Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?' Frank Zappa: 'You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?
Japan's humid and warm summer climate, as well as frequent earthquakes resulted in lightweight timber buildings raised off the ground that are resistant to earth tremors.
From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber.
St. Petersburg is a wonderful city. You have wonderful parks, birds singing in the trees, manatees in the water, pelicans. So it's like this little paradise on Earth.
Everyone is aware that most of the built environment today lacks a natural order, an order which presents itself very strongly in places that were built centuries ago.
Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there.
I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building.
I think there will be a 200-story skyscraper someday. However, it will require a developer who will not think in conventional terms and for whom economic restraints won't apply.
Never turn down a job because you think it's too small; you don't know where it can lead.
'Form follows function' comes with so much baggage. It's a worthless phrase because you'll never take it for what it means.
The quality of the Neues Museum's construction is extraordinary even by German standards, and people can smell that quality. The concept would not have been so convincing without it.
Good ideas come from everywhere. It's more important to recognize a good idea than to author it.
Frank Booth: What kind of beer do you like? Jeffrey Beaumont: Heineken. Frank Booth: [shouting] Heineken? Fuck that shit! Pabst Blue Ribbon!
I'm not a fashion architect. I don't dress in Ralph Lauren and Gucci. When I buy a suit, I buy it at J. Press. I have a blue blazer that I wear 80 percent of the time.
Frank Costello: You do well in school? Young Colin: Yeah Frank Costello: Good. So did I. They call that a paradox.
[Frank D'Amico is about to shoot Hit-Girl, sees Dave] Dave Lizewski: [pointing a bazooka at Frank] Why don't you pick on someone your own size?
Chris D'Amico: Dad, you better fire this asshole! Frank D'Amico: Ignore him... a bazooka? [the huge goon nods] Frank D'Amico: OK.
Elvira Hancock: [getting into his car] What would Frank say? Tony Montana: I like Frank, you know. Only I like you better.
Lt. Col. Frank Slade: How's your skin, son? Charlie Simms: My skin, sir? Lt. Col. Frank Slade: Oh, for Christ's sake.
Frank: [to a crow eating a dead body] Get out of it. [stands] Frank: Get out of it! [kicks fence]
Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.
