Bad Ass Quotes

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

If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

In the absence of orders, go find something and kill it.

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.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

You are remembered for the rules you break.

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

I would like to be remembered as someone who was not afraid to do what she wanted to do, and as someone who took risks along the way in order to achieve her goals.

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.

Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

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

You gonna do somethin'? or are you just gonna stand there and bleed?

Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.

One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.

The Sun does not realise how wonderful it is until after a room is made.

Nothing in this world is more simple and more cheap than making cities that provide better for people.

If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting.

The room is there for the human being - not the human being for the room.

The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.

I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

I never went into physics or the astronaut corps to become a role model. But after my first flight, it became clear to me that I was one. And I began to understand the importance of that to people. Young girls need to see role models in whatever careers they may choose, just so they can picture themselves doing those jobs someday. You can't be what you can't see.

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

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use the word order.

I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.

Life is to be enjoyed, not endured

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

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

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

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

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

To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don't let it.

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it.

Everyone has the ability to accomplish unique feats, everyone. You choose this. Become someone great in one other life. Forget about failing to many. Who cares? Doesn't matter when you start or finish, just start, no deviations, no excuses.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.

There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.

A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense.

There are no shortcuts. The fact that a shortcut is important to you means that you are a pussy.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

You may abandon your own body but you must preserve your honour.

The first gesture of an architect is to draw a perimeter; in other words, to separate the microclimate from the macro space outside. This in itself is a sacred act. Architecture in itself conveys this idea of limiting space. It's a limit between the finite and the infinite. From this point of view, all architecture is sacred.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

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

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