Top 1200 Architecture School Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I was pursuing the arts with theater in school, and I was doing after-school activities, but not in any real movement towards a professional career.

Mayo College, where I got my grounding, is a private boarding school. It is a traditional school with brilliant teachers including some from overseas.

Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.

The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain't ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?

Pretty much everyone hates high school. It's a measure of your humanity, I suspect. If you enjoyed high school, you were probably a psychopath or a cheerleader. Or possibly both. Those things aren't mutually exclusive, you know. I've tried to block out the memory of my high school years, but no matter how hard you try, it's always with you, like an unwanted hitchhiker. Or herpes. I assume.

I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.

I listened to a lot of No Doubt stuff when I was in high school - or maybe it was middle school... I don't want to age myself too much!

Architecture is one of the art forms best able to improve and revitalise cities both artistically and functionally.

I was 17, still in school, and my manager saw me in school, and then we hooked up, and after that, I went straight into making music.

You basically have to be willing to devote your life to journalism if you want to break in. Treat it like it's medical school or law school.

At school, I was basically a loner, it was hard until I was 15 or so. Then I went to art school and was gifted with freedom to do the things I really wanted to do.

If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it.

It has always been my dream to open a school for the poor children in the city who drop out of school due to financial problems.

I left school with basically nothing, I was a special needs kid. I did feel as though my school had let me down.

Well, when I moved to L.A. at 17, I had just come out of high school. I grew up and went to public school in Boston.

I first decided architecture was for me when I saw Le Corbusier's designs in a Japanese magazine in the 1930s.

I used to come to school with my school bag hanging on one shoulder and the cricket kit on the other. It was pretty cool and I felt special.

I never even went to high school because I went straight from middle school into the music business. I don't really know what it is supposed to be like.

And as you got older, the training became more developed and precise. We did plays, we had voice classes with great dialect coaches. But I was never into it on a school level; it was this kind of private little thing I did. At school I was a rugby guy. At school I was a rugby guy. I was causing trouble with my mates and skating and tagging buildings, and smoking bongs.

My private work is touched by this destiny of understanding that architecture and engineering have a social character and can serve the community.

I moved across the country when I was 16, so I left my high school and finished school online in order to pursue my acting more.

I was horribly shy all through grade school and high school. But somehow I got up the nerve to audition for one play in high school - 'Auntie Mame.' I got a small part as the fiancee who comes on in the end. I got laughs. I wasn't shy at all doing the part. I can do anything on stage and write it off as a character.

I was also always interested in the aesthetic realm - architecture and that kind of stuff - but music was my first love.

Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing in a repetitive way.

I have a background in technology, design, architecture, arts and sciences. I see myself as a multi-dimensional person.

New York is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses in its architecture, its life, its spirit, the modern thought.

I thought about going to NYU film school - that was this ideal to me. But I didn't make any kind of grades in high school.

In architecture, the demand was no longer for box-like forms, but for buildings that have something to say to the human emotions.

The impact of the creative industries, of design and architecture in particular, are of course economic and they are a great export opportunity.

I was pretty lucky, I went to a really great school. I went to a Steiner School, which is very small and nurturing and creative, so I felt like I was in an environment where I could mature. There was less of the clique-y stuff, which can really make high school a living hell for a lot of people, going on, so I was very similar then to who I am now. I'm still a dork.

I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.

I had a hard time going back to school after T2. I really didnt want to go to private school.

Without federal standards for school lunches, candy bars, packaged snacks and soda can be offered to our children in school.

I finished school, because I started when I was thirteen, so basically around 16 or 17, I just focused on finishing high school.

I used to drum on the table at school. I think a handful of my school reports say that they thought I might have some kind of ADD.

I think my parents wanted me to do something very normal, have a normal person job and not be confronted by the instability of an artistic pursuit, but there wasn't really a lot they could do to stop me. I was, at one point, going to go to law school when I finished high school, but the next day I got accepted into acting school and there was no real question in my mind of what I was going to do.

I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.

I'm from a working-class background - I had free school meals all my life and then spent six years in art school.

I didn't go to acting school, but I've been observing my fellow man for 66 years now, and I would think that's the best school there is.

I always wrote songs. Elementary school, middle school. It didn't feel more creative than speaking. It was just normal to do that.

I promised to finish school, so I'll figure it out I guess. Besides, I'm on a special school for musicians and artists, so I'm not the only one with this life style.

Maybe it will be difficult, but I want to finish school. My parents want me to finish school, and I am pretty sure I will. I will not go to university; I will turn professional when I finish school.

High school is very intense for everyone. But at a boarding school, because you're there 24 hours a day, everything gets magnified.

In the evenings the art of building gave way to that of music, which is architecture, too, though invisible.

In fact, the public will accept any city plan and skyline provided that its architecture is traditional.

I'm inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process.

Get out of bed, go to school, stick at school. Make it happen for yourself because those opportunities are waiting.

I do school online. My favorite thing to do with school is to finish things and then watch it go away, especially when I am working on a laptop.

My mom put me into a performing arts elementary school back in Cincinnati, so I started studying acting in school when I was seven.

This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture.

When I was at school, I used to end every school day with fountain pen ink all over my hands and face and down my shirt.

Parents teach in the toughest school in the world - The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, the classroom teacher, and the janitor.

Like all school students, I think I did a play in my school. The common things, I would say. Nothing really exceptional.

I started making little short films with friends, and then I decided I wanted to get into the school play in high school.

When I was in grade school and high school, I did a lot of chorale singing. And the chorus would be tenor, bass, and alto and soprano.

I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way.

In general, Tor architecture is not suited for protecting anonymity of long-term, popular web services.

We all remember special days at school, whether it was going on a field trip, doing a science experiment, or performing in a school play.

I went to art school for about a year. I was born and raised in the Willamette Valley in Oregon into a middle-class family who didn't have the funds to say, "Here, kid. Here's your money for school." So I worked real hard during the summer and saved money and was able to go to school for a year and borrowed a little money which I paid back after that first year.

I was a strange kid in that, while most kids hate school and want to turn 18 or 21, I loved high school.