But amid much elegance and precision, the details of life and the Universe also exhibit haphazard, jury-rigged arrangements and much poor planning.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Many people who gain recognition and fame shape their lives by overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles, only to be catapulted into new social… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
In Miami they're building all these hideous monstrosities. It's just so easy to be an architect, once you've got the ability to… — Barbara Hulanicki Copy Share Image
Power is concentrated. The general policy is exactly the way that Adam Smith described it: it's designed for the benefit of its… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Experimental architecture by its very nature is more prone to the depredations of time and natural elements than buildings made from conventional… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
If you're serious about being an architect, you've got to learn how to take responsibility. It's not fluff. You have to do… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge… — Ralph Thomas Walker Copy Share Image
Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
No matter what your profession – doctor, lawyer, architect, accountant – if you are an American, you better be good at the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I realized that I loved using computers to create something, but being an architect just wasn't going to keep me interested. The… — Joseph Kosinski Copy Share Image
I would not want to form a partnership with an architect who has only a little knowledge of building or a broker… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back… — James Stewart Copy Share Image
Architect's designs must refer to the unquestionable perfection of the body's symmetry and proportions. If a building is to create a sense… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Throughout history, from Abyssinians and Greeks onward, artists, sculptors, and architects have worked together. I find this post - World War II… — Peter Marino Copy Share Image
During the modern period, the vanguard architect has usually relied on small residential jobs both to supply a steady income and to… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
The day I went to see my father to say I wanted to become an architect, he was a bit surprised, because… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
Normally, architects render a service. They implement what other people want. This is not what I do. I like to develop the… — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
Gracie: You have an unusual house. Have you lived here long? Bobby Tom: A couple of years. I don't much like it… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
Yet another video has emerged of MIT professor and Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber calling Americans 'stupid,' and bragging about how the Affordable… — Alexander Viets Griswold Copy Share Image
You’re kind of a psycho. I get that.” “I might be,” Monica agreed, and gave her a slow, strange smile. “You’re one… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
A mental image gives you a framework upon which to work. It is like the drawing of the architect, or the map… — William Walker Atkinson Copy Share Image
Spatial intelligence is virtually left out of formal education. In kindergarten we give children blocks and sand with which to build. Then… — Ann Lewin-Benham Copy Share Image
I hate the celebrity architect thing. I just do my work. The press comes up with this stuff and it sticks. I… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
As for philosophy, it makes an architect high-minded and not self-assuming, but rather renders him courteous, just, and honest without avariciousness. This… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, the world is composed of stories. For architects, the world is composed of buildings, for actors the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Ultimately I'll probably end up going out with an actress again. But an architect would be cool. They need to do something… — Douglas Booth Copy Share Image
Architecture is not a private affair; even a house must serve a whole family and its friends, and most buildings are used… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many years ago, we were only able to build boxes. Today, architects from all over the world are working with us -… — Zhang Xin Copy Share Image
So the premise of 'The Submission' is that there's an anonymous competition to design a 9/11 memorial and it's won by an… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
Through training, practice, and a deep sense of optimism, architects see opportunities where others only see a void. This has been the… — Cameron Sinclair Copy Share Image
Some of the best work that's happening right now is from architects who have remained in their home countries and who have… — Cameron Sinclair Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an archaeologist. But in school you have to take a tremendous amount of statistics for that, and I… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
In creating a building, architects do think they're making the world a better place. And then they hope to make the world… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
Buildings are seldom just buildings in downtown Chicago, they are Examples, and not a city on Earth, I swear, is as knowledgeably… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
We have already considered with disfavour the possibility of the universe having been planned by a biologist or an engineer; from the… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
