My girlfriend: sophomore honors student, demigod, and—oh, yeah—head architect for redesigning the palace of the gods on Mount Olympus in her spare… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I remember, as a young architect, people always talked about I. M. Pei's concrete. He had a particular specification no one else… — Annabelle Selldorf Copy Share Image
Whether that's speaking up in your job or asking for a promotion or saying, 'I think I can do that.' Using your… — Maria Shriver Copy Share Image
The difference between regulated architects and unregulated designers is, unlike buildings, letterheads don't fall down and kill people. — Brian Webb Copy Share Image
Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
We are the true architects of our lives. Only we as individuals and individuals alone, carry within us, the inner ability to… — Robert M. Hensel Copy Share Image
I was born during the war, on October 20, 1942, as the second of five children. My father, Rolf Volhard, was an architect. — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Copy Share Image
An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
I just want to make my last demand in reverence to the work of what has been done by architects of the… — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
Michelangelo's contemporaries thought him the greatest artist who ever lived and called him 'divine.' His reputation as sculptor, architect, painter and draughtsman… — Michael Ayrton Copy Share Image
When I left Washington, we actually had a balanced budget and we paid down the most amount of the national debt in… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good politics. He will not understand… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
To be an architect has been a life-long dream. Little did I know when asked at the age of 14 'what do… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
I think that the point of being an architect is to help raise the experience of everyday living, even a little. Putting… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
My mother thought I would have a hard life as a painter. My father thought the highest thing a person could be… — Alex Katz Copy Share Image
So if you're a customer today, the same person who came in to demonstrate the technology for you and helped you architect… — Sanjay Kumar Copy Share Image
Dealing with people is probably the biggest problem you face, especially if you are in business. Yes, and that is also true… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
“Si monumentum requiris circumspice (If you seek his monument, look around.) [ Epitaph on Wren's tomb in St. Paul's Cathedral ]” — Christopher Wren Copy Share Image
My father was an architect and I grew up knowing more about planning regulations and the constraints of old buildings than most… — Tanni Grey-Thompson Copy Share Image
A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Better to be the architect of something you can endorse than the placard waving protagonist standing in the rain. — Mr. Wrestling Copy Share Image
Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment. — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
A couturier must be an architect for design, a sculptor for shape, a painter for color, a musician for harmony, and a… — Cristobal Balenciaga Copy Share Image
The cynic is his own worst enemy. It requires far less skill to run a wrecking company than it does to be… — Uell Stanley Andersen Copy Share Image
The architect needs to learn to see, and to open his eyes because there is always a lesson to learn from the… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people have the Frank Lloyd Wright model in their brains. The architect comes in with this act… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
Where do architects and designers get their ideas? The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we are to believe or accept that buildings are cultural markers, if architects work in a vacuum with their own preconceptions… — Peter Clewes Copy Share Image
Why are the architects of the family-values agenda so eager to punish into the next generation? What is being served by seeking,… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I practised as an architect for 10 years. I qualified in 1973 with a fellowship diploma of architecture. World Series Cricket gave… — Max Walker Copy Share Image
I come from a long line of architects. I'm the only one who did not become an architect, but I've been around… — Kym Whitley Copy Share Image
I like building and making things. I, perhaps, would like to try my hand at directing one day. Sometimes I fancy myself… — Matthew James Thomas Copy Share Image
I decided I wanted to do something that was worthwhile and thought I would try architecture. There was not an architect in… — Carol Ross Barney Copy Share Image
Everyone, rich or poor, deserves a shelter for the soul, architects should lead in procuring social and environmental change. — Samuel Mockbee Copy Share Image
The architect holds much knowledge, but is not a specialist. Especially with the computer and technology, the amount of knowledge an architect… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
You Republicans are the arsonists who burned down our national home. Now you have the nerve to criticize the 'architect' America just… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
The difference between a builder and an architect is that an architect also cares about desire, about dreams. — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image