Quotes and Sayings About Bad Ass
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Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
-- Adolf Loos -
I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women's movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history when men - insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchal idea - have become dangerous to children and other living things, themselves included
-- Adrienne Rich -
I'm a kind person, I'm kind to everyone, but if you are unkind to me, then kindness is not what you'll remember me for
-- Al Capone -
Truly creative people care a little about what they have done, and a lot about what they are doing. Their driving focus is the life force that surges in them now.
-- Alan Cohen -
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
-- Albert Camus -
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
-- Albert Camus -
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.
-- Albert Camus -
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
I used to have a wild night with three women until 5am., but I am getting older. In the Olympic village here, I will live it up with five women, but only until 3am.
-- Alberto Tomba -
I wouldn't say I'm a feminist, but I don't like girls pretending to be stupid because it's easier.
-- Amy Winehouse -
Tell the negative committee that meets inside your head to sit down and shut up.
-- Ann B. Davis -
Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith there is no anxiety and no doubt - just absolute confidence in yourself.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit!
-- Augustus -
In pure architecture the smallest detail should have a meaning or serve a purpose.
-- Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin -
I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
-- Ayn Rand -
I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
-- Ayn Rand -
The process begins with the individual woman’s acceptance that American women, without exception, are socialized to be racist, classist and sexist, in varying degrees, and that labeling ourselves feminists does not change the fact that we must consciously work to rid ourselves of the legacy of negative socialization.
-- Bell Hooks -
We've dressed up in our best and are prepared to go down like gentlemen.
-- Benjamin Guggenheim -
Aging is not 'lost youth,' but a new stage of opportunity and strength. It's a different stage of life, and if you are going to pretend it's youth, you are going to miss it. You are going to miss the surprises, the possibilities, and the evolution that we are just beginning to know about because there are no role models, no guideposts, and no signs.
-- Betty Friedan -
We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.
-- Bill Bryson -
A design isn't finished until someone is using it.
-- Brenda Laurel -
An object should be judged by whether it has a form consistent with its use.
-- Bruno Munari -
Just keep coming home to yourself, you are the one who you've been waiting for.
-- Byron Katie -
The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things-ancient history, nineteenth century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later, or six months, or six years. But he has faith that it will happen.
-- Carl Ally -
I wish you all had one neck that I had my hands on it.
-- Carl Panzram -
I'm convinced that without bad design, the world would be a far less stimulating place; we would have nothing to marvel over and nothing to be nostalgic about.
-- Carrie Fulton Phillips -
Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.
-- Cecil B. DeMille -
The desire to reach for the sky runs very deep in the human psyche.
-- Cesar Pelli -
Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings
-- Cheris Kramarae