We can't do this without you," I managed at last. "Everyone talks about my powers, but you're the badass here.
Not unlike the toaster, I control darkness.
Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power - not because they don't see it, but because they see it and they don't want it to exist.
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.
Am I going to have to carry you? If so, it would complete my badass knight-in-shining-armor act with you today.
We work on macro issues and macaroni and cheese issues. When women are in the halls of power, our national debate reflects the needs and dreams of American families.
I'm always looking for those places where you can slam really disparate people up against one another, and they have to deal with each other. There are very few crossroads anymore. We talk about this country as this big melting pot, but it's a mosaic. There's all these pieces, they're next to each other, they're not necessarily mixing. And I'm looking for those spaces where people actually do mix.
He shouldn't have been in the NBA, but we were too cheap to pay for a point guard.
My job as a double was always to put [actors] at ease. My job was to make my character, or the actress that I was doubling, look as badass as possible by being there.
I know the expression love bloomed is metaphorical, but in my heart in this moment, there is one badass flower, captured in time-lapse photography, going from bud to wild radiant blossom in ten seconds flat.
Of course, I thought I was badass at sixteen, too. Wait, I was badass at sixteen. Oh, yeah.
I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading.
Playing Amanda [in Defiance] was a wonderful opportunity for me. She was strong, dynamic, a complete badass, not defined her relationship with a man. She could hold her own. I really loved her.
Bubbles. On a scale of one to ten, a bubble bath has to rank zero as far as things I'd expect an older-than-dirt-badass vampire to indulge in. The only thing that would surprise me more would be if you pulled out a rubber ducky. -Kira to Mencheres
Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.
A profound design process eventually makes the patron, the architect, and every occasional visitor in the building a slightly better human being.
This year women learned that if we aren't at the table, we're on the menu.