Bad Ass Quotes - Page 2

I never went into physics or the astronaut corps to become a role model. But after my first flight, it became clear to me that I was one. And I began to understand the importance of that to people. Young girls need to see role models in whatever careers they may choose, just so they can picture themselves doing those jobs someday. You can't be what you can't see.

Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use the word order.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Life is to be enjoyed, not endured

Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.

To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don't let it.

By four o'clock, I've discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world instead.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.

Everyone has the ability to accomplish unique feats, everyone. You choose this. Become someone great in one other life. Forget about failing to many. Who cares? Doesn't matter when you start or finish, just start, no deviations, no excuses.

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it.

Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.

You may abandon your own body but you must preserve your honour.

A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense.

No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training... what a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.

There are no shortcuts. The fact that a shortcut is important to you means that you are a pussy.

I suggest taking the high road and have a little sence of humour and let things roll off your back. I think that's very important.

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.