Top 1200 Public Buildings Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down.

If one is to use public funds he must accept a responsibility to the public.

I made my mistakes, but in all of my years in public life, I have never profited, never profited from public serviceI have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life, I have never obstructed justice. And I think, too, that I could say that in my years of public life, that I welcome this kind of examination, because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I am not a crook. I have earned everything I have got.

Even though I was away from the public eye, I was in the public memory.

The public be damned! (on whether the public should be consulted about luxury trains Aug 1918

A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.

The vested interests-if we explain the situation by their influence-can only get the public to act as they wish by manipulating public opinion, by playing either upon the public's indifference, confusions, prejudices, pugnacities or fears. And the only way in which the power of the interests can be undermined and their maneuvers defeated is by bringing home to the public the danger of its indifference, the absurdity of its prejudices, or the hollowness of its fears; by showing that it is indifferent to danger where real danger exists; frightened by dangers which are nonexistent.

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

When I was five-years-old I was jumping off two-story buildings.

No architect should design buildings that import a huge amount of energy.

The job of the designer is to make things understandable, usable, accessible, enjoyable... important to a public, that involves the public.

Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.

A full belly to the labourer was, in my opinion, the foundation of public morals and the only source of real public peace.

New York's buildings must be cleaner and more energy-efficient.

I'm not someone who funds buildings. That doesn't interest me. I'm more interested in programs.

If people think of public art as something the public decides, it's impossible to make anything of substance.

Most public officials work hard to serve the public good and abide by Oregon's ethics laws.

Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings.

I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.

I think it's a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

We work for the public, and I believe that if a senator wants to block a piece of legislation or a nominee, they owe the public an explanation.

A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it.

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.

I love the streets of Kolkata, and I admire the old architectural buildings.

Buildings are 'humane' only when they promote peaceful human co-existence.

Chicago is a city built on architecture, and there are plenty of buildings to scale.

I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse and in a republican government more than in any other.

The most significant thing is public participation. That assures the Afghan public that our promises are not empty.

I was always more interested in public service. What I discovered is you could practice law and be a public servant.

You cannot separate the buildings out from the infrastructure of cites and the mobility of transit.

We make our own music, and the songs appeal to the public well, and the public likes them.

Public sentiment is to public officers what water is to the wheel of the mill.

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.

Public libraries are the last vestige of public free space.

There's a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.

When we're dealing with historic buildings, we don't replicate, but we try to be subordinate and be deferential to them.

The public probably knows that teen drivers are at greater risk for fatal accidents. What the public doesn't know is what we ought to do about it.

Well, just as in the quality of public schools, there is massive disparity and the compensation given to the public school teachers.

In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.

I think anything that gets people outside [is good] - I'm a big supporter of public parks and public spaces.

Often the art in New York is related to the buildings, to grandiose things.

I've always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that.

The swells were amazing! As big as three-story apartment buildings!

Recycling old buildings to show art is very important.

You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.

I'm not mainly interested in what buildings mean as symbols or vehicles for ideas.

Public schooling does not serve a public; it creates a pubic.

[Imeachable conduct is] misconduct by public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust.

Our roots are clinging, we shouldn't knock down so many old 'buildings.'

I'm not sure that it matters as much to women as to our male colleagues to have the public adulation and be on the public mind.

The Shark Tank was one of the best buildings to play in, and we had a lot of memories there.

Transparency is for those who carry out public duties and exercise public power. Privacy is for everyone else.

All business begins with the public permission and exists by public approval

If you're going to use the public resources, you need the public benefit.

My first buildings, when I was about 30, were rejected for aesthetic reasons.

The city buildings in the distance are holding up the sky, it seems.

When people generally are aware of a problem, it can be said to have entered the public consciousness. When people get on their hind legs and holler, the problem has not only entered the public consciousness -- it has also become a part of the public conscience. At that point, things in our democracy begin to hum.

There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling.

Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.

In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.