Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Bryson

We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.

Billie Jean King

Pressure is a privilege ... it's what you do with it that matters.

Ayn Rand

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

Brion James

Wake up - time to die.

Alec Baldwin

Only one thing counts in this life - get them to sign on the line that is dotted.

Albert Einstein

There two things that are infinite, human stupidity and the universe, I don't know about the universe

Adolf Loos

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

Anne Lamott

You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into becoming yourself.

Clint Eastwood

You see, in this world, there's two kinds of people, my friend - those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig.

Charles Darwin

I am not the least afraid to die

Augustus

Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit!

Eleanor Roosevelt

America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, bad-ass speed.

Alan Cohen

Truly creative people care a little about what they have done, and a lot about what they are doing. Their driving focus is the life force that surges in them now.

Alberto Tomba

I used to have a wild night with three women until 5am., but I am getting older. In the Olympic village here, I will live it up with five women, but only until 3am.

Daniel Libeskind

We live in a time of renaissance ... cities are coming back to life, after a long neglect.

Daniel Libeskind

Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.

David Ayer

That's the world of policing. I've met some bad-ass female cops, who are very cool people.

Alicia Keys

All women are NATURALLY, bad ass!

Bob Hadfield

Our policy is to provide water for the orderly development of Carson Valley.

Elliot Krieger

Our relationship with the union, once the order was put in place, has been pretty good,

M. C. Escher

Order is repetition of units.Chaos is multiplicity without rythm.

Shaukat Aziz

Step by step, we are getting there. It has to be done in an orderly way,

Gary Thayer

Manufacturing is expanding, but not as broadly as in November. There was weakness in new orders and employment.

Barry Lopez

To allow mystery, which is to say to yourself, 'There could be more...things we don't understand,' is not to damn knowledge....It is to permit yourself an extraordinary, freedom: someone else does not have to be wrong in order that you might be right...This tolerance for mystery invigorates the imagination; and it is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.

B. F. Skinner

Going out of style isn't a natural process, but a manipulated change which destroys the beauty of last year's dress in order to make it worthless.

Bill Crawford

In order to become more influential with those who are resistant to our point of view, we must be willing to start with what is influencing them.

Big Pun

I'm as wicked as Hitler's first born, cause of me, lot of old ladies purses gone.