Best 311 quotes in «bad ass quotes» category

A profound design process eventually makes the patron, the architect, and every occasional visitor in the building a slightly better human being.

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.

Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.

Architecture never derived its force from stability of culture, but rather from the expression of those moments when that sense of stability slipped.

Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space ... On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's also about pleasure.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.

Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

Ask yourself this question, will this matter a year from now?

As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.

'As a fraction of your tax dollar today, what is the total cost of all spaceborne telescopes, planetary probes, the rovers on Mars, the International Space Station, the space shuttle, telescopes yet to orbit, and missions yet to fly?' Answer: one-half of one percent of each tax dollar. Half a penny. I'd prefer it were more: perhaps two cents on the dollar. Even during the storied Apollo era, peak NASA spending amounted to little more than four cents on the tax dollar.

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

Battle... brings out all that is best.

Bad as I wanna be. She aint bad, she a sad little wannabe.

At the end of the day it doesn't matter what anybody else thinks as long as you're happy.

Being a true bad ass has no weight or gender requirement - just 100% commitment to greatness.

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes'; They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'

Be authentic to your dreams. Be authentic to your own idea about yourself. Grind away at your own minds and bodies until you become your own invention. Be Mad Scientists.

Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.

Be proud of who you are.

Can you imagine a 6 year old banging all day on a drum kit. I do have photos of me in my sort of princess girly bedroom with a bad-ass sparkle set.

But we have to understand why we do what we do, not just do what we do. Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.

Charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before. It's also much easier - and much more fun.

By four o'clock, I've discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world instead.

Congress is supposed to provide oversight, the voters are supposed to provide oversight. And you [the media] were supposed to provide oversight. That's why you have special liberties and that's why you have special protections.

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

Countless women are alive today because of ideas stimulated by a design flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope.

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It's a gift to the world and every being in it. Don't cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you've got.

Carpe every damn diem.

Dammit, don't you dare ask God to help me!

Develop a built-in bullshit detector.

Design is where science and art break even.

Designers think everything done by someone else is awful, and that they could do it better themselves, which explains why I designed my own living room carpet, I suppose.

Dude that was bad ass.

Don't do coke I don't blow niggas, I don't tell niggas I show niggas

Done sayin I'm done playin

Everyday is a new opportunity to change your life and be who you want to be.

Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we're still at the mercy of nature.

Form ever follows function.

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Duty is the essence of manhood.

Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.