Famous Quotes & Sayings

George S. Patton

Duty is the essence of manhood.

Frank Gehry

I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.

Nicki Minaj

I bob and weave em, hit em wit that Mayweather JAB.

Sean Connery

Some age. Others mature.

Louis Kahn

The Sun does not realise how wonderful it is until after a room is made.

John Ruskin

When we build, let us think that we build forever.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

With one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) that all humans who have ever been born. Yet many people continue to assert that it is we who are in charge of the world

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Science is basically an inoculation against charlatans.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

'As a fraction of your tax dollar today, what is the total cost of all spaceborne telescopes, planetary probes, the rovers on Mars, the International Space Station, the space shuttle, telescopes yet to orbit, and missions yet to fly?' Answer: one-half of one percent of each tax dollar. Half a penny. I'd prefer it were more: perhaps two cents on the dollar. Even during the storied Apollo era, peak NASA spending amounted to little more than four cents on the tax dollar.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Countless women are alive today because of ideas stimulated by a design flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

If an alien lands on your front lawn and extends an appendage as a gesture of greeting, before you get friendly, toss it an eightball. If the appendage explodes, then the alien was probably made of antimatter. If not, then you can proceed to take it to your leader.

Theodore Roosevelt

Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot, but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.

Michelangelo

It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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

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.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use the word order.

Nicki Minaj

Ok first things first I'll eat your brains Then Imma start rockin gold teeth & fangs

Nicki Minaj

Don't do coke I don't blow niggas, I don't tell niggas I show niggas

Nicki Minaj

"S" on my chest cause I'm ready to save him Ready to get buck on anybody that plays him

Nancy Banks Smith

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

Genghis Khan

If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you

Naomi Wolf

A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.

Napoleon Hill

Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.

Rem Koolhaas

Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance.

Maya Lin

Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make models of it, but it can only be experienced as a complete whole.

Louis Sullivan

Form ever follows function.

Lilith Saintcrow

What do you say when someone takes on a really bad ass, murdering sucker for you? There just aren't words for that.

John Maynard Keynes

I wish I'd drunk more champagne.

John Barrymore

Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.

Joan Crawford

Dammit... Don't you dare ask God to help me.

T. Boone Pickens

The first billion is a helluva lot harder.

Sylvester Stallone

A lot of guys don't want to admit that they have a propensity for generosity and for violence.

Trey Gowdy

Your memo is trumping a Congressional statute. You don't have the discretion on whether to follow the law or not.