Badass 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.

I came here to chew bubble gum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubble gum.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

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

When you've worked hard, and done well, and walked through that doorway of opportunity...you do not slam it shut behind you...you reach back, and you give other folks the same chances that helped you succeed.

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.

I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Simple as that.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

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

When you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at something, they'll tell you.

Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power - not because they don't see it, but because they see it and they don't want it to exist.

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

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

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

I never underestimated myself. And I never saw anything wrong with ambition.

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.

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

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

My life is simple, my food is plain, and my quarters are uncluttered. In all things, I have sought clarity. I face the troubles and problems of life and death willingly. Virtue, integrity and courage are my priorities. I can be approached, but never pushed; befriended but never coerced; killed but never shamed.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

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.

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.

Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.

I feel myself becoming the fearless person I have dreamt of being. Have I arrived? No. But I'm constantly evolving and challenging myself to be unafraid to make mistakes.

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

Nobody kills me and lives to tell about it.

A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense.

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

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.

You see, in this world, there's two kinds of people, my friend - those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig.

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

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

I wonder whether those of our political masters who have been put in charge of the defence of the country can distinguish a mortar from a motor; a gun from a howitzer; a guerrilla from a gorilla, although a great many resemble the latter.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

Dreams are lovely. But they are just dreams. Fleeting, ephemeral, pretty. But dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It's hard work that makes things happen. It's hard work that creates change.

Honor to those who in the life they lead define and guard a Thermopylae. Never betraying what is right, consistent and just in all they do but showing pity also, and compassion; generous when they are rich, and when they are poor, still generous in small ways, still helping as much as they can; always speaking the truth, yet without hating those who lie. And even more honor is due to them when they foresee (as many do foresee) that in the end Ephialtis will make his appearance, that the Medes will break through after all.

You can't move mountains by whispering at them.

I know for some girls, tight clothes make them feel like they can take on the world-and that's fine too. But I don't think that sexy only means showing skin: It's all about wearing whatever makes you feel the most badass.

I've known for a long time that they're a bunch of idiots.

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.

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

Do not wish for quick results, nor look for small advantages. If you seek quick results, you will not reach the ultimate goal. If you are led astray by small advantages, you will never accomplish great things.

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.