Top 1200 Architecture School Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

School's not for everyone, but I'm not telling people to leave school.

I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition.

I remember running at school sports day, and I would win everything, but I wasn't a super athlete or a superstar at high school.

I was never really bullied at school. I was pretty confident in terms of school work and teachers and I've never shyed away from much but a lot of people have come up to me and said that they were bullied at school and my portrayal of Neville has influenced them a lot in their lives and helped them out.

I thought that being popular in school was just so pathetic. I knew I had a future over and beyond the horizon of that school.

I had an all right high school, even though I hated school. I wasn't massively popular, but I was okay. But I wouldn't want to do it again.

I was a competitive swimmer in middle school and high school.

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

For me, architecture is not just creating a space to protect people but to make them dream as well.

We have no sociology of architecture. Architects are unaccustomed to social analysis and mistrust it; sociologists have fatter fish to fry.

I wasn't hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school.

I first began with the recorder in our community music school. After that, I played horn and participated in the school orchestra.

I mean I met James Wan at film school. That's where we met. I didn't go to film school to find someone else to work with. I was thinking I would go and learn to direct and go and be a director like everyone else at school.

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

Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture.

At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.

My high school wasn't a big public school; it was tiny. There were 36 girls in my graduating class. We were a big group of girls that by the time senior year came along couldn't wait to get away from school fast enough but we loved each other. It's really fun to see the girls at reunions now.

I stayed a year in the sixth form and there was talk of Cambridge, but I wanted to go to drama school. At 17 and three months I went to the Old Vic School in London. This most remarkable and brilliant drama school lasted only six years because the Old Vic Theatre hadn't the money to go on funding it.

Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.

I loved school, maybe too much, really. I was summa cum laude in high school. I was driven that way.

We are not a club or a Sunday school class, but a school of the woods.

If architecture is the history of all phallic emotion, the Empire State Building is utter catharsis, and we are sitting in its silhouette.

My older sister Nikki went to Hampton music school in Virginia, then to another school later in New York.

I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.

I was playing sports all the time, and my parents, Anne and John, encouraged me to play in grade school and high school.

I don't know if you've been in any inner-city schools, but it's pretty demoralizing. The kids come to class bright-eyed, enthusiastic - entering first grade really looking forward to school. By the fourth grade they're just completely turned off, and by the time they enter high school, they see little relationship between school and employment. It's bad enough you have incompetent teachers and schools that are poorly run, understaffed, and lack material resources. It's even worse when the kids themselves don't feel they have any stake in school.

I attended the elementary school at Schweinfurt and the secondary school.

I was a very anxious kid. I was bullied at primary school and responded by making myself as anonymous as possible at secondary school.

I grew up as a swimmer, speaking of sports; I spent a lot of time before school and after school swimming.

You see a lot of so-called architecture that part of the ego trip overpowers the functionality and the budget and all that stuff.

I was always an actor, starting in middle school. I was in all the plays and all that. But dancing didn't come into my life until late into high school.

I graduated high school a year early and moved to Los Angeles to go to acting school, which is hilarious.

I got kicked out of high school, went to 3 different high schools and summer school and extra night school just so I could maybe graduate and try to make it up, because I flunked pretty much my entire freshman year, mainly because I just never showed up.

We are all carriers of our own stories. We have never trusted our own voices. Reforms came, but we don't make them. They were presented by people removed from schools, by 'experts'. Such changes bi passes school. School by school changes, however slow, could make a powerful difference.

Fortune is the best school of courage when she is fraught with anger, in the same way as winds and tempests are the school of the sailorboy.

There's certain things in life that I love. One is architecture. And music, culture, food, people. New Orleans has all of that.

I did some school plays in elementary school, but that was it.

I was doing good in school, but I didn't want to do school anymore.

Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.

What makes me sad about school is that the people who are unhappy are unhappy because they don't believe it will change. And I just want to say: 'It does! High school ends and it's over.' I will tell anyone that it's OK to be unhappy at school, make lots of mistakes and then it will be over.

I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona.

The most enjoyable things are the old eighteenth-century terraces that are still standing, that domestic architecture.

When I'm in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary.

I was in theater when I was in elementary, middle school and high school. I didn't know it would be an actual profession for me. I didn't think of it as a reality.

In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.

The best school in the world will scarcely save a boy who hates the school and the purpose it serves and the society that created it.

Think, for a moment, about our educational ladder. We've strengthened the steps lifting students from elementary school to junior high, and those from junior high to high school. But, that critical step taking students from high school into adulthood is badly broken. And it can no longer support the weight it must bear.

I am a full-time mom; that is my first job. The most important job ever. I started my business when he started school. When he is in school, I do my meetings, my sketches, and everything else. I cook him breakfast. Bring him to school. Pick him up. Prepare his lunch. I spend the afternoon with him.

There are many satisfactions in public architecture but one of the greatest is the moment when you unveil a project and suddenly a group of adults

We are from the very middle class family. We have not come from the English medium school. We came from our regional languages school.

In L.A., cinema and television might be seen as more interesting places for architecture than ever before.

My first girlfriend in high school, I had a girlfriend in grade school, but my first girlfriend in high school was Mare Winningham, very fine actress.

I can't imagine going to an all-girls school. I went to a public school.

I had a hard time going back to school after T2. I really didn't want to go to private school.

Architecture remains a passion and a subject I'm very interested in. I learned a great deal from studying it and working in it.

My fear of drama school is that the natural extraordinary but eccentric talent sometimes can't find its place in a drama school. And often that's the greatest talent. And it very much depends on the drama school and how it's run and the teachers. It's a different thing here in America as well because so many of your great actors go to class, which is sort of we don't do in England.

You don't have to follow what most players do by going to the top school. You can do anything at any school you're at, as long as you're focused and you work hard.

Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones.

Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.