Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Flanagan

Keep practicing," he told her."Until I get it right?" she said. But he corrected her."No. Until you don't get it wrong.

John Flanagan

An ordinary archer practices until he gets it right. A ranger practices until he never gets it wrong.

Emanuel Ax

We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud.

The Lord s Name is my immortal, unfathomable, imperishable Creator Lord, the Architect of Destiny.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet

Heinrich Heine

The arrow belongs not to the archer when it has once left the bow; the word no longer belongs to the speaker when it has once passed his lips, especially when it has been multiplied by the press.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Architecture is crystallized music.

Michael Fitzpatrick

The latest national Weather Service outlook is forecasting below-normal temperatures through February 21st, but an arctic cold blast is not expected.

Cesare Beccaria

The lawgiver ought to be gentle, lenient and humane. The lawgiver ought to be a skilled architect who raises his building on the foundation of self-love, and the interest of all ought to be the product of the interests of each.

Adam Christopher

The L.A Trilogy is a series of three novels starring Ray, a robot detective, and his boss, a computer called Googol. Set in an alternative version of 1960s Los Angeles, each book will be more or less standalone but together will form an overarching story arc with 'Brisk Money' as the origin story.

Frank Lloyd Wright

I know we can't have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord.

Frank Lloyd Wright

If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Frank Lloyd Wright

No stream rises higher than its source

Geena Davis

The main thing about archery is a battle with yourself. You can ruin it all. Once you have learned the technique, the point is to recreate the perfect technique over and over and over.

Geena Davis

Archers are pretty focused.

Geena Davis

Archery is something that I took up later and didn't know I had a natural aptitude for.

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.

Leonard Baskin

Architecture should be dedicated to keeping the outside out and the inside in.

Rem Koolhaas

I wanted to disconnect from contemporary architecture

Rem Koolhaas

The word 'celebrity' and the word 'architect' are basically incompatible.

Tim Gunn

I don't know why I've always been so captivated by architecture.

Tim O'Reilly

Architecture trumps licensing any time.

Lewis Mumford

Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one.

Shirley MacLaine

You are the architect of your personal experience.

Steven Morrissey

Now I know how Joan of Arc felt.

Joseph Pilates

Everyone is the architect of their own happiness

Joshua Prince-Ramus

It’s time for architecture to do things again, not just represent things.

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?

Minoru Yamasaki

We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.