Bad Ass Quotes - Page 4

I understand that, today, some developers are asking architects to design eye-catching, iconic buildings. Fortunately, I've not had that kind of client so far.

An object should be judged by whether it has a form consistent with its use.

A design isn't finished until someone is using it.

Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.

When you can feel that close to something you're used to seeing from this great distance, well, it changes a person.

In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.

Form ever follows function.

A profound design process eventually makes the patron, the architect, and every occasional visitor in the building a slightly better human being.

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.

You must understand that the workout does not actually produce muscular growth. The workout is merely a trigger that sets the body's growth mechanism into motion. It is the body itself, of course, that produces growth; but it does so only during a sufficient rest period.

Architecture never derived its force from stability of culture, but rather from the expression of those moments when that sense of stability slipped.

Your love for what you do and willingness to push yourself where others aren't prepared to go is what will make you great.

The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things-ancient history, nineteenth century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later, or six months, or six years. But he has faith that it will happen.

Held in the palms of thousands of disgruntled people over the centuries have been ideas worth millions - if they only had taken the first step and then followed through.

You are far too smart to be the only thing standing in your way.

On Friday the 13th, April 2029, an asteroid large enough to fill the Rose Bowl as though it were an egg cup will fly so close to Earth that it will dip below the altitude of our communication satellites. We did not name this asteroid Bambi. Instead, we named it Apophis, after the Egyptian god of darkness and death.

You've got a nice neck for choking.

I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.

Being a true bad ass has no weight or gender requirement - just 100% commitment to greatness.

Never do an enemy a small injury.

No damn man kills me and lives.

The most innovative designers consciously reject the standard option box and cultivate an appetite for thinking wrong.

No law can give Congress a backbone if it refuses to stand off as the coequal branch the Constitution made it.

I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women's movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history when men - insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchal idea - have become dangerous to children and other living things, themselves included

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.