Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Bayley

'Where do architects and designers get their ideas?'' The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it mere casuistry to distinguish between tradition and plagiarism?

Stephen Bayley

''Where do architects and designers get their ideas?'' The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it mere casuistry to distinguish between tradition and plagiarism?

Bjarke Ingels

Architects have to become designers of eco-systems. Not just designers of beautiful facades or beautiful sculptures, but systems of economy and ecology, where we channel the flow not only of people, but also the flow of resources through our cities and buildings.

Don Marshall

We know the clock is ticking. We need to have the architects create a design and have the plan ready to present to the public by May.

Richard Engel

There are clearly many Egyptian free-thinkers and intellectuals - lots of wonderful Egyptian artists and architects and scientists.

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.

Richard Andrews

We're honored to be the architects for these projects. Working with staff and school officials, we've tried to design a building that's functional and easy to maintain. When this is done, we want you all to look forward to coming to school and going to the classrooms we build.

Thomas Heatherwick

It's important for people who criticise architects - whether what they build is or isn't to your taste - to appreciate how they devote themselves and put everything into bringing a building into existence.

Rob Smith

One of the things that our architects are strongly trying to do is to maintain that open feel that we have. We are not an inner-city campus.

Danny Rimer

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

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.

Peter Zumthor

I work a little bit like a sculptor. When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about paper, it's not about forms. It's about space and material.

Peter Zumthor

Architecture has its place in the concrete world. This is where it exists. This is where it makes its statement.

Paul Keating

You get one chance to do something about native title. You get perhaps one chance in your life to do something about a republic. You get one chance, your chance, to build a piece of the political architecture in the Pacific. I wasn't going to give those up.

Bruce Jackson

Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.

Vitruvius

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

Leon Max

To me, the fashion and architecture I like are very closely linked. Both should be clean and simple and without embellishment.

Le Corbusier

Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois.

Carine Roitfeld

Designers have told me that their collections are so me, but I don't always recognise it because if you ask me what my style is, I'm really not that sure.

Lazaro Hernandez

All the young designers now are doing something interesting.

Charles Pollock

Most designers work up to a peak. They do some great stuff, and then it's just junk.

Anna Wintour

It is so important for designers not to run scared, and not to be too worried about what's safe and what's commercial.

Elsa Peretti

A lot of designers still have nostalgia for the past. As for the furniture in the future, I hope they use less of real wood. Conservation in wood is necessary.

Nigel Barker

Designers simply can't afford to make dresses in 10 sizes for a sample.

Francesca Zambello

Working with Placido Domingo, we have coined the term 'American Ring,' and the designers and I are using American history, mythology, iconography and landscape to set the operas.

Christian Lacroix

Much later, designers like Dior and Saint Laurent recreated styles form the '30s and '40s.

Diane Clehane

There is a sense that things have gotten too vulgar, and designers will do their part and pull back.

Viswanathan Anand

I personally prefer long-distance walking, but we are talking about pre-tournament preparation. During a tournament I make do with walking, mainly to concentrate before a game.

Bobby Short

I was very young at the time, and I mainly appreciated their vocal qualities, even though I was already living as they did - as black performers in a white world.

Pierce Brosnan

Some people think my singing is superb. But they're mainly on strong medication and not allowed out much.

Terry Teachout

Unlike film, live theater is an anti-naturalistic medium in which character is mainly illuminated through speech and movement.

Jonathan Coe

Well, mainly it's because I'm not a writer who's comfortable with writing about periods that I can't remember firsthand.

Robert G. Allen

We're mainly providing a place to sleep, shower and use restrooms.

Jamie Bamber

When I'm living in L.A., I'm mainly a jeans, vintage T-shirt and Nike high-tops guy.

Martin Chalfie

Mainly I study the sense of touch and what the molecules are that transduce touch. And I use mutants in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans to look at that problem.

Willie Nelson

Mainly because I'd already been paid on it . . . and paid pretty good.

Charles Hodge

Our first remark on this subject is that the ministry is an office, and not merely a work.

Lord Salisbury

Many who think they are workers in politics are really merely tools.

Alma Gluck

One does not study for a goal. One sings because one can't help it! The 'goal' nine times out of ten is a mere accident.

Patrick O'Brian

I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.

Theodore Bikel

No doubt, unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed by mere declarations.

Mark Tuohey

This is merely a stake in the ground. There will be no arbitration. We'll have this resolved before then. We're moving very vigorously on several fronts to finalize this matter.

C. S. Lewis

When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love them.

Eric Rasmussen

The problem with much of that thinking is that it's taking something from today, like movies, and merely putting it on the Web.

Jane Greer

My mouth was too large, my eyes turned out, and my legs mere toothpicks.

Camille Paglia

The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati.

Edith Wharton

traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.

Carlos Fuentes

There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.

John Stuart Mill

A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.

James Russell Lowell

There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.

John Searle

You do not understand your own tradition if you do not see it in relation to others.

Nance O'Neil

Tradition has made women cowardly.

Philip Johnson

I call myself a traditionalist, although I have fought against tradition all my life.

Maud Adams

If I have smashed the traditions, it was because I knew no traditions.