Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ann Coulter

Like the archers of Agincourt, John O'Neal and the 254 Swiftboat Veterans took down their own haughty Frenchman.

Thom Browne

Since Brooks Brothers is a 189-year-old company, there are plenty of references and inspirations I can draw from their archives and catalogs. The wearer of Black Fleece may not be all that different from mine, in that I imagine that it would be someone who is a true individual, and independent thinker. This is for both men and women.

Where he stands, the Arch Fear in a visible form, / Yet the strong man must go.

Stephen Bayley

'Where do architects and designers get their ideas?'' The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it mere casuistry to distinguish between tradition and plagiarism?

Stephen Bayley

''Where do architects and designers get their ideas?'' The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it mere casuistry to distinguish between tradition and plagiarism?

Nikki Reed

My dad designed houses and was an architect for many years.

Frank Gehry

There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture. But that doesn't hold up.

Patch Adams

I make me. At 18, I decided I wasn't going to have an unconstructed self ever. I was going to be the composer, the designer, the architect of me. It's been really fun.

Peter Zumthor

I work a little bit like a sculptor. When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about paper, it's not about forms. It's about space and material.

Peter Zumthor

Architecture has its place in the concrete world. This is where it exists. This is where it makes its statement.

Paul Keating

You get one chance to do something about native title. You get perhaps one chance in your life to do something about a republic. You get one chance, your chance, to build a piece of the political architecture in the Pacific. I wasn't going to give those up.

Charles Jencks

Mies van der Rohe's architecture and modern architecture in general suffered from not only being repetitive, but not explaining to the populous what the different rooms were for.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form.

Heber J. Grant

My most earnest prayer is that every man and every woman will get it into his or her heart that they are in very deed the architects of their lives.

Whether it catches up to what the world sees or record companies or radio or everybody wants - you can't be the architect of that.

Gail Carriger

Most people in archeology find their specialties in strange and unique ways. I always wanted to do archaeology, and then the time came for me to actually be in the field, and it was excruciatingly boring. Excavation is really, really boring.

Aldous Huxley

Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins.

We basically opened the building to the public, and were visited by physicists and architects and musicians and sound healers,

XML by itself is not a solution -- it's a key ingredient to enable a richer type of solution, ... What you need is an architecture where you can take XML data and integrate it with various applications -- and that's what we're offering with BizTalk.

Sara Sheridan

Living in Edinburgh, I consider myself particularly lucky - we have the biggest book festival in the world, a plethora of fascinating libraries and museums, and some of the greatest architecture in Europe.

Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.

Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also fails, grasping the shadow instead of the substance.

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

James Wyatt

Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture.

John Scott

Poetry is a double-edged sword. You learn to use language at its most intense - but this is far too intense for prose fiction. I've been teaching myself to progressively strip the 'poetry' away - the bulk of The Architect is told in very simple prose.

One thing Arch had was a lot of patience. The kids never quit. Arch never cut a kid. If you came out, you would get a suit.

Ninety percent of what I build is made of home salvaged architecture ? pieces of a house or a business. Every one is different ? they're one-of-a-kind pieces, you'd say.

James Stewart

I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I'd done theatricals in college, but I'd done them because it was fun.

One of the things that our architects are strongly trying to do is to maintain that open feel that we have. We are not an inner-city campus.

One of legendary architect Pete Dye's most celebrated courses, Teeth of the Dog is named for a local term describing the island's jagged-edged coral reefs. The Caribbean-bordering par 3s are the Dog's main draw and down on the fifth and the seventh holes, you're so close to the water that you can feel the spray.

John Updike

The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness.

David Ogden Stiers

There are moments when you wish you had had two more rehearsals, but the architecture is there, and the playing is often more than competent.

Mack Brown

I am really excited about the fact that Ohio State is honoring Woody Hayes while Coach Royal will be there. I think that is really cool. I am hoping that Earl Campbell goes up and sits with Archie Griffin. That is good stuff for college football fans.