Quotes About Architects And Engineers

#1. Architects and engineers are among the most fortunate of men since they build their own monuments with public consent, public approval and often public money.

John Prebble

#2. Spatial intelligence is virtually left out of formal education. In kindergarten we give children blocks and sand with which to build. Then we take those things away for the next twelve years of their education and expect kids to be architects and engineers.

Ann Lewin-Benham

#3. There is no such thing as spiritual achievement; it is simply an awareness intrinsic to all of life.

Frederick Lenz

#4. I pay two full-time assistants in my studio, plus consultants who are architects, engineers, and landscape architects, as well as lighting designers.

Janet Echelman

#5. And there's an argument to be made that if intentional and thoughtful parenthood is an indicator of parental and family happiness, then having gay parents - parents who weren't able to "accidentally" have a child - may be, in fact, among the better circumstances there are for a child.

Jessica Valenti

#6. Mexico has experimented with political change since the late 1980s.

Enrique Pena Nieto

#7. Our minds thirst for anything that reminds us of the deepest wisdom of the soul.

Vironika Tugaleva

#8. When we compare ourselves to engineers or architects, we are in danger of doing everyone a disservice.

Sam Newman

#9. Night time really is the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone is asleep.

Catherine O'Hara

#10. Bobby Kennedy is so concerned with poverty because he didn't have any as a kid.

Ronald Reagan

#11. When you are serving volunteer professional military, you take an oath to the Constitution, not to a policy or a president and you swear to obey the lawful orders of the democratically elected government. And so at the end of the day you could table your personal political views and do your job.

Nathaniel Fick

#12. Abusers are engineers and architects and janitors and police officers and any other walk of life. There's not a job or profession that is exempt.

Kim Gandy

#13. I think that all architects, structural engineers, educators, and service personnel should have to spend a day in a wheelchair as part of training.

Juli K. Dixon

#14. I feel like every woman is a queen, and we should be treated as such, and we should, you know, sort of request that sort of treatment from others.

Queen Latifah

#15. When we first invested in Colombia, we were buying a lot of coal from Colombia. We were dealing with them daily. I knew their guys at the port, I knew their guys at the mine, I had a feel of the country.

Ivan Glasenberg

#16. When engineers and quantity surveyors discuss aesthetics and architects study what cranes do we are on the right road.

Ove Arup

#17. An incompetent officer can never understand that to apply the law without understanding its spirit is to invite opposition.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#18. Color is a very critical thing. I've found that architects don't like colors. Engineers too. And so somebody has to stand in. Because this is the finish of it. It is the emotional part of a structure.

John Hench

#19. Sitting in a room, alone, listening to a CD is to be lonely. Sitting in a room alone with an LP crackling away, or sitting next to the turntable listening to a song at a time via 7-inch single is enjoying the sublime state of solitude.

Henry Rollins