Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michelangelo

It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.

Theodore Roosevelt

Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot, but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.

Louis Kahn

The Sun does not realise how wonderful it is until after a room is made.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.

Sean Connery

Some age. Others mature.

Oscar Niemeyer

Here, then, is what I wanted to tell you of my architecture. I created it with courage and idealism, but also with an awareness of the fact that what is important is life, friends, and attempting to make this unjust world a better place in which to live.

Margaret Atwood

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

Zaha Hadid

Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space ... On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's also about pleasure.

Ronald Reagan

I hope you're all Republicans.

Warren Ellis

What? I bring joy to the world. I am filled with mirth and sunlight. Also, I am Batman.

Sally Ride

I love the John Glenn model... I may call NASA in 25 years or so, and see if they'd like to send me to Mars.

Sally Ride

The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it.

Sally Ride

Weightless is a great equalizer.

Sally Ride

I've discovered that half the people would love to go into space and there's no need to explain it to them. The other half can't understand and I couldn't explain it to them. If someone doesn't know why, I can't explain it.

Sally Ride

I suggest taking the high road and have a little sence of humour and let things roll off your back. I think that's very important.

Sally Ride

I would like to be remembered as someone who was not afraid to do what she wanted to do, and as someone who took risks along the way in order to achieve her goals.

Nancy Banks Smith

In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.

Genghis Khan

If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you

Nicki Minaj

I bob and weave em, hit em wit that Mayweather JAB.

John Ruskin

When we build, let us think that we build forever.

Naomi Wolf

A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.

Napoleon Hill

Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.

Joan Crawford

Dammit... Don't you dare ask God to help me.

Louis Sullivan

Form ever follows function.