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.

Gary Porter

We're not caught up in rumors. We don't know what the plan is. We'll cross that bridge if it comes. Obviously, his grades are good enough for him to go on to college.

Sathya Baba

Life is a bridge over the sea of changes. Do not build a house on it.

English Proverb

Let every man praise the bridge that carries him over

Mark Dayton

Minnesotans voted their preference today for leaders who will build bridges rather than moats.

Allie Rowe

One of my goals was to bridge the gap between students and athletes. My dad has been really involved with the ACS; I have a couple cancer survivors in my family, and I lost my grandpa to leukemia. I thought starting the relays would be a really bring a cool thing to do and bring students together.

W. S. Gilbert

One of my fondest goals is to try to bridge the gap between urban and rural Oregon. Democrats identify with urban people, Republicans with rural people. We need to get rid of partisanship.

Gary Hoffman

Of all the needs we face, none is greater than our bridges. You can have a road failure; that's not catastrophic. A bridge failure is.

Kofi Annan

Now we turn to a new task: to implement what has been agreed, and keep working to bridge differences that remain,

Bill Calder

Now these cities are getting into the game, because they want to bridge their digital divide.

Chantal Kreviazuk

Making sleep happen is a must- anytime, anywhere, from a plane to a train to an automobile. Ideally, I like to get eight to ten hours a night, though I'll take it broken up in two segments if I have to.

Gerald Howarth

Liam Fox has most directly addressed the policy issues of concern to me, particularly the broken society.

Terence Courtney

Let?s put all this money, effort, and resources into something that?s already broken that serves the vast majority of people here in the city, and that?s MARTA.

Peter Akinola

Let there be no illusions, ... The communion is broken and fragmented. The communion will break.

William Laud

Lord, I am coming as fast as I can: I know I must pass through the shadow of death before I can come to Thee; but it is but umbra mortis, a mere shadow of death... Thou, by thy merits and passion, hath broken through the jaws of death.

Martin King

Love is the only cement that can hold this broken community together.When I am commanded to love, I am commanded to restore community, to resist injustice, and to meet the needs fo my brothers.

Katie Quinn

Many people were broken that day. I was broken.

Steve Fossett

So far there have been few problems. A broken winch was readily repaired by the crew, as was a batten problem in the mainsail. Sailing winds have been excellent and at one point we were flying a hull,

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Much of the marble coldness of Hester's impression was to be attributed to the circumstance that her life had turned, in a great measure, from passion and feeling, to thought. Standing alone, as to any dependent on society, and with little Pearl to be guided and protected- alone, and hopeless of retrieving her position, even as she had not scorned to consider it desirable, she cast away the fragments of a broken chain.

Debra Messing

I love London. I love England. We were out in the countryside and I had the time of my life

Stephen Dorff

I'd like to make a movie in the South of France. I'd like to make a movie in London again. And, I'm going to make a movie in Amsterdam.

Lauren Willig

I'm an eighteenth-century girl at heart. I wouldn't mind being set down in London in 1715, in the midst of all the drama of the Hanoverian succession.

Alan Rickman

You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else.

David Mitchell

When insolvent, pack minimally, with a valise tough enough to be thrown onto a London pavement from a first- or second-floor window. Insist on hotel rooms no higher.

Carole King

I went to London and performed in Eric Clapton's concert at the Royal Albert Hall. I'll work with him any time he asks me.

Camille Pissarro

It does not astonish me that the critics in London relegate me to the lowest rank. Alas! I fear that they are only too justified!

Benedict Cumberbatch

I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.

Antony Beevor

When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.

Ian Paisley

I was telling the truth, I said I was very, very worried. At that time I was in the midst of trying to get a way whereby this would not happen. And it has happened. My words have been proved to be right.

Gail Tsukiyama

When I'm in the midst of finishing a book, I can be working around the clock.

George Allen

I think they will step down if they're indicted. I do think that's appropriate if they're in the midst of an indictment.

Adam Braun

We all have those things that even in the midst of stress and disarray, they energize us and give us renewed strength and purpose. These are our passions.

Agatha Christie

One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.

Stan Conte

I don't know how serious it is. We're still in the midst of it. We're doing some testing and will know more tomorrow afternoon.

John Fernandes

Right now we are in the midst of running down leads.

Jim Calhoun

Rankings and polls and seeds and all that stuff, in the midst of a game, they don't count. You have to make shots, you have to get rebounds, you have to play defense.

Erin Morgenstern

It is difficult to see a situation for what it is when you are in the midst of it,” Tsukiko says. “It is too familiar. Too comfortable.

David Pogue

If you continue to improve a product enough, you'll eventually ruin it.

Chang-Rae Lee

For sometimes you can't help but crave some ruin in what you love.

Bill Murray

I've never made any horrible, horrible movies. If you don't ruin your reputation, you can always get work.

Boman Irani

Fear is one thing that can ruin everything. It's the greatest problem.

Brandon Sanderson

Welcome, Ruin said, to godhood.

Bruce Sterling

The frontiers of the future will be the ruins of the unsustainable.

Bruce Sterling

The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century’s frontier.

Benjamin Disraeli

We moralize among ruins.

Ambrose Bierce

RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids.

Dennis Crowley

Stop sketching and start building.

Dennis Crowley

Stop sketching. Start building.

Selenis Leyva

I did sketch comedy with a troupe at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.

John Lloyd

I can help you shape your sitcom, I can help you think about what could make your sketch show better, but it won't help you get you a commission.

Artie Lange

To tell you the truth, I always wanted to be a sketch comedian and a comedy actor.

Jim Rash

When I teach sketch writing, there's still a beginning, middle and end.

Vincent Van Gogh

My sketchbook is a witness of what I am experiencing, scribbling things whenever they happen.

Charles Phillips

Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne a sceptred hermit, wrapped in the solitude of his own originality.

Eleanor Catton

Solitude is a condition best enjoyed in company.

Elizabeth Bowen

Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone the pleasure in being alone: this is the paradox of any happy solitude. She had never landed at Cork, so this hill and that hill beyond were as unexpected as pictures at which you say "Oh look!" Nobody was beside her to share the moment, which would have been imperfect with anyone else there.

Elfriede Jelinek

After all, when you take a walk you're after solitude, and if the solitude won't come to you, you must go to it.

Greta Garbo

I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference.

Charles Dudley Warner

Isolation breeds conceit.

Charles de Gaulle

In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?

Charles Baudelaire

Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet.

Edith Wharton

Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.

Aubrey de Vere

Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone.

Jim Hawkins

For writing style and pace, your work stands alone.

Greg Gard

From our standpoint we have no say who we get.

James Baker

From our standpoint at least, it was a win.

Jack Nicklaus

From a tournament standpoint that will be it for me,

Eliot Spitzer

I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.

Michael Jansen

I wouldn't stand in the way of that.

William Shakespeare

I grow, I prosper;Now, gods, stand up for bastards!

Charles Dickens

She's the only sylph I ever saw, who could stand upon one leg, and play the tambourine on her other knee, like a sylph.

Charles Darwin

[Alexander von Humboldt was the] greatest scientific traveller who ever lived.

Juvenal

A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.

George Herbert

Much spends the traveller, more then the abider.

Penny Lancaster

Im a pretty organised traveller.

Carl Sagan

It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.

Carl Sagan

She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

Carl Sagan

We are one species. We are starstuff.

Richard Leakey

I can't think of any other region in the world which is such a vast source of fossils.

Maurissa Tancharoen

Marvel is a very vast and diverse universe.

George E. Brown, Jr.

The vast majority of politicians think they are functioning on high principle.

Carl Sagan

But our preferences do not determine what's true.

Alex Beuzelin

They are still vastly under-performing the U.S. economy,

Moby

Over time, I started becoming more and more aware of the vastness and complexity of the universe, which led me away from any sort of conventional Christianity.

Lewis Carroll

Please, Ma' am, is this New Zealand or Australia?

Peter Jackson

Down in New Zealand now, there will be a lot of celebrating,