Quotes of: Frankness Keyword

Higher ceilings allow the use indirect lighting, which is much healthier and reduces glare.

Helmut Jahn

In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition.

Helmut Jahn

Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical idea, it's also an intellectual one.

Helmut Jahn

I don't consider myself a star or a celebrity. I'm a simple guy who works a lot.

Helmut Jahn

When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.

Hugh Newell Jacobsen

My favorite singer to this day is Nat King Cole. I've tried to emulate his phrasing. It is so absolutely beautiful to listen to his lovely voice.

Johnny Mathis

I generally hate the luxury modern apartment with too many things out of sight and so clean you cannot touch.

Jean Nouvel

I kind of cherish at least the idea of Midwestern candor and openness. But I couldn't live there.

James Polshek

I'm interested in the gene bank of how Americans have built in different regions in different times.

Jaquelin T. Robertson

There's a difference between the blues of the New Orleans guys and anyone else and the difference is in a chord, but I can't figure the name of it. It's a different chord, and they all make it.

Jimmy Rushing

My concerns have been about myself and not about giving something back and putting something in, even though that's been in the back of my head.

Donald Byrd

Here in Seattle, I'm the most productive I've ever been. I don't allow myself personal distractions. I'm extremely disciplined here.

Donald Byrd

You don't restore 'The Last Supper' by filling in the missing bits - you preserve. You accept the material that has somehow survived.

David Chipperfield

I really love jazz, but I will never be a jazz musician as much as I dream. But, I think that the jazz music I love is there in my music.

Laura Mvula

A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time.

Maya Lin

Nicholas Angel: [Trying to stop Frank Butterman from killing Danny] Pack it in Frank you daft bastard!

Hot Fuzz

Gwenovier: Come on, Frank. What are you doing? Frank T.J. Mackey: What am I doing? I'm quietly judging you.

Magnolia

Frank Serpico: I'm a marked man in this department. For what? District Attorney Tauber: I've already arranged a transfer for ya'. Frank Serpico: To where? China?

Serpico

Capt. Insp. McClain: Frank, has anyone ever told you that you have a tendency toward self-pity? Frank Serpico: No, you're the first.

Serpico

I guess I want to make money just like other people, perhaps more than most people.

Philip Johnson

It's Frank's painting on the cover. We were originally going to use a Salvador Dali painting that we got permission from Salvador Dali to use, and Frank found this one, and it really did fit the music much more.

Alice Cooper