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.

William Cullen Bryant

Man hath no part in all this glorious work:The hand that built the firmament hath heavedAnd smoothed these verdant swells, and sown their slopesWith herbage. . . .

William Cullen Bryant

Man hath no part in all this glorious work: The hand that built the firmament hath heaved And smoothed these verdant swells, and sown their slopes With herbage. . . .

Rabindranath Tagore

Man has a fund of emotional energy which is not all occupied with his self-preservation. This surplus seeks its outlet in the creation of art, for man's civilization is built upon his surplus... In everyday life, when we are mostly moved by our habit

Pat Morris

Like all the things he's gone through in the last two years, he'll take it in stride. If it doesn't happen then you haven't built yourself up too much to be let down.

Scott Ford

Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Stella Young

Let's not forget that the Paralympics, just like the Olympics, are built on a rich history.

Raymond Seed

Levees tend to be built in very difficult situations on poor site conditions because you're essentially turning marshy land into land you can stabilize and do things on,

Jorgen Vig Knudstorp

Lego allows all levels of complexity. But a child can do their own thing at any level. They can built a pirate ship, for example, and then mash it up with completely different things.

Roustam Tariko

Lots of businesses built in the early 1990s were not very transparent, not only by Russians, but also by foreigners.

Peter Fonda

LSD was designed for you to look inside yourself. Quite a liberating experience if you can pull it off.

Jim Kennedy

made a good-faith effort to respond to the questions despite the fact that they were designed more for a partisan purpose than a constitutional one.

Amity Gaige

Several paranoid suspicions occurred to me, the worst of which was that my whole identity was merely a patched-together set of behaviors designed to keep my parents joined to each other - the repertoire of tricks of a small but intelligent dog.

Mark Keller

Miss Copley, you're not going to like any of this, ... Your stay is too short. It's designed for punishment. Period.

Todd Spencer

Of course, the licensing process is designed to simply slide as many people through with a minimum of experience and quality.

Andy Weir

My father has a great love of science, and he indoctrinated me into it early. I think I was 12 or so when we designed a moon base.

John Clifford

Needless to say, we are very pleased with these results, ... Our enhanced surveillance program is designed to provide information about the level of prevalence of B.S.E. in the United States, which by any measure is extremely low.

Theo de Raadt

I started working on OpenBSD, and many earlier projects, because I have always felt that vendor systems were not designed for quality.

Steve Owen

From an outsider's perspective I can understand it seems odd to open a new facility while another one is closing. But Red Rock is designed for a state contract.

Granth Sahib

Lord and Master is lofty and exalted, grand and infinite

Charles Buckley

M y great grandma is a saintly sweet lady, but at the same time, she's grounded, strong and very spiritual.

Gia Coppola

My grandpa always tells me that 45-minute lunches are key because an army marches on its stomach.

Karen Carter

My grandma made it when she was old,

Shamir

My grandma has a picture of Louis Farrakhan playing violin in her house.

Kim Clijsters

Maybe it wasn't my time yet in those Grand Slams. Everything happens for a reason.

Chris Wallace

Now when you say you have cooperated with the prosecutor, does that mean, in fact, that you spoke to investigators or to the grand jury?

Evan Lysacek

Obviously, this year there are some expectations on me to perform, but this is only my third Grand Prix of my life.

Eddie Vedder

I got a great grandma. Her name is Pearl, and she was at one time married to an Indian chief, who, in a wonderful crossing of cultures, she integrated some of his, and some of hers, and um, it was a combination of peyote and preserves, and it was this hallucinogenic jam.

Rose Smith

I wouldn't trade any of this for the world.

Macaulay Culkin

I wouldn't trade any of my experiences for anything in the world, ... 20/20.

Gray Davis

I don't care. My trademark is I say what I think, for better or for worse.

Donald Trump

I think the World Trade Center should be rebuilt as the World Trade Center, only stronger and one story taller. I hate what they're doing with the World Trade Center site.

William Shakespeare

Music, moody food Of us that trade in love.

Benjamin Franklin

No nation has ever been ruined by trade.

Daniel Hannan

Most British people are keen to remain in a European free trade zone; and most EU states are keen to keep us there, because we buy from them more than we sell to them to the tune of £40 million per day.

Brenda Fassie

I am a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark.

Stan Eby

My sense is there will not be a rehearing and trade will continue. But we have to be watching all the time.