Architect Quote by Ambrose Bierce Download Open image “Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.” — Ambrose Bierce ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architect Architecture House Money Plans Strategy
An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Architect: Someone who knows the difference between that which could be done and that which should be done. — Larry McVoy Copy Share Image
As an architect you are a builder. You are of course more than a builder. You need to be a militant, you have to… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
To become an Architect in the right sense of the word means that a man shall give his life to it and nothing else,… — Cass Gilbert Copy Share Image
“An architect is a generalist, not a specialist-the conductor of a symphony, not a virtuoso who plays every instrument perfectly. As a practitioner, an… — Matthew Frederick Copy Share Image
To be an architect is to possess an individual voice speaking a generally understood language of form. — Robert A. M. Stern Copy Share Image
Architecture is a service business. An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
What I learned from architectural drafting is that everything has to have a plan to work. You just can't wing it. I can't get… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then… — Cameron Sinclair Copy Share Image
OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was once more common than it is now. Arasthus tells of a peasant who was occupied by a different devil for every day in the week, and on Sundays by two. They were frequently seen, always walking in his shadow, when he had one, but… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share
DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/ At work… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south from Boreaplas. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There was never a genius who was not thought a fool until he disclosed himself; whereas he is a fool then only. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress 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 voice in… — Maria Shriver Copy Share Image
When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Architects mostly work for privileged people, people who have money and power, Power and money are invisible, so people hire us to visualize their power and money by making monumental architecture. I love to make monuments, too, but I thought perhaps we can use our experience and knowledge more for the general public, even for those who have lost their… — Shigeru Ban Copy Share
I was the chairman of the Budget Committee and the lead architect the last time it happened in Washington, and when we did it… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
The architect is very interesting because the architect is the commander, meaning the one who commands all the workers. The architect is also the… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a mater-architect;… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond,… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
The challenge of today's generation of architects is the environment. — Carol Ross Barney Copy Share Image
I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride - humility in the weight of those great American architects… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
