I love that your house plans for you to get muddy. Like…

Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.

— Ambrose Bierce

I would like to have . . . architecture that belonged where you see it standingand is a grace to the landscape instead of…

— Uknown

As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't design nice…

— Zaha Hadid

I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in…

— Parker Stevenson

“I'm trained as an architect; writing is like architecture. In buildings, there are design motifs that occur again and again, that repeat -- patterns,…

— Arundhati Roy

I always say that writing non-fiction versus writing fiction is a bit like architecture versus abstract painting.

— Andrew Lam

Shoe design is like architecture - with the finest structure and tight, precise seams, it suits my obsessive neatness.

— Patrick Cox

Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

As an architect, I try to be guided not by habit but by a conscious sense of the past-by precedent, thoughtfully considered...As an artist,…

— Robert Venturi

I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.

— Tadao Ando

I bought a former library, not because I have a lot of books, but also I like architecture, and it was built in 1965,…

— Udo Kier

I like the architecture of lingerie.

— Colleen Atwood

“When I began writing this story, I thought I had some idea of what it was about. I was wrong. In my life writing…

— Richard Paul Evans

Plato, the first true pope of philosophy (sorry, Socrates), argued for a World of Forms above the reality-a transcendent plane of perfect essences, pure…

— N.D. Wilson

Little Walter and Muddy Waters were incredible. And Bo Diddley was doing some great stuff, too.

— Columbus Short