Badass Quotes - Page 2

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

Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.

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

I feel myself becoming the fearless person I have dreamt of being. Have I arrived? No. But I'm constantly evolving and challenging myself to be unafraid to make mistakes.

Nobody kills me and lives to tell about it.

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

You can't move mountains by whispering at them.

You see, in this world, there's two kinds of people, my friend - those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig.

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense.

I wonder whether those of our political masters who have been put in charge of the defence of the country can distinguish a mortar from a motor; a gun from a howitzer; a guerrilla from a gorilla, although a great many resemble the latter.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

Dreams are lovely. But they are just dreams. Fleeting, ephemeral, pretty. But dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It's hard work that makes things happen. It's hard work that creates change.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

The first gesture of an architect is to draw a perimeter; in other words, to separate the microclimate from the macro space outside. This in itself is a sacred act. Architecture in itself conveys this idea of limiting space. It's a limit between the finite and the infinite. From this point of view, all architecture is sacred.

There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

I know for some girls, tight clothes make them feel like they can take on the world-and that's fine too. But I don't think that sexy only means showing skin: It's all about wearing whatever makes you feel the most badass.

Honor to those who in the life they lead define and guard a Thermopylae. Never betraying what is right, consistent and just in all they do but showing pity also, and compassion; generous when they are rich, and when they are poor, still generous in small ways, still helping as much as they can; always speaking the truth, yet without hating those who lie. And even more honor is due to them when they foresee (as many do foresee) that in the end Ephialtis will make his appearance, that the Medes will break through after all.

I've known for a long time that they're a bunch of idiots.

Charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before. It's also much easier - and much more fun.

Do not wish for quick results, nor look for small advantages. If you seek quick results, you will not reach the ultimate goal. If you are led astray by small advantages, you will never accomplish great things.

Never stop being YOU. I am out to be the best ME I can be. Do what you LOVE and you will be badass.

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.