People Quotes

The family is inclusive of not just your genetic family, but the people that you meet along the way.

~ Jane Seymour

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

For all Italian people, family is very important. We don't fight with our families.

~ Domenico Dolce

People tend to think of Brisbane as a sleepy, sub-topical place. I don't know. It's like Baltimore or something. I don't know. You would hear the family dramas going on behind closed doors.

~ Geoffrey Rush

I think that people with differing points of view find common ground in 'Modern Family' is very flattering, and I'm appreciative of that.

~ Steven Levitan

When my family all got together, I'd always get up and entertain everyone, but it was all a bit of a joke. My first real memory of singing for people was when I was about eleven or 12.

~ Duffy

Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place, and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it.

~ Frank Gehry

I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.

~ Tadao Ando

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

~ Maya Lin

The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our endeavour to build an earthly paradise for people.

~ Alvar Aalto

People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming.

~ Rem Koolhaas

Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.

~ John Portman

Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. But if you make bad architecture, you impose ugliness on a place for a hundred years.

~ Renzo Piano

I have played a few times in Barcelona, including the fantastic Olympic Stadium. It's undoubtedly one of my favourite cities in terms of the people, arts, food, architecture and design.

~ Jean-Michel Jarre

When you have rules to abide by, does that curtail you as a designer, or set you free? People think of classical architecture visually, but I think the brilliant part of it is actually spatial.

~ Annabelle Selldorf

I would like to use architecture to create bonds between people who live in cities, and even use it to recover the communities that used to exist in every single city.

~ Toyo Ito

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

~ Louis Kahn

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.

~ Richard Meier

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 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

There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture. But that doesn't hold up.

~ Frank Gehry

One of the stated goals of the postmodern movement in architecture was a greater sensitivity to the people who live in or use newly designed buildings.

~ Martin Filler

What people want, above all, is order.

~ Stephen Gardiner

I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.

~ Tadao Ando

You are a victim of your own neural architecture which doesn't permit you to imagine anything outside of three dimensions. Even two dimensions. People know they can't visualise four or five dimensions, but they think they can close their eyes and see two dimensions. But they can't.

~ Leonard Susskind

People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.

~ Marc Newson

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

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

People are moving into modes of participation and self-generation, which apply to everything from museums and television to architecture.

~ Jake Barton

No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.

~ Michael Ende

The show is called 'The Office,' and while it focuses on the people, the architecture of the space is very important.

~ Brian Baumgartner

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

The Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, the constitutions of the several states, and the organic laws of the territories all alike propose to protect the people in the exercise of their God-given rights. Not one of them pretends to bestow rights.

~ Susan B. Anthony

It is hard to conceive of the utter demoralization, of the political blindness and immorality, of the patriotic dishonesty, of the cruelty and degradation of a people who supplemented the incomparable Declaration of Independence with the Fugitive Slave Law.

~ Robert Green Ingersoll

Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.

~ Ferdinand Marcos

All I can do is advocate changes at the BBC while respecting editorial independence upon which the success of the BBC rests. I can't do anything that requires the BBC to pay certain people certain amounts.

~ Jeremy Hunt

Socialism is a sacred cause for realizing the demand and desire of the masses of the people for independence it is a revolutionary cause that advances amid a fierce struggle against imperialism and all other counterrevolutionary forces.

~ Kim Jong-Un

Externally China desires independence, internally she seeks to maintain her existence as a nation; China therefore strives to loose the bonds that bind her people, and to complete the establishment of a new State.

~ Chiang Kai-Shek

In England the judges should have independence to protect the people against the crown. Here the judges should not be independent of the people, but be appointed for not more than seven years. The people would always re-elect the good judges.

~ Andrew Jackson

You go back and you read your Constitution. You read your Declaration of Independence. And you will see that the only people who could decide these freedoms were white males who owned property, and all the rest of us were excluded.

~ John Trudell