Top 1200 Architecture School Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I dropped out of high school. I really had no interest in doing any school work whatsoever.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

I decided I wanted to do something that was worthwhile and thought I would try architecture. There was not an architect in my family.

I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)

Prince Charles was a lot wittier than I thought he'd be, and passionate about the environment and architecture.

The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices.

I dropped out of college in Hawaii just because I thought school was for losers. But school's really important.

Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a d v e n t u r e... In other words, the utopian enterprise.

That's what really bothered me about high school: There was just no time to do anything other than school.

I was a dreamer when I was at high school and even primary school. I used to dream about doing adventurous things.

Children drop out of school because they're hungry. By providing a meal at school we have seen an increase in attendance.

For me, I think the most exciting thing in architecture is the re-emergence of the locally-focused architect.

I quit school in ninth grade, even though I was good at the studies. I knew I didn't need school for what I wanted.

At seven years old, I won a scholarship to George Heriot's School, an independent school in Edinburgh, and I was there until I was 17.

There's a very small percentage of people that take limos to school and have $2000 handbags - no one in my high school had that!

Church architecture describes visually the idea of the sacred, which is a fundamental need of man.

I did drama school in Delhi. I am glad I studied in a school where cultural activities were significant.

Home is the first school for us all, a school with no fixed curriculum, no quality control, no examinations, no teacher training

In primary school I was terrible. I don't think I was particularly well behaved in high school, but I started to apply myself.

Architecture is frozen music. [Ger., Die Backunst ist eine erstarrte Musik.]

I already had a lot of friends at school who didn't care about the whole acting thing, so there was no reason for me to not be in school.

I just remember having the President's Fitness Challenge when I was in elementary school and middle school. You had to do different activities, and at the end of it, I think you got a little pin or a badge. I was like, 'How do we incorporate Captain America into high school?' You would have the 'Captain America Fitness Challenge.'

If I failed in acting, I wanted to have a backup, thus I chose architecture. I learnt painting as well.

My interest was always to do interdisciplinary work with space. I thought of architecture as one strand in a multimedia practice.

Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.

There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart.

The school I went to was only famous for one thing... Peter Osgood went to that particular school. That's probably my earliest memory of the importance of football.

I don't separate architecture, design, or culture. What's more important is a language of creativity that carries meaning.

Great architecture of the past was always clear. SFMOMA is still a simple building to understand.

You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.

I'm totally into architecture for all strata of society. High design should not just be for rich people.

London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design.

I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today.

I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age.

Truly great architecture always transcends its stated function, sometimes in unanticipated ways.

In elementary school, I did well in science, but I was a poor writer. When I got to high school, I failed all my courses.

Rubio rode his skill as a high school quarterback to college in Florida, followed by law school.

I left school to go to so many trials. There was no point in me going to school because I was away all the time.

In school, I was the quietest girl ever! I had a lot of trouble in school. Kids were mean to me.

Going to school and formal education wasn't all that impactful to me, but it was the people that I met at school that really made such a difference.

Through high school, college, graduate school and beyond, I had a number of relationships that were wonderful.

I'd studied English literature and American history, but the English literature, which I thought was going to be helpful to me in an immediate way, was the opposite. So I had to un-think a lot of things and move out of my own head, and I learned a lot. It was like graduate school, but an un-graduate school or an un-school.

I went to Harvard High because it was a great school. That it happened to be a military school was just a part of it. I gained from the discipline there.

Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking.

I love '70s organic architecture. I am very influenced by the time when I grew up.

The show is called The Office and while it focuses on the people, the architecture of the space is very important.

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

Because I lived so close to the school and walked there every day, I used to enjoy the school bus trips.

The heart and soul of school culture is what people believe, the assumptions they make about how school works.

One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.

I went to public school my whole life. It was a performing arts school, so I can't say if it was a typical experience or not, because it's all I know.

In fourth grade I had a high school reading level, but I didn't want to go to school and I didn't feel I belonged there.

Most of my friends surfed, so we would go before school, after school - literally, whenever we could.

Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.

I loved school. But when I started 'Party of Five' in the fifth grade, I was taken out of school and tutored on the set.

I don't believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people anymore. They say: 'So what else is new?'

My hope is that light, flexible architecture might bring about a new and open society.

I always thought that a prep school was what some people went to after high school to prepare themselves for college.

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.

I always knew I'd go back to school. Modeling was a means to an end, making money for graduate school.