Architect Quotes - Page 20

• Every decision you've made will impact how things go. The player's also the
  architect of what happens.

  Casey Hudson

  Player, Impact, Decision

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• Spatial intelligence is virtually left out of formal education. In kindergarten we give children blocks and sand with which to build. Then we take those things away for the next twelve years of their education and expect kids to be architects and engineers.

  Ann Lewin-Benham

  Education, Children, Block

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• I am the way into the city of woe.
  I am the way to a forsaken people.
  I am the way into eternal sorrow.
  Sacred justice moved my architect.
  I was raised here by divine omnipotence,
  Primordial love and ultimate intellect.
  Only those elements time cannot wear
  Were made before me, and beyond time I stand.
  Abandon all hope ye who enter here.

  Dante Alighieri

  Omnipotence, Cities, Justice

  Dante Alighieri, John Ciardi (1954). “The inferno”, Signet

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• If we want sincere harmony, peace and joy in our lives, we can have them, but we must be willing to do the work. We must make maintaining an awareness of our spiritual natures first in our lives. Our inner world is the architect of our external world. We don't lose faith in the goodness of life because we become angry and depressed. We become angry and depressed because we lose faith in the goodness of life.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Spiritual, Joy, World

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• Sculpture, for me, provides that environmental discipline where you actually move in and around it. And if you have a good collaboration with an architect, to combine those aspects of color - I'm talking about color becoming a form within the building - that is a very different approach. I love contemporary architecture, which makes collaboration more interesting-and you have to be able to collaborate. It's like making a film, in a way: Everyone is a part of the team.

  Keith Sonnier

  Team, Moving, Discipline

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport." Airports are ugly. Some are very ugly. Some attain a degree of ugliness that can only be the result of a special effort. This ugliness arises because airports are full of people who are tired, cross, and have just discovered that their luggage has landed in Murmansk (Murmansk airport is the only exception of this otherwise infallible rule), and architects have on the whole tried to reflect this in their designs.

  Douglas Adams

  Tired, Airports, Expression

  Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the greatest reforms that could be, in these reforming days ... would be to have women architects. The mischief with the houses built to rent is that they are all male contrivances.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  House, Males, Reform

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• When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Fall, Independence, Republic

  Speech at Civil Rights March,Washington, D.C., 28 Aug. 1963

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• A lot of people call me the architect of rock & roll. I don't call myself that, but I believe it's true.

  Little Richard

  Believe, Rocks, People

  FaceBook post by Little Richard from Dec 18, 2015

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• When a man is not satisfied with a house where he
  lives, he becomes an architect

  Renzo Piano

  Men, House, Satisfied

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• Architects cannot teach nature anything.

  Mark Twain

  Architecture, Teach, Lecturer

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.319, Courier Corporation

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• You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things.

  Maya Lin

  Artist, Architecture, Function

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• It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.

  John Burroughs

  Winter, Fire, Air

  John Burroughs (1875). “Winter Sunshine”, p.14

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• The prosperity of Masonry as a means of strengthening our religion and propagating true brotherly love, is one of the dearest wishes of my heart, which, I trust, will be gratified by the help of the Grand Architect of the Universe.

  William Howard Taft

  Heart, Mean, Love Is

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• The authour who imitates his predecessors only by furnishing himself with thoughts and elegances out of the same general magazine of literature, can with little more propriety be reproached as a plagiary, than the architect can be censured as a mean copier of Angelo or Wren, because he digs his marble out of the same quarry, squares his stones by the same art, and unites them in columns of the same orders.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Mean, Writing

  Samuel Johnson (1828). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.278

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• Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Mother, Father

  Zig Ziglar (1993). “Ziglar on Selling: The Ultimate Handbook for the Complete Sales Professional of the Nineties”, Ballantine Books

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• Most of the wonderful places in the world were not made by architects but by the people.

  Christopher Alexander

  People, World, Wonderful

  Christopher Alexander (1975). “The Oregon Experiment”, p.206, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.

  Jane Jacobs

  Cities, Capability, Providing

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.238, Vintage

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• Do you mean to tell me that you're thinking seriously of building that way, when and if you are an architect?" Yes." My dear fellow, who will let you?" That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Thinking, Way

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.20, Penguin

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• Gracie: You have an unusual house. Have you lived here long? Bobby Tom: A couple of years. I don't much like it myself, but the architect is real proud of it. She calls it urban Stone Age with a Japanese Tahitian influence. I sort of just call it ugly.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Couple, Real, Years

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• I'll sue!" Ian sputtered. "I'll sue you AND the dog. And the country of South Korea. And...and..." "The landscape architect?" Natalie asked. "The landscape architect!" Ian shouted.

  Peter Lerangis

  Country, Dog, Korea

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• I would not want to form a partnership with an architect who has only a little knowledge of building or a broker who has a limited knowledge of the stock market. Still, we form what we hope to be permanent relationships in love with people who have hardly any knowledge of what love is.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love Is, People, Want

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• I love movies and I love art - and an architect is an entertainer, the guy who builds a rollercoaster is an entertainer. He knows where to build the slopes, and the big anticipation when you go up... He makes you go, 'Oh my God!' when you get to the top before you come down. It's just the same as structuring a show or a dance.

  Michael Jackson

  Art, Movie Love, Guy

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Apr 11, 2013

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• I am the architect of rock n' roll. I have to be a fan of all its forms.

  Little Richard

  Rocks, Fans, Rock N Roll

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When museums are built these days, architects, directors, and trustees seem most concerned about social space: places to have parties, eat dinner, wine-and-dine donors. Sure, these are important these days - museums have to bring in money - but they gobble up space and push the art itself far away from the entrance.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Wine, Space

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