At the end of the day it doesn't matter what anybody else thinks as long as you're happy.
'As a fraction of your tax dollar today, what is the total cost of all spaceborne telescopes, planetary probes, the rovers on Mars, the International Space Station, the space shuttle, telescopes yet to orbit, and missions yet to fly?' Answer: one-half of one percent of each tax dollar. Half a penny. I'd prefer it were more: perhaps two cents on the dollar. Even during the storied Apollo era, peak NASA spending amounted to little more than four cents on the tax dollar.
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space. . . On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's also about pleasure.
When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.
Ok first things first I'll eat your brains Then Imma start rockin gold teeth & fangs
Being a true bad ass has no weight or gender requirement - just 100% commitment to greatness.
We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.
The book is almost always better than the movie. You could have no better case in point than FROM HELL, Alan Moore's best graphic novel to date, brilliantly illustrated by Eddie Campbell. It's hard to describe just how much better the book is. It's like, "If the movie was an episode of Battlestar Galactica with a guest appearance by the Smurfs and everyone spoke Dutch, the graphic novel is Citizen Kane with added sex scenes and music by your favourite ten bands and everyone in the world you ever hated dies at the end. " That's how much better it is.
If you tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her the great homage of corrupting the concept of beauty.
To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.
Weightless is a great equalizer.
One day you'll be an inspiration at others.
Trust me, if you do an honest 20 rep program, at some point Jesus will talk to you. On the last day of the program, he asked if he could work in.
A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.
I'm optimistic. I see no longer people accepting fuzzy thinking in the world. The change is not that people aren't still saying under-informed things. The change is that if you're in power and you say something under-informed, there are people out there with a voice who will take you to task for having done so
I used to have a wild night with three women until 5am. , but I am getting older. In the Olympic village here, I will live it up with five women, but only until 3am.
You can't be bad ass in a car that kills gas like I kill tacos.
The desire to reach for the sky runs very deep in the human psyche.
You the type that be runnin ya mouth. See you on the block wanna run in ya house.