Famous Quotes & Sayings

Toyo Ito

We have to base architecture on the environment.

Peter Zumthor

Architecture is not about form

Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture.

Paulo Coelho

I am a very good archer. I use archery as my way of meditation. I cannot sit down and just meditate in the classical sense. I am very active. So, I use archery. I have my bow, my arrow and I use this tension and relaxation in the second after throwing the arrow. And it is my way to meditate and this is the only thing that clears my mind. When I do archery, I am totally there with my bow, my target, my arrow, and I don't think, I am communion with the universe.

Moshe Safdie

Architecture is changing faster than some other professions.

Moshe Safdie

We are producing urban places which are disjointed and disconnected and not worthy of our civilisation

Moshe Safdie

Who knows, maybe I am simply a talented architect?

Walt Whitman

When the materials are ready, the architects shall appear.

Samuel Johnson

To build is to be robbed.

Twyla Tharp

I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.

Jeffrey Archer

Making a million legally has always been difficult. Making a million illegally has always been a little easier. Keeping a million when you have made it is perhaps the most difficult of all.

Who is the architect? I am the architect.

Eugen Herrigel

Don't think of what you have to do, don't consider how to carry it out! The shot will only go smoothly when it takes the archer himself by surprise. It must be as if the bowstring suddenly cut through the thumb that held it. You mustn't open the right hand on purpose.

Eugen Herrigel

The shot will go smoothly only when it takes the archer himself by surprise.

GARGOYLE, n. A rain-spout projecting from the eaves of mediaeval buildings, commonly fashioned into a grotesque caricature of some personal enemy of the architect or owner of the building. This was especially the case in churches and ecclesiastical structures generally, in which the gargoyles presented a perfect rogues' gallery of local heretics and controversialists. Sometimes when a new dean and chapter were installed the old gargoyles were removed and others substituted having a closer relation to the private animosities of the new incumbents.

Cynthia Payne

Galvanised into action by the second trial, I was determined to change Britain's archaic sex laws.

Frank Gehry

It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it.

Frank Gehry

Ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.

Felicity Jones

Of everything I have done, 'The Archers' always gets the most excitement; there's a sort of uncontrollable joy from fans of the program.

Federico Garcia Lorca

Seville is a tower full of fine archers.... Under the arch of the sky, across the clear plain, she shoots the constant arrow of her river.

I wanted to go to the Arc really bad, and it bothered me that I had to eat my own words that we were going to go,

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George Eliot

Things are achieved when they are well begun. The perfect archer calls the deer his own While yet the shaft is whistling.

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

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,

It sort of looks like a place with the background filled in by buildings. And a lot of people say that it has a Dr. Seuss look to them. To me, they are just whimsical looking with colorful human archetypes that you can sort of read into them.

It's people only that you see, there's very little architecture that you see inside,

It's part of the story arc that people want to follow. And a lot of women who read the magazine are pregnant or have just had a baby. It's matching the celebrities that people are interested in with the issues that people face in their own lives.

Robert Irwin

It's my observation that gardeners and gardening for a very long time have had to take a back seat. Architects are very famous; they've got huge projects. What goes on in and around them has been relegated to a very minor role.