Badass 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.

I came here to chew bubble gum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubble gum.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

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

When you've worked hard, and done well, and walked through that doorway of opportunity...you do not slam it shut behind you...you reach back, and you give other folks the same chances that helped you succeed.

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.

I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Simple as that.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

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

When you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at something, they'll tell you.

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.

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

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

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.

I never underestimated myself. And I never saw anything wrong with ambition.

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

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

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

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.

My life is simple, my food is plain, and my quarters are uncluttered. In all things, I have sought clarity. I face the troubles and problems of life and death willingly. Virtue, integrity and courage are my priorities. I can be approached, but never pushed; befriended but never coerced; killed but never shamed.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

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.