Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tadao Ando

I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing.

Richelle Mead

If you touch me, I said pleasantly, "I'll provide you with the ability to see if you can heal yourself. Then we'd see how bad ass you really are."

Renzo Piano

One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.

Trey Gowdy

Your memo is trumping a Congressional statute. You don't have the discretion on whether to follow the law or not.

Trey Gowdy

I can tell you this. It is not going to be evenly constituted and when she was Speaker Pelosi, she certainly showed no interests in having an equal number of Republicans and Democrats.

Trey Gowdy

The same Constitution that allows her the right, if she wants to, to sit there and say nothing, allows these groups the right to petition their government for redress.

Trey Gowdy

What do we do with a president who can basically change what Congress passed by attaching a letter saying I don't agree with this part or that part?

Trey Gowdy

What is our recourse, Mr. Speaker? What is our remedy?

Trey Gowdy

You know, in the oath that brand-new citizens take, it contains six different references to 'the law.' If it's good enough for us to ask brand-new citizens to affirm their devotion to the law, is it too much to ask that the president do the same?

Trey Gowdy

Well, I certainly hope the Democrats participate. I continue to think that some things transcend politics like the murder of four of our fellow citizens and whether or not you trust government. That is not a red or blue issue. That is an American issue. As for whether or not they boycott, I hope they don't.

Trey Gowdy

Congress is supposed to provide oversight, the voters are supposed to provide oversight. And you [the media] were supposed to provide oversight. That's why you have special liberties and that's why you have special protections.

Trey Gowdy

These last few years we've seen an unacceptable abuse of power, having a president whose priority is expanding his own power.

Trey Gowdy

No law can give Congress a backbone if it refuses to stand off as the coequal branch the Constitution made it.

Trey Gowdy

If a president can change some laws, can he change ALL laws? Can he change election laws? Can he change discrimination laws? Are there any laws, under your theory, that he actually HAS to enforce?

Trey Gowdy

I am not surprised that the President of the United States called this a phony scandal. I'm not surprised that Secretary Clinton asked, "What difference does it make?" I'm not even surprised that Jay Carney said that Benghazi happened 'a long time ago.' I'm just surprised at how many people bought it.

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.

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.

Keith Haring

When it is working, you completely go into another place, you're tapping into things that are totally universal, completely beyond your ego and your own self. That's what it's all about.

Ronald Reagan

I hope you're all Republicans.

Rem Koolhaas

Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance.

T. Boone Pickens

The first billion is a helluva lot harder.

Sylvester Stallone

A lot of guys don't want to admit that they have a propensity for generosity and for violence.