Bad Ass Quotes

I'm a kind person, I'm kind to everyone, but if you are unkind to me, then kindness is not what you'll remember me for

If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

In the absence of orders, go find something and kill it.

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.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

You are remembered for the rules you break.

I would like to be remembered as someone who was not afraid to do what she wanted to do, and as someone who took risks along the way in order to achieve her goals.

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.

As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.

You gonna do somethin'? or are you just gonna stand there and bleed?

Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.

One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.

The Sun does not realise how wonderful it is until after a room is made.

If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting.

Nothing in this world is more simple and more cheap than making cities that provide better for people.

The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.

The room is there for the human being - not the human being for the room.

I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing.