Bad Ass Quotations

I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

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.

I'm not sure that acting is something for a grown man to be doing.

Life is never easy for those who dream.

Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.

If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting.

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

I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it.

I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

Remember this: your body is your slave; it works for you.

I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all.

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.

Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

You are remembered for the rules you break.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

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

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

I wouldn't say I'm a feminist, but I don't like girls pretending to be stupid because it's easier.

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.

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

Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.

If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.

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

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

Sexy doesn't have to come with the price tag of being dumb.

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

Once you figure out what respect tastes like, it tastes better than attention. But you have to get there.

And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

Life is half spent before we know what it is.

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.

My dad raised me with some good advice: 'Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many friends, but you'll never have enemies, because people will always know where you're coming from.'

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

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

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

To be a feminist is to be alive

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.

People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we're still at the mercy of nature.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

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

Just keep coming home to yourself, you are the one who you've been waiting for.

The desire to reach for the sky runs very deep in the human psyche.

I was a martial artist. So, for me to be able to do all of the fights is a blast. It's so fun. It's like dancing, but more bad-ass. I really enjoy doing it.

Why not? After all, it belongs to him.

Designers think everything done by someone else is awful, and that they could do it better themselves, which explains why I designed my own living room carpet, I suppose.

Where the hell do you put the bayonet?

Aging is not 'lost youth,' but a new stage of opportunity and strength. It's a different stage of life, and if you are going to pretend it's youth, you are going to miss it. You are going to miss the surprises, the possibilities, and the evolution that we are just beginning to know about because there are no role models, no guideposts, and no signs.

Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith there is no anxiety and no doubt - just absolute confidence in yourself.

The process begins with the individual woman’s acceptance that American women, without exception, are socialized to be racist, classist and sexist, in varying degrees, and that labeling ourselves feminists does not change the fact that we must consciously work to rid ourselves of the legacy of negative socialization.

A design isn't finished until someone is using it.

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

I'm a kind person, I'm kind to everyone, but if you are unkind to me, then kindness is not what you'll remember me for

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

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.

I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women's movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history when men - insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchal idea - have become dangerous to children and other living things, themselves included

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.

Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.

The eyes healed in a matter of a few days, as eyes heal quickly, mine just heal faster than anybody else. I was back in the strip club hours later rehabbing my eyes.

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

Now, Bad Ass, you run your mouth about Summerslam. Well, here's the situation. The Rock says this, if the Rock hits you he'll kill you. If he misses, the wind behind the punch will give you pneumonia and you'll die anyway, so the choice is yours jabroni.

It's easy to be a bad ass, it's easy to act like a bad ass, easy to act like a tough guy, it's easy to be a diva, and it's easy to be self absorbed. The list goes on and on but to me, I always just find it more important to be nice and kind.

Being a true bad ass has no weight or gender requirement - just 100% commitment to greatness.

Home is where you hang your architect.

All women are NATURALLY, bad ass!

There is a danger when every building has to look spectacular; to look like it is changing the world. I don't care how a building looks if it means something, not to architects, but to the people who use it.

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

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

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

I think I was born to be a figure skater, I think it was fate, and I thank God for letting it happen.

Viktor Petrenko and I met at a competition, where I beat him completely accidentally. I felt so embarrassed in front of my idol.

I can skate beautifully. While performing on ice I always try to please the audience and to win as well. Being artistic is very important to get the audience on your side. As for a competition, you can't win without strong technical content.

I'm a wealthy man now. I've got a flat, a car, I have enough money to buy food. I skate to make the people happy. If somebody skates to earn money, I don't care. I skate for the people. Besides, it's pleasant to supply Russia with gold medals.

I try not to think about marks, the first place or gold medal. The most important thing is to show what you are capable of on ice. The rest will come on its own.