I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
I champion the idea of being more conscious. I call it being an active architect of your own life. Building your life… — Hill Harper Copy Share Image
Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration -… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
My special situation was that I was the son and grandson of architects. And so I saw building. We were building the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Being an architect is like playing piano, you learn to play to admire how well the other guys play piano. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
For me, I think the most exciting thing in architecture is the re-emergence of the locally-focused architect. — Cameron Sinclair Copy Share Image
I guess I can't be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
I attended a lecture by a gray-haired old man from Finland, who later I discovered was the architect Alvar Aalto. I was… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Conversion requires a subtler mind. Architects don't like it, architects want to create their own landmark buildings so that people a few… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
I think creating of any sort, whatever line you're in, is paramount - you can be an architect, you can be a… — Ellen Greene Copy Share Image
Manhattan, one of the most moneyed spots on the planet, also has one of the greatest concentrations of people in its skyscrapers.… — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
If you're talking to an architect, he can look at a blank piece of paper, and once the initial design is there,… — Ryan Tedder Copy Share Image
I love to be busy and be challenged. I'm my happiest when I'm under pressure and almost overwhelmed by how much I… — Aisha Tyler Copy Share Image
There's no architect who doesn't want to build a library - and I am no different. With so much scrutiny now attached… — Annabelle Selldorf Copy Share Image
We have everywhere an absence of memory. Architects sometimes talk of building with context and continuity in mind, religious leaders call it… — Howard Mansfield Copy Share Image
With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything,… — Arne Jacobsen Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The job of the architect becomes more difficult in this secular age. Where once he had a god to extol, he now… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect… — George D Boardman Copy Share Image
You don't have to become a slave in a corporate office or groupie of a celebrity architect, because all you need is… — Raimund Abraham Copy Share Image
The Art of Seeing. It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean, to see in such a… — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
Destroy the seed and the plant will never grow. Man alone, of all creatures of earth, can change his thought pattern and… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
Thus by such victory, not by machines but in oppositions to the principle to the principles of machines, has the freedom of… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
“A person who designs buildings is called an architect, but in the case of Prufrock Prep a better term might be 'depressed… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The self-commissioned architect is the obviously exclusive potential - for as at present used, or designed, the world's resources are serving only… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I meditate every day for between ten to twenty minutes. Every morning, I work out and go to the gym for an… — John Feldmann Copy Share Image
One of the things I think about as I've evolved as an architect is, 'Where do the poetic impulses come from?' — Antoine Predock Copy Share Image
I have an expensive hobby: buying homes, redoing them, tearing them down and building them up the way they want to be… — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
I am trying to counter the fixity of architectures, their stolidity, with elements that give an ineffable immaterial quality. — Toyo Ito Copy Share Image
An architect must remember that the people working or living in his building need space - to dream, to be quiet, to… — Christian de Portzamparc Copy Share Image
Through True Love, she merges with Him. She who does not know her Husband Lord, the Architect of karma, is deluded by… — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
An architect ought to be an educated man so as to leave a more lasting remembrance in his treatises. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
May every man is not the architect of his own fortune; but every man is the architect of his own character. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
I was the chairman of the House Budget Committee and one of the chief architects the last time we balanced a budget,… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life. — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
I'm strong-willed. Architects are strong-willed. You get the best results with a strong client and a strong architect working together. — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
The first thing that an architect must do is to sense that every building you build is a world of its own,… — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
