Famous Quotes & Sayings

Preston Sturges

I worked out a rather deep-dish theory defining the theater as a form of architecture rather than a form of literature.

Philip Treacy

There's a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face; it's like architecture or mathematics.

Imelda May

I would love to work with Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, B.B. King. I'd love to do something with Arctic Monkeys, Miles Kane, and The Last Shadow Puppets. If I got a call from Juliette Lewis or PJ Harvey, or Chrissie Hynde, that'd be a thrill.

David Perry

Microsoft built the architecture that made it (the hole) possible.

Whole Foods is going to give identity to the neighborhood, ... The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community.

When some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St Paul's.

We have numerous investigations into (accessibility at) county facilities that were designed by Architecture Plus.

Wherever possible, ... I'd like to see Charlotte architects and contractors used. I'd like to keep the Charlotte taxpayers' money here in Charlotte.

We can't find any more concrete example of Arctic warming, which is twice as fast as in any other part of the world,

I think it will fit well with the Theater District, with the Market Arcade Theatre, with the Alleyway Theatre that was just completed.

Jim Nussle has said that a clean budget is one of his top priorities, and he has proven that today by keeping dicey policy language that has no budgetary consequence, namely drilling in the Arctic refuge, out of the budget.

It is certainly true that the architects of Communist expansion are taking every possible measure to impose their dogmas upon the world.

Steve Ballmer

We have an incredible opportunity...to revolutionize the Internet user experience. We need to deliver our next generation services platform in order to do that. And we need Bill Gates 100 percent focused on helping architect that.

Martin Mull

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

We have a very open architecture for data warehousing and BI, partly because Oracle Warehouse Builder 10 g works so well with third-party databases. Oracle Warehouse Builder performs the heavy lifting with our ETL processes, and it minimizes costs by delivering data to a variety of end-user tools.

Ben Horowitz

When you found a company, you have the original vision, you make all the original decisions, you know every employee, you kind of know every aspect of the product architecture and its limitations.

We are in the process of creating the architecture of international accountability for human rights violations. You need to hold individuals responsible, but there is a big gap if you can't say the machinery of a state is responsible, too.

We are delighted that the outstanding son of Montjeu will be standing at stud in England. He will retire after the Arc and Breeders' Cup Turf. Her Majesty is thrilled to have such a special horse coming to Sandringham, where Shirley Heights and Bustino have stood before.

I think if they build those things, it could do more damage than good. It's just ridiculous. It trivializes the architecture and will ultimately detract from the good things being done.

I studied graphic design originally. I used to like drawing, and I was quite into technical drawing. I was always interested in the visual medium, but I thought I was going to be an architect or something like that, but it's quite a lonely job.

Joan Anderson

We hope that you will tell as many people as you can about the archives so people can come and use it.

We don't distribute the ball enough. It became more of having to go one-on-one to score, because teams weren't going to let us shoot the arc shot.

Unified messaging is really an old architecture. It has been around since the mid-'90s. There is a shift happening, because Microsoft is getting into the business. Still, you can't really say that things will change overnight.

Those who are presenting opening the Arctic as a solution to the world's energy problems are misrepresenting the facts. This is really an intense debate going on. In some ways, it's for the soul of the conservation community.

We did not shoot the ball well from the arc or from the free throw line, but we cut down on our turnovers in the second half, with three.

Heber J. Grant

My most earnest prayer is that every man and every woman will get it into his or her heart that they are in very deed the architects of their lives.

Whether it catches up to what the world sees or record companies or radio or everybody wants - you can't be the architect of that.

John Scott

Poetry is a double-edged sword. You learn to use language at its most intense - but this is far too intense for prose fiction. I've been teaching myself to progressively strip the 'poetry' away - the bulk of The Architect is told in very simple prose.

One thing Arch had was a lot of patience. The kids never quit. Arch never cut a kid. If you came out, you would get a suit.

Ninety percent of what I build is made of home salvaged architecture ? pieces of a house or a business. Every one is different ? they're one-of-a-kind pieces, you'd say.

James Stewart

I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I'd done theatricals in college, but I'd done them because it was fun.

I was raised to ignore it. It was something my mother's generation saw as an embarrassment. It was corny and archaic and not pushed as something an up-and-coming musician wanted to learn. My mother wanted me to write Broadway shows.

Cate Blanchett

I would have loved to have been an architect - which, actually, would have been a disaster.