Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sean Connery

Some age. Others mature.

Nancy Banks Smith

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

Helen Keller

Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free.

George S. Patton

Battle... brings out all that is best.

Sally Ride

Weightless is a great equalizer.

Nicki Minaj

Bad as I wanna be. She aint bad, she a sad little wannabe.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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

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.

Olivia Wilde

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.

Earl Wilson

I've been around, and I see what other cities are doing, and I think, 'Why not us, we're a proud people,'

Ben Nicholson

I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city.

Jane Jacobs

The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.

Charles Bukowski

I am too sick to lay down the sidewalks frighten me the whole damned city frightens me, what I will become what I have become frightens me.

David Nicholls

This might sound really foolish, but when I came to Edinburgh in 1988 I had spent nearly all my life living south of Bristol, and I was just amazed that a city like Edinburgh was actually in the British isles.

John Hickenlooper

We are, by many measures, one of the more diverse cities in the country, growing more diverse all the time, and one of the more harmonious in terms of how we live together.

Andy Goldsworthy

People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city.

Andrew Natsios

Many, many large cities have old, crumbling infrastructure that have got to be dealt with in the nearest future, or they're going to be in serious trouble. They'll be unlivable if they don't do something.

Allen Tate

Struck in the wet mire Four thousand leagues from the ninth buried city I thought of Troy, what we had built her for.

Brandon Sanderson

It's actually a rather romantic and dramatic story --- one I would eagerly tell you, except for the fact that I recently forgot it, based on it being far too long and having not enough decapitations.

Brandon Sanderson

I love to do what I do. So, I do work long hours.

Antoinette Perry

I had an interest, for as long as I could remember, in theater.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

The broad liberal objective is a balanced and flexible "mixed economy," thus seeking to occupy that middle ground between capitalism and socialism whose viability has so long been denied by both capitalists and socialists.

Brian Tracy

You can accomplish virtually anything if you want it badly enough and if you are willing to work long enough and hard enough;

Brian Andreas

You're not going to see people like this again for a long time, he said and I said I always saw people like this & he looked at me for a moment and said, You're not from around here, are you?

Jane Goodall

Chimpanzees have given me so much. The long hours spent with them in the forest have enriched my life beyond measure. What I have learned from them has shaped my understanding of human behavior, of our place in nature.

Bryant H. McGill

Your health is a long-range investment that will pay-off when you need it most.

Carson McCullers

The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person. All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.