Famous Quotes & Sayings

In the Arctic countries and southern Europe, ... it will become harder and harder to sustain current living and consumption patterns.

In a broad sense there are a lot of people working on the elusive nirvana of cross-platform development. This is a very specific area where we firmly believe and espouse as part of our strategy to use a language and an architecture that automatically gives you cross platform.

Moby

If you're inclined to dismiss L.A. as a place of unrelenting vapidity and generic 1980s architecture, then you're doing yourself and L.A. a huge disservice, and you're just not looking hard enough.

Georg Cantor

My theory stands as firm as a rock; every arrow directed against it will return quickly to its archer. How do I know this? Because I have studied it from all sides for many years; because I have examined all objections which have ever been made against the infinite numbers; and above all because I have followed its roots, so to speak, to the first infallible cause of all created things.

Jean Nouvel

Each new situation requires a new architecture.

Candis Cayne

I came out to my parents as gay, and then I realized, you know, four or five years later, that I wasn't really happy, no relationships were working, and there was something missing in my life, and you know, I was doing drag, performing and stuff, and I realized through that arc that I was much happier doing that.

Norman Lear

Carroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker was a genius at work, God's gift to the world. He is etched permanently in our memories.

Steve Martin

I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was. . . a large Arctic region covered with ice.

He bought two other buildings on Frankford Avenue, too. But it would be nice to have more developers here. There's a lot of opportunity here. We have old buildings where the architecture and the interiors are really interesting.

James Polshek

I don't think architecture should be considered as an art form in the first instance. Whenever I say that, it makes people really angry. But this is a very political profession in the Grecian sense. I believe there have to be reasons for every building, and that the ideas should not be self-referential.

Marin Alsop

I assumed there would be an influx of women on the podium, but there are not many more at my level than there were 20 years ago. Maybe boards don't want to hire women because they don't meet the archetypal image of the maestro.

By the end of this year, you'll have a visible household name with an all-Linux architecture.

By examining the unconventional ways that architects realize that they can wear many hats in the process of positively influencing the build as well as the natural environment, aspiring young designers find themselves in a better position to succeed in a world that is always willing to reward inventiveness over business as usual.

Honesty is a long lost art form resigned to the archives of famous quotes and a few lone ducks in a pond of hypocrites.

Catherine Hardwicke

Being in construction my whole life - I was trained as an architect - I always had to work with guys. And I always did my homework and then challenged them to figure it out faster than me. They don't want to be shown up by a woman.

Carl Pope

By using the budget bill primarily as a vehicle for Arctic Refuge drilling, the Senate has dropped any pretense of working to balance the budget or reduce the deficit. The Senate is treating the budget process as a joke and a special interest gravy boat.

Pierre Pettigrew

Canada's sovereignty over Hans Island is longstanding and based on a solid foundation in international law. This includes the discovery of the Arctic islands by British explorers and subsequent devolution to Canada.

Michael Graves

I'm working on a school of architecture in China. It's rare that an architect gets to design a school of architecture, and here I get to do it. I'm so pleased that they asked me.

Mark Epstein

I must refute the implication ... that a landscape architect is a glorified gardener. A landscape architect -- unlike a landscape designer, nurseryman or gardener -- must complete a rigorous education from an accredited university program.

I personally have strong feelings about Whittier because of its architecture and the fact that Betty Friedan went there.

I remembered that my grandfather had spent his teenage years in Shanghai and that he went back after he finished medical school to work there in a hospital. So I went back into my family archives and was able to find out his exact address; it was a street that was in the French Concession.

Scott Johnson

I haven't heard a developer or an architect that is saying, 'Well, these things are no longer valid or can't be done anymore,'

Al Sharpton

I haven't done the things I've done to be in a sitcom. There were discussions between Paramount and someone else for a television series, but they have ended. I'm not interested in being Archie Bunker, I'm looking forward to becoming George Bush.

Chelsea Cain

I have traveled a fair amount, and I have visited some great cities. I love architecture and museums and castles and ruins and central markets and even double-decker bus tours. But, I am a sucker for a tropical beach.

Ellen Goodman

How did we end the summer ... stuck between a Roberts and a hard place? We've spent months poring over 60,000 pages from the National Archives and reams of personal profiles for clues about how John Roberts would rule on the highest court in land. ... The bottom line is that barring some last minute photo of John Roberts popping out of a cake at a KKK rally smoking crack, he's going to be confirmed. And if he were magically derailed, who would be next? ... John Roberts may turn out to be as far right as People for the American Way says. But he may also be as good as it gets under this administration.

Michael Imperioli

house progressive new plays in a setting inspired by the grand architecture and design of traditional 19th Century venues.

It was a work session, architects looked at the property, so they can continue doing their work back at headquarters.

It's a weather story. After experiencing an incredible Arctic weather pattern in most of December there is now evidence of a warm-up after Christmas.

It's a big wakeup call to all the record companies, the establishment, if you like. This lot caught them all napping. We are living in a completely different era, which the Arctic Monkeys have done an awful lot to bring about.

James Snyder

It's about appreciating the quality of our architecture. It's an asset that I want to be nurtured and strengthened rather than changed.

Martin Campbell

It is really the arc in which he becomes Bond. He starts out just having earned his double-0 stripes and comes out at the end the Bond we know and love.

Nancy Kress

It's very hard to write a story with only one character. This is because readers want to see your protagonist interacting with others. We come to know people through their interpersonal relations. Even Jack London, in his classic short story 'To Build A Fire,' gave his lone Arctic explorer a dog so that the character would have someone to talk to.

Carine Roitfeld

I want to be the Joan of Arc of fashion. I want to be the link between the runway and the real woman.