Me Quotes

My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys.

~ Bobby Darin

My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, 'Hey, I'm rich'.

~ Charles Barkley

Probably the earliest memories for me would be going to restaurants with my family.

~ Alexander Wang

The things that make me happy most are my family and working.

~ Damon Albarn

And when I retired, trust me, not only did Nolan Ryan, but the entire Ryan family had withdrawals from baseball. And it was tough.

~ Nolan Ryan

My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.

~ Julia Morgan

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.

~ Luis Barragán

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

~ Maya Lin

For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible.

~ Bjarke Ingels

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

~ Oscar Niemeyer

Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do this.' 'Oh, the budget.' I don't believe that anymore.

~ Frank Gehry

To me, architecture is an art, naturally, and it isn't architecture unless it's alive. Alive is what art is. If it's not alive, it's dead, and it's not art.

~ John Lautner

To me... San Francisco is an ideal city, intellectually stimulating and naturally beautiful. The oceans and forests are close enough to refresh the spirit; the architecture is always exciting.

~ Ruth Bernhard

If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.

~ Louis Kahn

I initially thought I would be an architect, maybe. So I went to architecture camp and quickly learned that I did not want to be an architect. I was like, 'No. This is not for me.'

~ Robin Lord Taylor

To me, form doesn't always follow function. Form has a life of its own, and at times, it may be the motivating force in design. When you're dealing with form as a sculptor, you feel that you are quite free in attempting to mould and shape things you want to do, but in architecture, it's much more difficult because it has to have a function.

~ I. M. Pei

To me it was fascinating, the idea of going to university and studying a subject - architecture - that I had already faced in building some small houses.

~ Mario Botta

Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.

~ Louis Kahn

People wouldn't know this about me, but I adore ball gowns. I love their cut, their architecture and the thought of the hands of so many seamstresses working on them.

~ Patti Smith

I see only one requirement you have to have to be a director or any kind of artist: rhythm. Rhythm, for me, is everything. Without rhythm, there's no music. Without rhythm, there's no cinema. Without rhythm, there's no architecture.

~ Alejandro González Iñárritu

It was my interest in happiness that led me to the subject of habits, and of course, the study of habits is really the study of happiness. Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life, and a significant element of happiness.

~ Gretchen Rubin

Music, architecture and pictures have always been my passions, and all that material wealth has meant for me, is being able to have some of the pictures I liked.

~ Andrew Lloyd Webber

When I visit any cathedral, it reminds me of being with my grandparents. They weren't particularly religious, but my grandfather was obsessed with architecture.

~ Jonathan Anderson

If I weren't involved with food, I'd be working in architecture. Design is that critical to me.

~ Alice Waters

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

~ Maya Lin

Considering my specialization in architecture, I'm not surprised that the first graphic novel to thoroughly engage, not to say captivate, me is Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor's 'Batman: Death by Design.'

~ Martin Filler

Being interested in other fields and meeting experts outside entertainment - whether it's a two-hour conversation with John Nash that turns into 'A Beautiful Mind' or talking to people in architecture or fashion, CIA directors or Nobel laureates - has given me a better sense of which ideas feel authentic and new.

~ Brian Grazer

The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.

~ Christopher Nolan

As the OLPC laptop was getting ready to go into mass production in 2007, many executives approached me wanting the screen that I invented, and the laptop architecture that I co-invented, for their new laptops, cell phones, and other devices.

~ Mary Lou Jepsen

After my schooling, I was not thrilled by the idea of treading the usual doctor-engineer line. I wanted to pursue something artistic, and I was good at drawing. The options before me were architecture, fashion, and interior designing.

~ Keerthy Suresh

I'm working on a school of architecture in China. It's rare that an architect gets to design a school of architecture, and here I get to do it. I'm so pleased that they asked me.

~ Michael Graves

Architecture to me is whole. I cannot say I only care about this 25% and the other 75% I let go... it's just I want to work the way I want to work. In my shop, you can order certain things and other things you cannot. They are not available.

~ Peter Zumthor

I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines.

~ William Devane

God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is, at least for me, an abuse of paper.

~ Alvar Aalto

As architects we are often involved in the concrete-steel-and-glass aspect of it, but cities are social structures, and to be involved in imagining the future of cities and the type of relationships and the types of places that we're making is something that intrigues me very much.

~ Michael Arad

I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.

~ I. M. Pei

I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there.

~ I. M. Pei

That Moorish architecture is all over the place, of course. It affects me everywhere I see it, as it does so many people. But Brand Library was a special place to me, and I know I've paid homage to it many times in my drawings.

~ Jim Woodring

I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out.

~ Art Garfunkel

I practised as an architect for 10 years. I qualified in 1973 with a fellowship diploma of architecture. World Series Cricket gave me the freedom to go out and pursue architecture.

~ Max Walker