Sometimes I have to accept a job I don't really want. Hardly anybody comes up to you with a commission; it's all competitions these days.
A building is hard to judge. It takes many years to find out whether it works. It's not as simple as asking the people in the office whether they like it.
Washington is the only city in the world where you can go to a black-tie dinner and there at the foot of the table is a television set up to catch a press conference.
When I went to college, I thought I was going to become a professional musician. I was a French horn player, so I went to Yale to study with a very unusual French horn player.
I always say, 'What if you had to sell the house tomorrow?' And if it's too idiosyncratic, someone won't buy it and then it's a bad house.
Raymond: Do you want me to pour it Frank? Frank Booth: No I want you to fuck it. Shit, yes, pour the fuckin' beer!
Frank Booth: We got to go to Ben's, right? Paul: Right, we've got to see Ben. Frank Booth: Oh yeah, we got to, got to, got to, got to.
Wolf: I'm Wolf. Where did they transfer you from? Frank Morris: Atlanta. Wolf: Nice town, Atlanta. Frank Morris: I never saw it.
Sheryl: [after Frank tried to commit suicide] I'm so glad you're still here. Frank: Well, that makes one of us.
Frank: [reading what Dwayne is writing on his notepad] But. I. Am. Not. Going. To. Have. Any. Fun. Frank: Yeah, we're all with ya on that one, Dwayne.
[the origin of her nickname] Hotlips O'Houlihan: [to Frank Burns, during sex, not knowing everyone is listening] Oh, Frank, my lips are hot! Kiss my hot lips!
Elvira: So do you want to dance, Frank, or do you want to sit there and have a heart attack? Frank Lopez: Me, dance? Hey, I think I wanna have a heart attack.
I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space.
I'm not so interested in technology for technology's sake. I don't need incredibly sophisticated climate-control systems. And I'm absolutely amazed at the time people spend exchanging messages; I don't have a lot of time left over for those things.
Yes, but I view Frank's music as fully composed. In other words, the arrangements can work for any idiom such as a rock band or an orchestra. Frank was a brilliant arranger and could make his music work in any context. He proved that tour after tour ...
Frank Slaughtery: You know what a man should never ask in a Victoria's Secret shop, Jake? Jakob Elinsky: What? Frank Slaughtery: "Does this come in children's sizes?"
Jakob Elinsky: I kissed her. Frank Slaughtery: You what? Jakob Elinsky: My student. I, I kissed her. Frank Slaughtery: Who are you trying to be... R. Kelly?
Detective Richie Roberts: Good work Frank. You... want a drink or something? Celebrate? Frank Lucas: You got any holy water?
The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.
We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single uninterrupted whole.
Remember that a noble logical diagram, once recorded, will never die; long after we are gone, it will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.
