Famous Quotes & Sayings

That's quite a compliment to Archie because a lot of junior college players can't make that play. A lot of young men would have forced that shot up.

The biggest thing is the architect didn't have a contractor involved on the project from the beginning. That would have made things go by quicker.

The better you know how to build, the better architect you will be.

The best term would be indigenous architecture. You want to find local architecture; emulate what's already there.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

Tessa Jowell

Taken together, the archives of broadcasters are as much a part of our postwar popular culture as the Beatles or Harry Potter,

Robin Day

There's this very vulnerable planet of ours with finite resources. Architects and designers have, I think, a fair responsibility for conserving energy and materials, and making things durable.

Once they are able to connect the emotion with the image, an archetypal healing occurs.

Not only are they destroying architecture of note, they are destroying history.

It only sounds archaic if people aren't having a good time,

David Bowie

I told them I'd only do it if they got Arcade Fire to perform. They're fantastic.

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Al Sharpton

I'm not interested in being Archie Bunker, I'm looking forward to becoming George Bush.

Marc Guggenheim

I'm not like Jonathan Hickman, who's able to sort of plot out three years of a book ahead of time. I'm much more of a guy who plots out an arc or two at a time.

Spike Jonze

I met Arcade Fire on their first record, 'Funeral.' I loved that record, and it was a record I was listening to while I wrote 'Where the Wild Things Are.' Those songs - especially 'Wake Up' and 'Neighbourhood' - there's a lot of that record that's about childhood.

I like building and making things. I, perhaps, would like to try my hand at directing one day. Sometimes I fancy myself as an architect - but I think I might need to go back to school for that.

I initially thought I would be an architect, maybe. So I went to architecture camp and quickly learned that I did not want to be an architect. I was like, 'No. This is not for me.'

I have six children, and we live in a riverbed. If it gets really bad, we'll go to the church and see what the architect of the world has in store for us.

Tom Odell

I'm a big Arcade Fire fan. I love the way they make records - 'Funeral' being my favorite.

The board had concerns about how that sign blended with the historic architecture of the area, and also about it being a permanent feature.

It's difficult to tell what's happening with grids since it's mostly a marketing-driven exercise today. Our extensive grid research has yet to unearth a major project in implementing a grid architecture related to storage.

Harry Reid

It's designed to protect Big Oil while mistakenly believing that drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge will solve America's energy problems.

It's critical for architects to understand the different manners in which children learn. You need an environment designed to accommodate those needs. The environment for learning is totally different than when I was in school.

They're an outstanding and professional company that has experience managing resorts in both Minnesota and Iowa. They are a professional firm, have a good team of engineers and architects ready to design this facility and they have an impeccable record of operating resort parks.

Phil Klay

There's a wide spectrum between a Navy SEAL hero-killer and a traumatized victim, but those are the archetypes - hashed and rehashed in the media, in popular culture, in the minds of people with a lot of preconceived notions but not much else.

Scott Horowitz

If we can determine there's water somewhere, that's a big deal. That has huge impacts on what we do for our architecture for exploration in the future.

If you're not 100 per cent familiar with the territory, this can be a very good idea. An architect or a surveyor will know the industry, and be able to talk the same language as the builders. Even if it's 10 per cent of the total cost of the project, it can be money extremely well spent when it comes to securing your own peace of mind.

If you're no longer growing together, you have to part ways and go on. I think that 'death do us part' is an archaic aspect of marriage. It's not really applicable. I think about my grandparents who were married for 60-odd years, but they hated each other. That was the custom then, and I don't really think that's the healthiest approach.

In this business, you don't have to be an architect or an engineer or a brick layer. But you have to understand how the money flows. That you can only understand if you're on the site.

In the face of implacable opposition from some of the most vocal critics in Britain, and at the grave and constant risk of personal unpopularity, you have courageously revived, defended and sustained the most humane principles of British and American architecture and town making,

Instead of being this tiny player, (ozone) can be more like 30 or 40 or even 50 percent of the cause of warming that we're seeing in the Arctic now. It's very dramatic.

In order to have very special projects, ... you have to design the rugs, we have to design the fabrics, we have to design and do all the architecture in order to get something very special and new.

David Chipperfield

I like to be surrounded by books. My wife Evelyn has a Ph.D. in comparative literature, so we have a lot of her Spanish and German literature books which are wasted on me, plus a lot of novels and books on art and architecture shared by us both. Evelyn used to edit an art magazine called 'FMR,' so we have a common interest in design.