Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Andrews

We're honored to be the architects for these projects. Working with staff and school officials, we've tried to design a building that's functional and easy to maintain. When this is done, we want you all to look forward to coming to school and going to the classrooms we build.

Thomas Heatherwick

It's important for people who criticise architects - whether what they build is or isn't to your taste - to appreciate how they devote themselves and put everything into bringing a building into existence.

Adam Armstrong

She just got the architects drawings and she's excited to get going.

Dylan Walsh

L.A. is so much about ratings and box office; that defines everything. And here, of course it's important, but it's not part of the culture - there's too much else going on in New York. They're not going to let one industry monopolize your attention, you know? You're likely to have best friends who are architects or newspaper reporters.

Robert Seidman

Fortunately, we were not in the construction phase and were able to have the architects make significant changes ... to upgrade the foundation, for instance, ... It was all done in the planning phase.

Anthony DeCurtis

He was one of the architects of the Beatles sound.

Edward Cooke

He has been at the forefront of most of the architectural movements of the past 30 years, ... influence people who were architects or in business.

John Zogby

He may be seen as one of the architects of an illusion. Or he may be seen as one of the architects of global stability. That needs at least a decade to play out.

John Tabor

Wherever possible, ... I'd like to see Charlotte architects and contractors used. I'd like to keep the Charlotte taxpayers' money here in Charlotte.

Nigel Barker

Designers simply can't afford to make dresses in 10 sizes for a sample.

Francesca Zambello

Working with Placido Domingo, we have coined the term 'American Ring,' and the designers and I are using American history, mythology, iconography and landscape to set the operas.

Richard Martin

She was incredibly important. She was one of that first group in the 1930s of designers recognized by name.

Eric Berg

The only future for designers in Paris is to sell to a big group or to work for one,

Diane Clehane

There is a sense that things have gotten too vulgar, and designers will do their part and pull back.

Candice Olson

There are designers who say, 'Oh! I see wallpaper and blue carpet.' I usually start by knocking down walls. 'You thought you just needed some new drapes? Well, guess what: That wall's gotta go.'

Jim Senall

I think this is very exciting. We're trying, as a region, to be users of alternative energy and be the designers of new technologies for this. This falls right in line with what we see as the future of our region.

Steve Roddy

Linux has quickly become one of the most popular operating systems for embedded applications. With our Diamond Standard 232L processor core, we enable designers to develop new systems with significantly reduced power requirements -- essential for handheld mobile applications.

Max Azria

For me, one of the biggest designers is Azzedine Alaia. Everything he is doing is fantastic.

Charles de Gaulle

All my life I have had a certain idea of France.

Charles de Lint

Let me give you some advice: Try to approach things without preconceived ideas, without supposing you already know everything there is to know about them. Get that trick down and you'll be surprised at what's really all around you.

Charles Dickens

She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea.

Charles Soule

Ive always loved the idea of mythologies linked to or underlying everyday life, like the kami gods of Shintoism, where every rock, tree and stream has its own little god associated with it.

Charles Stross

The idea of Curious Yellow, of surrender to a higher cause, seems to appeal to a certain small subset of humanity. These people manipulate the worm, customizing its payload to establish quisling dictatorships in its shadow, and the horrors these gauleiters invent in its service are far worse than the crude but direct tactics the original worm used.

Charles Stanley

People don't like the idea of consequences. They want to be able to live their life freely and do what they want to do without any consequences. And we know that's just not the way life is.

Charles Spurgeon

Abhor all idea of being saved by good works, but O, be as full of good works as if you were to be saved by them!

Alan Watts

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

Alan Watts

The idea of the Universe being ruled by that marvelous old gentleman, is no longer plausible. It isn't that anybody has disproved it, but it just somehow doesn't go with the vast infinitude of the Universe.

Robert G. Allen

We're mainly providing a place to sleep, shower and use restrooms.

Jamie Bamber

When I'm living in L.A., I'm mainly a jeans, vintage T-shirt and Nike high-tops guy.

Sanyo President

We have high-end range refrigerators which are mainly meant for the urban areas.

Miuccia Prada

Lengths are mainly around the knee, but, in the evening, it is really short. So it's mixed up in that way.

Sylvia Hatchell

She's a winner. She took that shot mainly because she's a winner.

Fiona Shaw

I mainly have a nice time in my life.

Viswanathan Anand

I personally prefer long-distance walking, but we are talking about pre-tournament preparation. During a tournament I make do with walking, mainly to concentrate before a game.

Bobby Short

I was very young at the time, and I mainly appreciated their vocal qualities, even though I was already living as they did - as black performers in a white world.

Pierce Brosnan

Some people think my singing is superb. But they're mainly on strong medication and not allowed out much.

C. S. Lewis

When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love them.

Eric Rasmussen

The problem with much of that thinking is that it's taking something from today, like movies, and merely putting it on the Web.

John Webster

We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.

Elliot Mintz

Janet is merely one of a number of witnesses and there is no allegation whatsoever that Janet has violated any law.

Jane Greer

My mouth was too large, my eyes turned out, and my legs mere toothpicks.

Charles M. Schwab

For my own part I am more interested in my work than its mere money value.

Oscar Wilde

No, I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

Adolf Hitler

All those who are not racially pure are mere chaff.

Charles Hodge

Our first remark on this subject is that the ministry is an office, and not merely a work.

Edith Wharton

traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.

Carlos Fuentes

There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.

Boozoo Chavis

I keep up the tradition, the zydeco.

Edmund Burke

Custom reconciles us to everything.

Brian King

We try to keep the regulations down. That's an A.T. tradition as much as anything else.

Charles Rosen

The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition.

Auguste Comte

The dead govern the living.

Camille Paglia

The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati.

Allan Bloom

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.