Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frei Otto

My hope is that light, flexible architecture might bring about a new and open society.

Frank Grillo

What I look for in a role is the physical. But what's the journey emotionally? Can I take this person who is this archetypal tough guy and find the beauty?

Frank Grillo

A film that I love is 'Deliverance' from back in the day. You start out with these archetypal characters - the hero, the bookworm, the pacifist - and by the end, it's all turned upside down. I love that.

Luis Barragan

It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis.

Oscar Niemeyer

Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.

Francisco Costa

I'm inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process.

Tony Scott

We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements.

While next generation HD players are in final assembly, and movies are being mastered, the AACS architects are ensuring consumers can enjoy the HD picture, sound and robust portability potential of AACS without any further delays. Much more than just HD movies, AACS delivers new consumer interactivity, portability and feature enhancement after purchase on a scale like no other consumer digital entertainment system can. AACS represents a cross-industry team of chip, consumer electronics, PC designers and content creators, all dedicated to enriching the consumer's home and portable entertainment experience.

Rose Leslie

I do love archery in my day-to-day life because I find it very therapeutic, and I've trained every season with the bow and arrow.

Rose McIver

The great thing about being an actor in a film is that you're able to start knowing exactly where you're going to finish and really paint something in between. You can work to know the arc you need to build. Whereas in television, it is open-ended, and you're constantly guessing. There are pros and cons to both.

Stephen Gardiner

Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.

We liked the architecture of our old neighborhood, and we didn't want to sacrifice that charm for suburbia.

David Caruso

We concluded a three-year arc last year with the brother, ... and the little broken family that the brother had left behind, and all of those very interesting loose ends.

We closed the arcade to make way for what we believe is going to be a great new concept.

David Foster Wallace

And he wishes, in the cold quiet of his archer's heart, that he himself could feel the intensity of their reconciliations as strongly as he feels that of their battles.

David Chipperfield

Britain loves a bargain, but you don't get good, lasting architecture on the cheap.

Confucius

In archery we have something like the way of the superior man. When the archer misses the center of the target, he turns round and seeks for the cause of his failure in himself.

Confucius

The archer who misses his mark does not blame the target. He stops, corrects himself and shoots again.

We have great confidence in the St. Louis County market. Our architects and designers have developed a unique 'look' for this property, which is likely to become a travel destination for the entire region. We expect to break ground in Lemay in approximately one month.

Win Butler

When I was growing up, someone told me a story about an arcade that burned down and killed a bunch of kids,

Tim Carter

There have been thousands of dollars wasted in blueprints and plans because some neophyte developer hired an architect who spent tons of time and money drawing up plans (that were ultimately rejected).

The rebuilding process has begun. The architects are currently finalizing the plans.

There has to be a lot of communication between the contractor, the architect and the owner. If not, you end up with a lot of unhappy people.

James Wyatt

There has been no regular architecture since Sir William Chambers - the public taste corrupted by the Adams, I am obliged to comply with it.

Steve Ballmer

We have an incredible opportunity...to revolutionize the Internet user experience. We need to deliver our next generation services platform in order to do that. And we need Bill Gates 100 percent focused on helping architect that.

Martin Mull

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

We have a very open architecture for data warehousing and BI, partly because Oracle Warehouse Builder 10 g works so well with third-party databases. Oracle Warehouse Builder performs the heavy lifting with our ETL processes, and it minimizes costs by delivering data to a variety of end-user tools.

Norm MacDonald

I miss seeing real comics, Shecky Greene and Buddy Hackett, those types. I like straight stand-up, talking about the Olympics and why I feel obligated to watch them. 'Why am I watching archery at 4 in the afternoon?'

There are a lot of bad films out there. There's a lot of bad architecture out there, and I think sometimes it takes a lot of time to begin to see what's really good. And I think what the test seems to be is, what really sticks with you. And what really becomes a part of your life.

As a child, my father's architecture seemed to me to be industrial in a way. It seemed harsh and kind of chilly; I didn't respond to it.

Shashi Tharoor

The notion of 'world leadership' is a curiously archaic one. The very phrase is redolent of Kipling ballads and James Bondian adventures. What makes a country a world leader? Is it population, in which case India is on course to top the charts, overtaking China as the world's most populous country by 2034?

Lois Capps

We have a moral responsibility to save wild places like the arctic refuge for future generations, and that is why our country has remained committed to its protection for nearly 50 years.

Kerry Greenwood

I fell in love with words in all languages, and I read everything I could find, particularly myths and legends and histories and archeology and any novels.