Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The visual architecture of 'Biutiful' is the most sophisticated of all the films I have directed.

They look like landscaping scenes. When kids aren't on them, they look like the architecture of the park.

John Wagner

They helped us in the beginning, even with securing a bid for financing. They worked up all the pre-planning and then got all the subcontractors and architects put together to actually build it. They were experienced, professional and easy to communicate with.

Deborah Roberts

There was a certain creative intelligence that flowered in New Orleans, and that creative intelligence expressed itself in music and architecture, in food, in cuisine, and in our way of being, in our way of life,

Charlie Cox

There's something very special about seeing history so clearly in front of you through that architecture that you just don't get in the U.S. If I was asked to choose where I'd most like to live, I would always choose London.

There's no residential building being built in West Palm Beach that has fabulous architecture. Many people buy the units, but they don't love them. I thought we'd bring another level of sophistication to the market.

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Nancy Johnson

I started shooting out of interest in archery and there wasn't an archery range close enough for me to shoot at.

I spent months digging through our archives looking for unique photos of Glacier National Park. With the help of former editor Brian Kennedy and Patsi Morton (Ruder's daughter) I was able to come up with a truly unique book. Some of these gems haven't seen print in 60 years. Some were never published at all. This book was a lot of fun to put together. About half of the photos in the book are from the Ruder era, which only makes sense, since Ruder, the founder of the Hungry Horse News owned the newspaper for more than half of its 60 years.

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We don't want one that's like everything else. It should be something innovative. If you look back at some of the architects of the past, none of the houses were exactly alike.

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.

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.

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.

Helen McCrory

I had a great start in television; the first thing I did was an episode of 'Performance' called 'The Entertainer' with Michael Gambon playing Archie Rice.

If there is any programming language architect on the planet who has the experience and insight to pull this off, he'd be on short list.

It has the shape of a sailboat, right in line with the architecture of the river and reminiscent of the old slave ships coming to America.

Anika Noni Rose

I think New Orleans is such a beautiful city. It looks like a fairytale when you walk through the French Quarter or the Garden District. There is such a lush sense of color, style, architecture - and the people themselves.

Joseph Kosinski

I realized that I loved using computers to create something, but being an architect just wasn't going to keep me interested. The idea of a life spent obsessing over bathroom details for an Upper East Side penthouse was pretty depressing.

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

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.

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.

Raymond Blanc

I had the archetypal French bucolic upbringing, in a peasant village in deepest Burgundy.

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.