wonder all the ladies flockin' to him - He be Gatsby.

Blake Lively

I love to photograph the gorgeous landscapes when I travel.

Isabella Rossellini

There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes.

Kristy Swanson

I can't ask for every movie I make to be great and brilliant. I can only try.

Mallory Ortberg

In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.

Malorie Blackman

Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.

Jerry Reinsdorf

Like I said, Dennis has been of great value to our team.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

Scott Peck

Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truthsit is a great truth because once we see this truth, we transcend it.

William Congreve

Let us be very strange and well-bred: Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while; and as well-bred as if we were not married at all.

Matt Murphy

Me and Tony Banks, we joke around a lot. In practice and even on scout teams last year, we'd hook up a lot with passes like that. Afterward I just said to him, 'It's about time we got one in a game. Show people what we can do.' It was good.

Jake Barton

From a UX standpoint, the toughest battle is how to make a platform that's really open so kids can use it but has sort of hooks and constraints so it's actually driving towards revealing parts of the world through science or through mathematics.

Malcolm White

For Sam to come out of poverty and obscurity, to hook up with somebody like Anson ...

Robert Richardson

She was hooked up to an ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) machine to keep her alive, and so they said that transplant was the only option.

Ashley Wagner

I love to win, honestly... If you love to win, you should say it. And honestly, I'm hooked on it.

Scott Rudin

I was 10 years old, taking the train by myself to see Saturday matinees, something you'd never let a kid do now. I got very hooked on it.

Jeff Pacheco

Time could be wasted when (the individuals operating the AED) are getting machine hooked up, when the individual doesn't need an AED.

Catherynne M. Valente

...her cry is a hook and it catches me in the throat.

Charlie Sheen

Let's hook up and just bring fiery death.

James Rubin

making excuses. Why don't they let the inspectors do their job? Stop making excuses, stop trying to politicize the operation, stop trying to pick the inspectors.

Mark Reiland

Obviously, we won the right one. We wanted to win both, but if we had to pick one, this would be the one we'd pick.

Astro Teller

Moonshot thinking starts with picking a big problem: something huge, long existing, or on a global scale.

Nick Fazekas

More than likely, if I'm not a first-round pick then you'll probably see me back here.

Natalie Cole

My father was a pioneer in so many ways. He was fearless, and I think that I kind of picked that up from him as well.

J. A. Konrath

No one was interested in picking up a midlist series, even though I have a decent fanbase and respectable numbers.

Kelly Rowan

Now we kind of have to pick up the pieces.

Martin Jol

I can't remember him picking up a ball.

Chipper Jones

I can't pick him up. He's the one guy. My nemesis.

Edgar Allan Poe

If I could dwell where Israfel hath dwelt and he where I he might not sing so wildly well a mortal melody while a bolder note then this might swell from my lyre in the sky.

Author unknown

If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you!

Abraham Lincoln

I cannot imaging anyone looking at the sky and denying God.

Dick Cheney

We were trying to get all of the planes down out of the sky. And we watched as the towers of the World Trade Center collapsed - something no one expected and anticipated. And you could sit there and see and be aware that thousands of people were at that moment being killed as a result of the terrorist attacks that struck the United States.

Steve Segadelli

We have trouble with Skyline switching man-to-man, and I don't know why.

Sherlock Holmes

Watson, look up at the sky and tell me what you see.

Chogyam Trungpa

Good and bad, happy and sad, all thoughts vanish into emptiness like the imprint of a bird in the sky.

Camille Pissarro

Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis... Don't be afraid of putting on colour... Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression.

Arthur Rimbaud

I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.