Architectural Terms Quotes

#1. I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building.

Ian McEwan

#2. The Crystal Cathedral is not an attempt to be an architectural ego-statement. It's probably the ultimate spiritual and psychological statement that could be made in architectural terms.

Robert H. Schuller

#3. What Heaven detests, who knows why? Even the sage considers it difficult.

Laozi

#4. I fought, I fought harder ... but one cell at a time, panic crept into my body, taking me over.

Jesse Owens

#5. No man esteems anything that comes to him by chance; but when it is governed by reason, it brings credit both to the giver and receiver; whereas those favors are in some sort scandalous that make a man ashamed of his patron.

Seneca The Younger

#6. If I told you God was black, what would you think of that?

Ray Davies

#7. I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure. These abstractions play a role in many other disciplines, and those disciplines are now defining their 'architectures' as well.

Rem Koolhaas

#8. Besides it's as nothing to the death of a child. He doesn't mind telling you his faith was sorely tried. There's no grief like a parent's.

Eimear McBride

#9. On a scale from one to ten, the Pack was eleven and everything else a one.

Ilona Andrews

#10. I'm not going to lie. I am a psycho. Luckily, I get most of it out on stage.

Bill Burr

#11. Never Say I Failed 99 Times, Say I Discovered 99 Ways Which Causes Failure!

Thomas A. Edison

#12. So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love.

Rita Mae Brown

#13. All of the great empires of the future will be empires of the mind.

Winston S. Churchill

#14. They say a good soldier fights a battle, never a war. That's for civilians.

John Steinbeck