Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Graves

I taught at Princeton for 39 years, and the school of architecture on the campus is the worst building on the campus.

Michael Holland

He is the single most successful architect of a financial services colossus of our time.

John Carmack

Hardware wise, there's a lot of marketing hype about the consoles. A lot of it really needs to be taken with grains of salt about exactly how powerful it is, ... The Xbox 360 has an architecture where you essentially have got three processors and they're all running the same memory pool and they're all synchronized, and cache coherent, and you can spawn off another thread in your program and make it go do some work. That's kind of the best case and it's still really difficult to turn into faster performance or getting it to get more stuff done in a game title.

David Mohney

I think it's deeper than architecture. Design has taken on a new importance in life.

Dylan Walsh

L.A. is so much about ratings and box office; that defines everything. And here, of course it's important, but it's not part of the culture - there's too much else going on in New York. They're not going to let one industry monopolize your attention, you know? You're likely to have best friends who are architects or newspaper reporters.

Don Tapscott

There is a fundamental change taking place in terms of how corporations create value and arguably, in terms of the core architecture of the corporation. I think it's the biggest change in a century in the ways that companies build relationships and interact with other entities, institutions in the economy and in society and arguably, the nature of the corporation itself.

Romesh Gunesekera

To come to England in the 1970s was to return to this strange other-world of half-known history. I found the imperial architecture curiously familiar: the post office, the town hall, the botanic gardens.

Jerry Colangelo

I think Toronto is an ideal situation. There's good ownership. There's talent. There's cap room. He has the chance to be the architect of something special.

Stacey Quandt

It is only a matter of time before IBM focuses on a delivering a certified LAMP stack. Also HP is likely to augment its open-source reference architecture with more value-added software and services,

Andrew Sorensen

Jack Pratt has the character, the leadership skills and the qualities to inspire confidence and optimism.

Robin Hobb

I would say that many of the characters in my stories do not live in true poverty - they are not out on the street; they are not wondering if there will be anything to eat in the next week. They are people who are at the lower echelons of the economic strata.

George Bodenheimer

Keith Jackson is a man of great character and a legendary broadcaster. For decades, his unmistakable style defined college football for millions of fans. While we hate to say goodbye, we understand his decision and wish him the very best.

Sela Ward

I swore I'd never do another hour show... until I read the first page of this script and I just hooked into Lily's character so much and the writing.

John Searles

I take stuff from real life and try to make a character out of it. And I try to live the world of the characters a little bit.

Anna Friel

I also like the fact that the character isn't a typical footballer's wife, she doesn't need the bling and being at the forefront of everything.

Gillian Anderson

I also respond very strongly to characters I have not done before ... something I can really sink my teeth into, and what's scary, and what terrifies me, because that's where I need to go.

Jonathan Davis

He was a guy who really liked Sinatra, stuck at this alternative-rock radio station, ... So we had the character record his own versions of these (alternative) songs. That was the original inspiration for Cheese.

Joel Thomas

He definitely has some character to him. Don't get me wrong, when he gets out here, he works.

William Shakespeare

I do the wrong, and first begin to brawl. The secret mischiefs that I set abroach I lay unto the grievous charge of others.

Claud Cockburn

A wartime Minister of Information is compelled, in the national interest, to such continuous acts of duplicity that even his natural hair must grow to resemble a wig.

John Sterling

One dupe is as impossible as one twin.

Margaret Mitchell

Now he saw that she understood entirely too well and he felt the usual masculine indignation at the duplicity of women. Added to it was the usual masculine disillusionment in discovering that a woman has a brain.

George W. Romney

Extremism in defense of liberty is not a vice, but I denounce political extremism, of the left or the right, based on duplicity, falsehood, fear, violence and threats when they endanger liberty.

Bill Vaughan

Even the world, that despises simplicity, does not profess to approve of duplicity.

Charles Caleb Colton

Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.

Foxy Brown

Jacki-O proved you far from a fighter/ ... I'm not gonna come at you, I'm gonna come at your ghost writer.

W. Hull

Keep it out of the middle of the field, take it up the sidelines as far as you can and then shoot it at the net and hope it goes in off someone.

Joe Gibbs

I take responsibility for all of it. It all rests with me. We don't have to look real far to find somebody. I'm to blame.

Steve Hammond

I think it's a first step. As far as we're concerned, we'd go for a three-buck limit.

Asa Hutchinson

I think it is very disappointing. Whenever you talk about the justice system, politics should be as far as imaginable from the outcome.

Zach Malvik

I think in the back of our minds we thought it was possible. That's just all of us being competitors and never saying we can't do it. I do think it's a surprise to all of us that we made it this far and accomplished our goal.

Jimmy Dowell

He knows what's going on as far as how I want to play the game. He's probably one of our most experienced players. He's very good at placing the ball.

Howard Davidowitz

has been trying very hard to do that for a long time. So far they have been left with a giant loss of market share.

Adnan Pachachi

has been far greater than we had expected.

Danielle Sautter

It is just horrible to think someone would do something like that.

Harold Nicholas

If you were black, you experienced (prejudice). It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it.

Kevin Williamson

I had this horrible teacher who told me that I would never be a writer,

Doug Aitken

I'm not a journalist; I'm probably a horrible interviewer. The one small thing I have is I'm curious, and I'm interested in who I'm with.

Emmanuelle Chriqui

I tell the most horrible jokes.

Greg Massoni

It just was a horrible vote, and disgraceful he voted the way he did, as way too many legislators did in the House.

Jim Morton

It was horrible but explain-able. The whole place was a wreck.

Tom Ford

It's like everything in your life is wonderful, but you have so much wonderful - this is all going to sound horrible - but when you have so much wonderful, it isn't wonderful because you don't actually have time to enjoy it.

Karin Slaughter

Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life.

Rob Spencer

He lied so the plot could proceed unimpeded.

Patrick Fitzgerald

He lied about it afterward, under oath and repeatedly,

David Garrick

Here lies Nolly Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll, Who wrote like an angel, and talkd like poor Poll.

Dale Lennon

Going into spring ball, the strength of the program may lie on the offensive side. It's going to be a pretty competitive spring on the offensive side of the ball.

Ed Garland

His oath should have been, 'I Tony Harwood swear to lie, I say you should reject Tony Harwood 100 percent. Throw him out. He ain't worth nothing.

Cassandra Gash

I don't know where the responsibility lies, but I know I've done everything I can do.

Mark Twain

I am different from Washington. I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't.

Gore Vidal

He will lie even when it is inconvenient: the sign of the true artist.

Gerald Smith

He doesn't even know when he's telling lies anymore, he's lied so much in this story, in this case.

David Makovsky

This is a consequential election, with monumental events. It's all about one idea: borders.

Michael Ramsey

This is a monumental problem. It overshadows all the other problems we have.

Huston Street

That says everything right there. That's how monumental that win was.

Cillian Murphy

He needs the girl. It's that simple. There's no question of morality for him.

Tullian Tchividjian

Moralism doesn't produce morality; it produces immorality.

Vincent Van Gogh

Study, analyse the social structure - that's always far more effective than moralising.

Joseph Addison

There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.

Joseph Addison

I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.

James Anthony Froude

The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

James Anthony Froude

Morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command, without which it would cease to be.

Mahatma Gandhi

Moral result can only be produced by moral restraints.

Emmy Rossum

I loved getting to investigate the grey areas of morality.

Lorne Michaels

I think you're seeing the wave of the future.

Buddy Bell

We told Peralta when we sent him down that we'd probably be seeing him soon. We just didn't think it'd be this soon.

Kevin Sheridan

Remember, this has only been operational for 90 days. What you're seeing is version 1.1.

Steve Godsil

I really like seeing all the different gyms. That makes the travel fun.

Sam Stovall

In general, we are seeing things that look a lot better.

Carl Anderson

I keep seeing them go up, up, up.

John Criscuolo

I just can't support seeing any teachers walk out the door. They're our backbone.

Joe Thornton

It's nice. It's different waking up and seeing sunshine.

Michael Goodman

It's sort of like you're seeing Yahoo spread its wings and be more of a portal that ties into the TV in your home.

William James

The aim of science is always to reduce complexity to simplicity.

Rob Bell

We need to return to the simplicity that God is love.

Wayne Dyer

You're here for a reason and it's not to hoard a lot of physical stuff.

Willard Van Orman Quine

A curious thing about the ontological problem is its simplicity. It can be put into three Anglo-Saxon monosyllables: 'What is there?' It can be answered, moreover, in a word--'Everything'--and everyone will accept this answer as true.

Saint Francis de Sales

In everything, love simplicity.

Zhang Ziyi

I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.

William Strunk, Jr.

The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.

Wendell Berry

So friends, every day do something that won't compute.

W. Somerset Maugham

Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.

John Abraham

I don't even see the point. He's like a stranger to me.

Renny Harlin

Several times we were stranded in strange places without any money and with our credit cards cancelled - trapped in a hotel that we couldn't check out of because we had no money to check out.

Rose Macaulay

Nothing, perhaps, is strange, once you have accepted life itself, the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness.

Truman Capote

You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.

Rick Riordan

Sometimes wisdom came from strange places, even from giant teenaged goldfish.

Sara Blakely

I knew that I wanted to start my own business. I knew that I wanted to work for myself. I was no stranger to the word no. You just have to keep going.

William Faulkner

Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks.

Richard Rodriguez

There are things so deeply personal that they can be revealed only to strangers.

Upton Sinclair

Over the vast plain I wander, observing a thousand strange and incredible and terrifying manifestations of the Bootstrap-lifting impulse.

Ron Paul

I would think they're going to study it a little more closely.

Richard Baxter

We must study as hard how to live well as how to preach well.

Richard Baxter

Preach to yourselves the sermons which you study, before you preach them to others.

Rick Warren

It seems we are often guilty of being more interested in defending God's Word than in studying it.

Rudy Giuliani

Quit Iraq Study Group to avoid politicizing it.

Rodney Mullen

I like to study a lot of math, physics, and the Bible, too. For me, they all show that there's a lot more to things than we see.

Jake Gyllenhaal

I started to realize I love study, I love the study of human behavior.

Charles Handy

This is just a preliminary study of this facility,

John Gresham Machen

In many respects, my work is very enjoyable, for I seem to get on pretty well with the fellows and enjoy the work of instruction as well as my own studies

Graham Elliot

Dining should be something that isn't always taken extremely seriously.

Tony Stewart

I'm scared of saying something that may get taken the wrong way.

George Best

It has been a long week but things have taken a turn for the best. I am very optimistic.

Richelle Mead

Well," he said, clearly enjoying my confusion. "It was actually for two souls, since you and Seth were both saved. But even if it wasn't, it still would've been worth it. Do you know the price of one soul, Georgina? It's beyond rubies and diamonds, beyond any mortal reckoning. If it had taken me centuries, if it had taken a dozen more angels to help me, it all would have been worth it.

Richelle Mead

I’ve come to ask you where Seth is.” "Funny,” said Andrea. “We were going to ask you the same thing.” I was taken aback. “How would I know?” They both just stared. "I don’t!

Ron Chernow

A prudent silence will frequently be taken for wisdom and a sentence or two cautiously thrown in will sometimes gain the palm of knowledge, while a man well informed but indiscreet and unreserved will not uncommonly talk himself out of all consideration and weight. (Alexander Hamilton's 'thesis on discretion' written to his son James shortly before his fatal duel with Burr.)

Tryon Edwards

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.

Raymond Chandler

What greater prestige can a man like me (not too gifted, but very understanding) have than to have taken a cheap, shoddy and utterly lost kind of writing, and have made of it something that intellectuals claw each other about?

Willie Morris

I came across a photograph of him not long ago... his black face, the long snout sniffing at something in the air, his tail straight and pointing, his eyes flashing in some momentary excitement. Looking at a faded photograph taken more than forty years before, even as a grown man, I would admit I still missed him.

Thomas Sharp

In terms of I-69, it's a pretty bread-and-butter interstate,

Mark Schmidt

In terms of effort, it was there. In terms of execution, it wasn't. Too many turnovers. Too many breakdowns. We had them on the ropes. We just couldn't finish.

James Blake

In terms of writing more club tracks, writing more electronically influenced - I feel like it was all electronically influenced, but now that influence has come to me in a different way.

Mike Palmerino

In terms of the outlook, there is no significant precipitation in sight.

Ralph Acampora

In terms of the Dow, that's around 7,400-7,500,

Jesse Palmer

In terms of my time, it's not today,

Gia Coppola

I knew I wanted to make a movie that hadn't really existed in a while in terms of being a teenager.

Dana Rohrabacher

I'm aghast at what American corporations have done in terms of trading American technology.

Camille Strachan

The war may be over in terms of any wholesale demolition.

James Park

Today is a very directionless market, ... It is really quiet. There's not much going on.

Donald Tusk

Today I must tell myself I did not make it.

Jim Haslett

Today he's sore, so he didn't practice. He'll be fine. He'll play.

Tony Franklin

I thought we got a lot done offensively. Omar showed today why he has become the top quarterback.

Rachel Kyono

I think that I wouldn't be where I am today without going through the program.

Graeme Smith

He had a re-scan today and it doesn't look good. It would pretty much look like he's going home.

William Safire

Took me a while to get to the point today, but that is because I did not know what the point was when I started.

Virender Sehwag

Today if I'm a cricketer it is because of Sachin Tendulkar. Else, I would never have picked up a bat. He's the reason behind me playing cricket

Woodrow Wilson

Today's greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.

Tom Ferguson

I think (the Fringe) is wonderful because . . . this is not 'Annie Get Your Gun,'

Mary Campbell

We feel it is a wonderful program, and they do wonderful things.

Jim Rash

I think what's wonderful is that 'Community' has always had its voice, has always had it's vision, and that started from the very beginning.

Anne Murphy

We can have all these wonderful things in place,

Vincente Minnelli

I see wonderful films by Bertolucci, Visconti, and Fellini.

Robert Caro

As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life.

Roald Dahl

Come right up close to me and I will show you something wonderful.

Vasily Grossman

Ivan tells Anna: "I used to imagine that being embraced by a woman . . . as something so wonderful that it would make me forget everthing . . . [But] happiness, it turns out, will be to share with you the burden I can't share with anyone else.

Robert Stack

It's all malarky; even the wonderful part is malarky.