Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrew Motion

I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well.

Adolf Loos

Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

Antoine Predock

I didn't know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I don't even think that I knew the word for a long time. My dad funneled me into engineering because it was his background.

Antoine Predock

The body moves through space every day, and in architecture in cities that can be orchestrated. Not in a dictatorial fashion, but in a way of creating options, open-ended sort of personal itineraries within a building. And I see that as akin to cinematography or choreography, where episodic movement, episodic moments, occur in dance and film.

There is no recognition of new architecture. And it's a very important aspect of what we are doing here, because it is taking place every day.

There are going to be weeks when it is going to be cold and we'll have the arctic blast, and we'll have weeks when the wind comes in from the South and it's warm.

To build an architecture of trust, it is better to be open than to seem open and better to be trustworthy than to seem trustworthy.

There are 3,000 members of the media here this week. They're looking for interesting stories, ... Some are writing about New Orleans as a family destination. The Food Network is here right now shooting a week-long series on cuisine. House and Garden television is talking about architecture. A news crew from Japan, while covering the football game, is talking about the birthplace of jazz. This all allows New Orleans to show off all of its attributes.

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.

We're trying to create architecture comparable to a historic site. We're hopeful you'll get the sense of a resort destination.

We're not just a business that dabbles in arcade games.

We think there is an opportunity, if done correctly, for a total change in the enterprise IT implementations here and we're going to be one of the main drivers for that because of our superior architecture, ... We believe there is an opportunity for AMD64 architecture to be the de facto architecture for blades.

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.

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,

Trusted flash has to be flexible in its architecture. We support any DRM, or combination thereof, whether open or proprietary.

Isabel Lucas

I love Athena. I love all the goddesses and the archetypes and what they represent because I think they're always going to be relevant not just to women but to humanity. They're living energy. There's a lot we can still learn from them.

With a Vedic architecture house, it feels so ... it fits like a glove. It's like it's human, like a living entity, natural, not foreign.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste

With a series, you build the character as you go. When you've got a shorter project or a film, you know the overall arc from the beginning.

Dan Futterman

With a play, there's more of a definable arc because of the nature of theater: You know, there's no editing, so there's something more natural about the arc a character follows in a play. I think theater is more an actor's medium, whereas film is more a director's medium, because that's who controls the final feel of the film.

Chuck Hagel

Our foreign policy needs to support our energy, economic, defense and domestic policies. It all falls within the arch of national interest. There will be windows of opportunity, but they will open and close quickly.

Chick Corea

When I hear the piano played in a compositional way, like in a songwriter's way in a compositional way, there's a certain arc to that that I love.

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.