Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It s courage that counts.
Freedom is taking control of the rudder of your life.
I hated my work. It never seemed to me to be what I should be doing.
I hated that the soldier doll had my name. I mean, please. I didn't play with him much. He was another Christmas present from my clueless grandparents. One time when they were visiting, my grandpa asked me if G.I. Joe had been in any wars lately. I s...
Joe: You see, I understand you men were just playin' around, but the mule, he just doesn't get it. Course, if you were to all apologize... [Men Laugh] Joe: I don't think it's nice, you laughin'. You see, my mule don't like people laughing. He gets th...
Big Joe: [shouting to the captured German Colonel] Look! We're not worried about the German army, we've got enough troubles of our own. To the right General Patton, to the left the British Army, to the rear our own goddamn artillery, and besides all ...
Betty Schaefer: Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Gillis, but I just didn't think it was any good. I found it flat and trite. Joe Gillis: Exactly what kind of material do you recommend? James Joyce? Dostoyevsky? Betty Schaefer: I just think that pictures should say...
Grandpa Joe: [viewing the Wonka-mobile being fueled] Mr. Wonka? Uh, what's that they're filling it up with? Willy Wonka: Oh ginger ale, ginger pop, ginger beer, beer bubbles, bubbleade, bubblecola, double cola, double-bubble-burple-cola, and all the ...
You can't ask every player to do the same thing. That's why we have amazing midfielders, defenders, forwards and keepers. You can't ask them to be of the same mold.
Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.
Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.
Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.
We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.
In L.A., cinema and television might be seen as more interesting places for architecture than ever before.
It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.
All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.
Architecture has its place in the concrete world. This is where it exists. This is where it makes its statement.
Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.
In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years.
You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony.
Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser.
