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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
I am going, if I can, to be an architect, and I am too old already, and there is no time to lose.
I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.
We may, without offending any laws of good taste, require of an architect, as we do of a novelist, that he should be not only correct, but entertaining.
I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an architect. So I went to college for it and then the acting bug got me.
You don't have to become a slave in a corporate office or groupie of a celebrity architect, because all you need is a piece of paper, a pencil and the desire to make architecture.
I've never left China. My family's been there for 600 years. But my architecture is not consciously Chinese in any sense. I'm a western architect.
As a kid I wanted to be a vet; I wanted to be an architect. I was and still am such a little geek.
If an architect wants to strengthen a decrepit arch, he increases the load laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together.
The thing is, I hate the celebrity architect thing. I just do my work.
Heaven is so far of the mind that were the mind dissolved - the site of it by architect could not again be proved.
I used to be an architect, so I have a series I am working on with USA Network that I created and am co-writing.
I thought I would draw or paint or be an architect. I was always drawing portraits. My mom put me in art classes in the summer.
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
In my life as an architect, I found that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students most severely, is their acceptance of standards that are too low.
As an architect, you do not have control of who will build the building and who will have the capability.
Any set of decisions about design is inevitably influenced by cultural prejudice, no matter how intent an architect might be to avoid it.
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.
A profound design process eventually makes the patron, the architect, and every occasional visitor in the building a slightly better human being.
I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.
Britain gets the architecture it deserves. We don’t value architecture, we don’t take it seriously, we don’t want to pay for it and the architect isn’t trusted.
If it's one thing we learned from the first book, it's that you don't have to be a prizefighter, or a world-renowned architect, or a concert violinist to have been affected by the power of words.
I have had built, from my designs, over 40,000 living units, and that's more than any other architect that I know of.
We favor hypotheses for their simplicity and explanatory power, much as the architect of the world might have done in choosing which possibility to create.
The architect who really designs for a human being has to know a great deal more than just the Five Canons of Vitruvius.
I'm a frustrated would-be architect who stumbled into the would-be business of making movies.
An architect must remember that the people working or living in his building need space - to dream, to be quiet, to find beauty somewhere.
The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a mater-architect; in execution, the labors of many.
In this business, you don't have to be an architect or an engineer or a brick layer. But you have to understand how the money flows. That you can only understand if you're on the site.
I come from a long line of architects. I'm the only one who did not become an architect, but I've been around the drawing aspect and construction my whole life.
I don't think I would ever quit acting, but there are other things I am interested in. I wanted to be an architect, and I wish I knew more about landscaping.
Steve Bannon is the architect of the entire blitzkrieg that we're seeing against American values and the American people.
I'd have no trouble being the barbecue kingpin of America. I'd just add it to all the other things I am: jazz musician, carpenter, architect, engineer and revolutionary.
A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
Architecture is a service business. An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.
I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.
I've been an entrepreneur, a writer, a food correspondent. I might have been an architect - but I'm bad at maths.
Tell me what chair you've designed and I'll tell you what sort of architect you are.
The architect works for so many years building it, and the moment you deliver it to the people is the moment when you are unnecessary.
Just because you are an architect and make decent buildings does not mean that you can suddenly become a set designer for one of the best avant-garde dancers in the world.
I'm an artist, a designer, a craftsman, interior designer, half-architect. There's no one name that fits me very well.
We have an architect in the audience who designed one of clubhouses at one of the golf courses. It's a beautiful facility. It immediately was put to use. And Donald Trump wouldn't pay what the man needed to be paid.
I remember, as a young architect, people always talked about I. M. Pei's concrete. He had a particular specification no one else knew.
I think a lot of people have the Frank Lloyd Wright model in their brains. The architect comes in with this act of creation and lays it down, and that's it. But that's not me.
An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.
I'd say I never considered myself a great architect. I'm more of a creative problem solver with good taste and a soft spot for logistical nightmares.
A lot of people call me the architect of rock & roll. I don't call myself that, but I believe it's true.
Who I am as an architect and the history of my work - that's clear to anybody who hires me. But I come in literally with nothing in my brain about what the building will look like.
Shah Rukh himself, if he wasn't an actor, would probably have liked to become an architect or interior designer. He's totally into buying property, building, and decorating.
Did you know that da Vinci was a painter, polymath, engineer, architect, biologist, and writer all rolled into one? He drew sketches of helicopters at a time when they weren't even invented!
The architect aspires to build in a city as the artist aspires to exhibit his works in a museum.
Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
So the premise of 'The Submission' is that there's an anonymous competition to design a 9/11 memorial and it's won by an American Muslim, an architect born and raised in Virginia, and his name is Mohammad Khan.
It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest is not a quiet, consuming passion.
That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated for what they have done.
My girlfriend: sophomore honors student, demigod, and — oh, yeah — head architect for redesigning the palace of the gods on Mount Olympus in her spare time.
The cynic is his own worst enemy. It requires far less skill to run a wrecking company than it does to be an architect.
If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.
