Great Quotes

I love Chicago. It's one of the great cities. I'm crazy about the town. It reminds me of New York when it was at its best, the New York that used to be and is no more. I love the architecture, the old stuff and the new stuff.

~ Peter Falk

Itjtawy was ancient Egypt's capital for over four hundred years, at a period of time called the Middle Kingdom about four thousand years ago. The site is located in the Faiyum of Egypt, and the site is really important because in the Middle Kingdom there was this great renaissance for ancient Egyptian art, architecture and religion.

~ Sarah Parcak

I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to the Parthenon, to Chartres, to the Sydney Opera House. They go to Bilbao... Something compels them, and yet we live surrounded by everything but great architecture.

~ Frank Gehry

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

~ Arthur Erickson

I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at the crossroads of several great, elaborate cultures with their own mythology and religion and art and architecture and cultural belief. In fact, so many of the mythologies of the world describe the same events, just from different points of view.

~ Harold Ramis

Truly great architecture always transcends its stated function, sometimes in unanticipated ways.

~ Martin Filler

I always wanted to be an actor, but I always loved design, and growing up in New Orleans there was such great style, great architecture. I would decorate my little apartment in New York over and over again, because it only had a couple of rooms. And I did it for friends and family on the side just for fun.

~ Bryan Batt

Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.

~ Tadao Ando

When I'm in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary.

~ Roman Coppola

The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics.

~ Jay Chiat

After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings.

~ Harry Seidler

Some people think architecture is about the genius sketch I don't. Great architecture is a collaboration among a lot of people over a long period of time.

~ Joshua Prince-Ramus

Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made.

~ Joshua Prince-Ramus

There will never be great architects or architecture without great patrons.

~ Edwin Lutyens

Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great.

~ Enid Nemy

I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances.

~ Thomas Frank

What we want, above all things on earth in our public men, is independence. It is one great defect in the character of the public men of America that there is that real want of independence; and, in this respect, a most marked contrast exists between public men in this country and in Great Britain.

~ John C. Calhoun

I don't have luxurious tastes or great needs, but my independence is worth a lot to me.

~ Emmanuel Macron

I was brought up in great tenderness, and though my mind was proud to independence, I was never led to much independence of feeling.

~ William Godwin

It's great that with the Internet, there has come this sense of creative independence.

~ Tavi Gevinson

Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.

~ Alan Dershowitz

An unlimited America was the vision for the nation set forth by our Founding Fathers. It is the vision enshrined in those two great charters of freedom: our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. Many of America's most intractable problems stem from the fact that we have strayed from that vision - and lost direction.

~ Sam Brownback

Senator Udall focused his entire campaign as a social-issues warrior, and that was rejected by the people of Colorado, who embraced our plan of creating jobs and opportunity, growing energy independence, looking at education opportunities for the future, and making sure we're focused on protecting this great Colorado environment.

~ Cory Gardner

I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that's ever lived. He lived in the 18th century; as you all know, he was an Englishman who was involved in the writing of American Declaration of Independence, the American Constitution, the French Constitution, wrote the great book called 'The Rights of Man' - commercial over.

~ Richard Attenborough

Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon this Government.

~ Robert Toombs

The great medley of Oregon and California emigrants, at their camps around Independence, had heard reports that several additional parties were on the point of setting out from St. Joseph's farther to the northward.

~ Francis Parkman

In January 1776, Thomas Paine issued 'Common Sense,' advocating independence from Great Britain.

~ Mike Crapo

Where there is great love, there are always wishes.

~ Willa Cather

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

~ Confucius

I see travelling as a great learning process, and my biggest dream is to travel the world.

~ Pooja Hegde

It helps immerse yourself in what you potentially want to do. Being involved, learning firsthand and observing the craft and absorbing all you can, makes it easier to define what you want. It will also ultimately make you a better Chef. Culinary school, or even a single class, is a great bet too.

~ Giada De Laurentiis

While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.

~ Lewis Carroll

At Microsoft, we're aspiring to have a living, learning culture with a growth mindset that allows us to learn from ourselves and our customers. These are the key attributes of the new culture at Microsoft, and I feel great about how it seems to be resonating and how it's seen as empowering.

~ Satya Nadella

You're never too old to start learning, and you're never too young to aim high and achieve great things.

~ Asa Hutchinson

The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.

~ M. Scott Peck

I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.

~ Yo-Yo Ma

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

~ Plato

I consider myself an atheist. My wife is Jewish. And I'm fine with my son being raised as a Jew. He's learning Hebrew and is really into it. I will talk to my own son about my atheism when the time is right. But there's a great tradition of Jewish atheism, there are no better atheists in the world than the Jews.

~ Paul Giamatti

Learning how to keep track of inventory and cash flow and creating an income statement and a balance sheet are great skills to learn for managing existing businesses.

~ Steve Blank

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

~ William Hazlitt