The fascinating thing about Game of Thrones is that none of the badasses are just badasses, and none of the wimps are just wimps. A coward will surprise you with courage, and a very powerful person will blindside you with weakness, and the most evil person is capable of the most compassionate moment.
I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot — but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.
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.
Design is where science and art break even.
A design isn't finished until someone is using it.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Dimitri was on a first name basis with one of the most badass guardians around. Of course, Dimitri was pretty badass himself, so I shouldn’t have been surprised.
This year women learned that if we aren't at the table, we're on the menu.
I was talking to Shonda Rhimes the other day and I said, "I. Do. Not. Know. How. You. Do. This. " While we're writing episode 10, episode 6 is shooting, episode 3 is in the edit, and episode 2 is in its color session. . . You've got seven episodes in different parts! It's a wild, wild, wild ride, which I thoroughly enjoyed. It was badass and amazing.
President Obama pushed for fairness in the military, listening to commanders as we ended Don't Ask Don't Tell, and on how to allow women to officially serve in more combat jobs. Because America's daughters are just as capable of defending liberty as her sons!
I'm going to help the committee regardless of any position I have. I will volunteer to be a summer intern.
Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
Maybe 23 cents doesn't sound like a lot to someone with a Swiss bank account, Cayman Island Investments and an IRA worth tens of millions of dollars. But Governor Romney, when we lose 23 cents every hour, every day, every paycheck, every job, over our entire lives, what we lose can't just be measured in dollars.
When we were almost to the other campus, I felt the weird nausea hit me. I called a warning to Christian, just as a Strigoi grabbed him. But Christian was fast. Flames wreathed the Strigoi's head. He screamed and released Christian, trying frantically to put the flames out. The Strigoi never saw me coming with the stake. The whole thing took under a minute. Christian and I exchanged looks. Yeah. We were badasses.
I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass.
If farmers and blacksmiths could win independence from an empire. . . if immigrants could leave behind everything they knew for a better life on our shores. . . if women could be dragged to jail for seeking the vote. . . if a generation could defeat a depression, and define greatness for all time. . . if a young preacher could lift us to the mountaintop with his righteous dream. . . and if proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love. . . then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.
People who build their own home tend to be very courageous. These people are curious about life. They're thinking about what it means to live in a house, rather than just buying a commodity and making it work.
Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
There's a lot youdon't know, Sam. There's a lot I don't tell you. I know who I am. I know what I do, and what I am to this place. I know what I am to you, and how much you depend on me. You may be the symbol, and you may be the one everyone turns to when something goes bad, and you're the big badass, but I'm the guy doing the day-in, day-out work of running things. So I don't make this about me.
I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I nor the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.