Quotes of: Frankness Keyword

The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts - to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of.

Gary Lucas

I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building.

Helmut Jahn

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.

Helmut Jahn

Never turn down a job because you think it's too small; you don't know where it can lead.

Julia Morgan

'Form follows function' comes with so much baggage. It's a worthless phrase because you'll never take it for what it means.

Joshua Prince-Ramus

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.

David Chipperfield

Good ideas come from everywhere. It's more important to recognize a good idea than to author it.

Jeanne Gang

Frank Booth: What kind of beer do you like? Jeffrey Beaumont: Heineken. Frank Booth: [shouting] Heineken? Fuck that shit! Pabst Blue Ribbon!

Blue Velvet

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.

Peter Eisenman

Frank Costello: You do well in school? Young Colin: Yeah Frank Costello: Good. So did I. They call that a paradox.

The Departed

[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?

Kick-Ass

Chris D'Amico: Dad, you better fire this asshole! Frank D'Amico: Ignore him... a bazooka? [the huge goon nods] Frank D'Amico: OK.

Kick-Ass

Elvira Hancock: [getting into his car] What would Frank say? Tony Montana: I like Frank, you know. Only I like you better.

Scarface

Lt. Col. Frank Slade: How's your skin, son? Charlie Simms: My skin, sir? Lt. Col. Frank Slade: Oh, for Christ's sake.

Scent of a Woman

Ultimately, at the end of it, it's just trying to get into that space where you feel like you're hitting the right thing and you're making music. And it feels intuitive rather than being counterintuitive.

Charlie Hunter

I thought that I would like to be affiliated with some school or institution. As time went on, I also decided on the subject that I wanted to get involved with in addition to music: it was Black Studies.

Donald Byrd

Anything I do has to have integrity, so if you just want to make music, it's not difficult finding support. The hard part for a publicist or manager is making a star.

Esperanza Spalding

I try to get the hip-hop aesthetic, most times without an MC. I don't use a rapper or a DJ to give it the hip-hop style; it's strictly the band that makes that music, which is a lot harder to do.

Robert Glasper

Frank: [to a crow eating a dead body] Get out of it. [stands] Frank: Get out of it! [kicks fence]

28 Days Later...

Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.

Arthur Erickson

The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation.

Arthur Erickson