Famous Quotes & Sayings

Honesty is a long lost art form resigned to the archives of famous quotes and a few lone ducks in a pond of hypocrites.

GARGOYLE, n. A rain-spout projecting from the eaves of mediaeval buildings, commonly fashioned into a grotesque caricature of some personal enemy of the architect or owner of the building. This was especially the case in churches and ecclesiastical structures generally, in which the gargoyles presented a perfect rogues' gallery of local heretics and controversialists. Sometimes when a new dean and chapter were installed the old gargoyles were removed and others substituted having a closer relation to the private animosities of the new incumbents.

Cynthia Payne

Galvanised into action by the second trial, I was determined to change Britain's archaic sex laws.

One of legendary architect Pete Dye's most celebrated courses, Teeth of the Dog is named for a local term describing the island's jagged-edged coral reefs. The Caribbean-bordering par 3s are the Dog's main draw and down on the fifth and the seventh holes, you're so close to the water that you can feel the spray.

Jane Harman

It is appropriate to insist on an overall strategy for space architecture and to face tough decisions, ... Boeing management readily admits that mistakes were made on this program. But those mistakes are now corrected and I remain hopeful that a well-managed program will ultimately move forward.

Hayden Christensen

Last time I was here, I went up to the archives and got shown around, and there was the dark helm, ... I asked if I could put it on and get a picture, which is pretty funny, because I'm wearing this gray track suit and had this enormous helmet on which is just completely disproportionate.

Thom Mayne

Somehow, architecture alters the way we think about the world and the way we behave. Any serious architecture, as a litmus test, has to be that.

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

The archives are an extremely important facet of the settlement because what the survivors and their families were looking for in this case was not only the monetary restitution, but historic accountability.

The architecture of Thomas Jefferson's Lawn had a big impact on me.

The architects wanted the building to have certain qualities of the natural landscape that are constantly changing. In different lights, for example, the skin has different qualities. It changes with the sunlight. It changes with the fog.

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.

Leonard Cohen

Well I've seen your flag on the marble arch and love is not a victory march, it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah

Catherine Hardwicke

When you're in a creative flow with somebody - and I had this back in architecture school - you're just so passionate about what you're doing, and if that other person is just as passionate, you'll be madly in love with them. It's just that thrill of creating.

Jean Nouvel

Each new situation requires a new architecture.

He bought two other buildings on Frankford Avenue, too. But it would be nice to have more developers here. There's a lot of opportunity here. We have old buildings where the architecture and the interiors are really interesting.

Google's architecture can scale. Using commodity hardware, Google can deploy more capacity at a lower cost and more quickly than a competitor relying on a system built with brand-name hardware,

Google's architecture can scale. Using commodity hardware, Google can deploy more capacity at a lower cost and more quickly than a competitor relying on a system built with brand-name hardware,

Marin Alsop

I assumed there would be an influx of women on the podium, but there are not many more at my level than there were 20 years ago. Maybe boards don't want to hire women because they don't meet the archetypal image of the maestro.

Norman Lear

Carroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker was a genius at work, God's gift to the world. He is etched permanently in our memories.

Sandy Wilson

Our target is to deliver demonstrable evidence to our customer that in-hub electric-drive is mature enough to meet the FRES requirement and that the hybrid power architecture can be successfully integrated with an open standards electronic architecture. Further, this is an excellent opportunity for the customer to evaluate the transformational benefits of a hybrid-electric drive that offers track-like performance at wheeled vehicle costs, which has the capability to quickly balance or shift power to mission systems that may have different requirements based on mission profile. This optimizes performance for fuel efficiency, and removes traditional armored fighting-vehicle drive line constraints, which will significantly reduce the whole-life cost of ownership.

The overall experience Skype provided was superior to other folks because of the underlying architecture and the ability to provide a superior experience.

Natasha Trethewey

On a very personal level, I have fond memories of spending a lot of time in the Library of Congress working on my collection of poems 'Native Guard.' I was there over a summer doing research in the archives and then writing in the reading room at the Jefferson building.

Richard Rogers

Architecture is a living thing. If I want to leave something to the future, it has to be able to change - but retain something of the ethos that we built up over 50 years.

Le Corbusier

Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois.

Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also fails, grasping the shadow instead of the substance.

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

Sterling Beaumon

I'm going to have to go with math. Even though that's one of my harder subjects, but it's one of the funnest. Because I also want to be an architect when I grow up, if I can, and I know that being an architect takes a lot of math in it.

Sammy Cahn

Every song, the title dictates the architecture of the song.

Nate Lowman

Architecture is a discourse; everything is a discourse. Fashion discourse is actually a micro-discourse, because it's centered around the body. It is the most rapidly developing form of discourse.

Nathaniel Philbrick

I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've learned about history is in the field, so to speak. Going into the archives and working with it directly.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for children, young or old. Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.