Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Graves

I don't care what people call me,labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people.

John Portman

Inspired by the project's unique blending of commercial and cultural interests, the goal was to create an iconic, yet pragmatic design.

John Portman

It is through accomplishment that man makes his contribution and contribution is life's greatest reward.

Norton Juster

It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to be written, in a way that it had to be written. If you know what I mean.

Minoru Yamasaki

The interesting thing about Oberlin College as it differs from other more urban schools or universities is that it is a walking campus.

Minoru Yamasaki

The view outside was much more important than the exhibits.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll Le Corbusier go write four books about it.

Daniel Burnham

Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably will not themselves be realized.

Minoru Yamasaki

So I test all the buildings that I do by asking myself whether this building was possible, could have been built 50 years ago or a hundred years ago.

Jeff Kinney

Kids and adults have a difference of opinion when it comes to what constitutes legitimate reading. Adults often push books that they loved as children, which, ironically, were often books that their parents weren't particularly keen on.

Stephen Jones

Kid books can get cute and a-d-o-r-a-b-l-e. Garfield says cute rots the intellect. Don't forget the name of the cat! You pick up cats the wrong way and they stop being adorable...they become Scratch.

James Patterson

Kids say the No. 1 reason they don't read more is that they can't find books they like. Freedom of choice is a key to getting them motivated and excited.

Japanese Proverb

Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back an ass

Spike Jonze

Kids are so fiercely opinionated, that if they love the Harry Potter books and they go see the movie, they'll be the first to say, 'That was wrong! They didn't get that right!' They're storytellers themselves. They're critics. They're going to have the critical opinion.

Jan Nash

Just look at the shelves of any bookstore in any airport, and you see how much people love crime and mysteries, how much they love solving puzzles.

Sophie Hannah

Agatha Christie's writing is incredibly skillful because her books are incredibly intellectually puzzling and challenging.

Mark Patton

It is a great thing for him to have read so many books. You just don't usually hear that about a first-grader.

Robertson Davies

The people who are always monkeying with these great books to make them fully (comprehensible) have no friend in me, for in their realm the fully comprehensible is not worth comprehending

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Claire Tomalin

Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

Sara Sheridan

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.

Eleanor Catton

I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children.

Brian Keene

Everything can be grist for the muse. Sometimes, writers draw on personal experiences. 'Ghoul' was just that.

Marianne Williamson

I'm an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career.

Jonathan Evison

Too many writers of fiction don't give the reader enough credit.

Sarah Pinborough

I think in some ways, you end up with more interesting storytelling with series, because if you've written yourself into a corner with something in book 1, you have to be cleverer to get out of it.

David Dein

He has written his own part in Arsenal's history,

Debbie Harry

Something's that written out is okay, but it's not always a clear indication of what a person means.

Mark Johnson

It's been unbelievable. We couldn't have written a better script.

John Drinkwater

The written word is everything.

John Lydon

Every single lyric I've ever written I meant.

Sevyn Streeter

You should find the dopest producer in your area, and that producer is always going to want songs written to his beat.

Bram Cohen

Up to now, we'd get a written notification ... Now it will be expedited.

Felipe Alou

What a script. Wow. It was like it was written to be that way.