Top 80 Meier Quotes
#1. Katie leaned forward conspiratorially. Oh, sweetie, I just said that because Alice is an old bag. You go after Devon. The man is fine. I don't blame you for changing your look for a shot at that. When the pool about you two gets going at Petie's Pub, I'm putting my money on you.
Susan Meier
#2. Only secretly rebellious teachers have ever done right by our least advantaged kids.
Deborah Meier
#3. It was the eternal conundrum. Time passed too slowly, and then it was over too quickly. Hurry up and die.
Leslie Meier
#4. No longer mere earthbeings and planetbeings are we, but bright children of the stars! And together we shall dance in and out of ten billion years, celebrating the gift of consciousness until the stars themselves grow cold and weary, and our thoughts turn again to the beginning.
Sid Meier
#5. How had she ever thought sleeping with him would be a stress reliever, when he was the biggest producer of her stress?
Susan Meier
#6. We are all carriers of our own stories. We have never trusted our own voices. Reforms came, but we don't make them. They were presented by people removed from schools, by 'experts'. Such changes bi passes school. School by school changes, however slow, could make a powerful difference.
Deborah Meier
#7. An important work of architecture will create polemics.
Richard Meier
#8. Gaiaguys are free to think for themselves, and since their translations of our texts - even if these are of a preliminary nature - are sought for by many people, we see no reason for withdrawing our permission.
Billy Meier
#9. The feeling of freedom, driving into scenery as green and lush as a postcard of Ireland was close to bliss.
Diane Meier
#10. We are all affected by Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, and Mies van der Rohe. But no less than Bramante, Borromini, and Bernini. Architecture is a tradition, a long continuum. Whether we break with tradition or enhance it, we are still connected to that past. We evolve.
Richard Meier
#11. I regard a human being as simply a human being, whether he is from this world or another, or whether he is a beggar, or God in person, and whether he is ignorant or wise, they are all of equal right. No one has more right than any other, and nobody is more than any other.
Billy Meier
#12. In passion we trust, for passion finds infinity and says that is how many ways I can exist.
Corinne Meier
#13. This is what dating is like, I thought, this horrible mix of boredom and fear and humiliation and confusion.
Diane Meier
#14. I like some shooters, and I respect games like Doom, but I don't think it's right for me.
Sid Meier
#15. A game is a series of interesting choices.
Sid Meier
#16. I've been to livelier funerals," grumbled Herb.
Leslie Meier
#17. Dinosaurs was a cool idea, but we just couldn't find a way to make it really fun. We've got a bunch of great game ideas that we want to bring to life over the next several years.
Sid Meier
#18. Teaching is mostly listening, and learning is mostly telling.
Deborah Meier
#19. Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity.
Deborah Meier
#20. I love Age of Empires and I play RTS games all the time, I respect what they've accomplished.
Sid Meier
#21. I doubt that I've ever touched the
heart of a man that I let touch the
inside of me.
Lindsay Rae Meier
#22. You cannot live life on what feels good. If we live our lives based on our desires, based on our feelings, we will lose our lives" (Pastor Phil Dvorak).
Paul Meier
#23. I like games that are simple. Not games that are trivial, but also not games that require you to invest a week or to relearn something. I like games that you can just pick up, sit down in front of, and get going.
Sid Meier
#24. Lucy Stone wasn't usually a clock watcher. Time didn't pass slowly for her; it galloped ahead of her.
Leslie Meier
#25. It may be that other developers are finding that their games play better on one platform over the other, so they're choosing to migrate to that platform.
Sid Meier
#26. The only thing they [government] want is better data. But data doesn't tell people someone is well educated. It's a vicious circle. There is some myth involved. Some of this attitude has a long history.
Deborah Meier
#27. When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like to believe that architecture connects the present with the past and the tangible with the intangible.
Richard Meier
#28. Da5id Meier, supreme hacker overlord, founding father of the Metaverse protocol, creator and proprietor of the world-famous Black Sun, has just suffered a system crash. He's been thrown out of his own bar by his own daemons.
Neal Stephenson
#29. Jesus turned the list of hundreds and hundreds of don'ts into three simple do's. Love God, love your neighbors, and love yourself; do this and all the other laws will fall into place.
Paul D. Meier
#30. I want that at my funeral," said Pam. "I want to be carried out on the shoulders of six stalwart young men. Preferably in loincloths.
Leslie Meier
#31. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.
Sid Meier
#32. I think computing power is ready to do 3D justice. It was great for shooters and racing games in the past, but I didn't think it was right for strategy games.
Sid Meier
#33. When Devon Donovan's family buys Isabelle Cooper's florist shop as an investment, she isn't sure if it's the worst thing that could happen ... or her golden opportunity to get the gorgeous billionaire to finally notice her.
Susan Meier
#34. Murder was apparently too common-place in the big city to attract much notice.
Poor Luther, thought Lucy, as she headed back to the hotel. Even in death he was only a big fish in a small pond.
Leslie Meier
#35. Veronica holds up her blood- and sweat-streaked cloth for us to see the image of Christ imprinted on it. All those who suffer and all those who minister to them bear the image of Christ.
Judith A. Meier
#36. She marched along, wondering how it could be that some people had to work their fingers to the bone and risk their lives in order to make a living and others could just sail around in the lap of luxury.
Leslie Meier
#37. The responsibility of an architect is to create a sense of order, a sense of place, a sense of relationship.
Richard Meier
#38. If you define yourself as someone fixing education, there's nothing short-range you can do to fix education directly. It's labor intensive. You have to change the way people act. You have to convince people, and change people.
Deborah Meier
#39. Mia looked upward and mouthed a thank you to the universe.
Nicole Meier
#40. As she dressed that night, Lucy remembered Catherine's words: "If it's true, it isn't libel.
Leslie Meier
#41. Architecture which enters into a symbiosis with light does not merely create form in light, by day and at night, but allow light to become form.
Richard Meier
#42. When I think of a place of worship, I think of a place where one can sit and be reminded of all the things that are important outside our individual lives. To express spirituality, the architect has to think of the original material of architecture, space and light.
Richard Meier
#43. It's a small-town rule: Never speak ill of the dead until the estate has paid the outstanding bills.
Leslie Meier
#44. If looks could kill, she'd be a dead woman.
Leslie Meier
#45. Our approach to making games is to find the fun first and then use the technology to enhance the fun.
Sid Meier
#46. A girl had to do what a girl had to do and it looked as if this girl's immediate future included chicken Caesar salad, chocolate cake, and Cary Grant.
Leslie Meier
#48. A passion for learning ... isn't something you have to inspire with; it's something you have to keep from extinguishing.
Deborah Meier
#49. Call me Meier, Goring said, but he did not pause to explain the joke .
Philip Jose Farmer
#50. My kitchen in New York City is in the Richard Meier building on Perry Street, so it's ultra-modern: white, glass and transparent. It's 180 square feet, with an induction stove. Everything's hidden, so you don't see the microwave or the fridge.
Jean-Georges Vongerichten
#51. Lucy had no complaints about her dinner. Anything was fine with her as long as she didn't have to cook it.
Leslie Meier
#52. Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.
Richard Meier
#53. Change rarely happens in doses large enough to choke you. Everyday you swallow a little more and expect a little less.
Diane Meier
#54. If you ask me, taking on risk and being more daring is a real important part of creativity.
Deborah Meier
#55. It's only natural," said Phyllis. "Lord Grantham certainly wasn't very excited about Matthew's newfangled ideas for the estate.
Leslie Meier
#56. Right now we're working on finishing up Pirates! for the Xbox, we're developing Civilization IV and we've got a couple other games in development that we'll tell you about soon.
Sid Meier
#57. Richard Meier told me, 'Young man, solar energy has nothing to do with architecture,'
William McDonough
#58. There are photographs of people you don't recognize and photographs of you in ways you don't wish to be remembered, but they each contain elements of places or times you do not wish to forget.
Diane Meier
#60. 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
#61. It's the curiosity that drives me. It's making a difference in the world that prevents me from ever giving up.
Deborah Meier
#64. The art of good teaching begins when we can answer the questions our students are really trying to ask us, if only they knew how to do so.
Deborah Meier
#65. We are forced to extend ourselves in any effort to touch our dreams
CHARLES MEIER
#66. I think white is the most wonderful color of all, because within it one can find every color of the rainbow.
Richard Meier
#67. The new Pirates! builds on that legacy delivering an even more powerful and fun experience to players ... and is still unmatched in offering a blend of genres in one great game.
Sid Meier
#68. But I remember the place with fondness ... not perfect but, all in all, not a bad memory.
Diane Meier
#69. After all, moms were appreciated only on Mother's Day. That's why they invented it. So they could treat you like a household appliance the rest of the year.
Leslie Meier
#70. The spiritual consciousness is never deceived
Billy Meier
#71. Maybe he was just a crazy guy who liked funerals." Phyllis was applying polish topcoat with all the care of Michelangelo painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. "Nobody goes to funerals for fun," said Lucy,
Leslie Meier
#72. A good game impresses you with what you're doing. I think that's a fundamental difference that I as a game designer need to recede in the background.
Sid Meier
#73. We think we've got it taken care of now. Multiplayer is something that's hard to do in a turn-based game, especially a turn-based game that lasts a long time, like Civilization.
Sid Meier
#74. We'd love to do Pirates for the 21st century. People have also asked about Colonization, and a few others.
Sid Meier
#75. Our goal has been to stay true to what people most love about the original Pirates! while upgrading, enhancing, and in some cases, re-inventing the game to make it a great experience for today's gamers.
Sid Meier
#76. Some people thought that if you put pressure on kids, parents, and teachers and schools, the pressure alone would produce results. It appealed to people who think the quick fix for education is to threaten people. It's not a left-right division.
Deborah Meier
#77. Our hope is to deliver an incredibly fun and compelling game that will give the fans more than what they've been waiting for, and show a whole new generation of gamers how much fun it is to live the life of a pirate!
Sid Meier
#78. When anyone gives a promise, then such should be kept, and so under any circumstance.
Billy Meier
#79. The stunted pines elude capture
in a thousand sidetracked increments.
The wind will never understand them.
Like us it is forced to go on.
Richard Meier
#80. I might not yet be falling in love, but I might be flirting with the promise of love, the idea of love, the making of a place in my heart for love, though it may have been more a wish than a promise.
Diane Meier