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A culture fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.

A camel is a horse designed by committee.

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.

Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely shadows cast by outward things On stone or canvas, having in themselves No separate existence. Architecture, Existing in itself, and not in seeming A something it is not, surpasses them As substance shadow.

A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense.

A design isn't finished until someone is using it.

You're murderers," she told the stunned crowd. "You killed him. He was a miracle, and you killed him. Now you've just got me. And I'm a curse.

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

A lot of guys don't want to admit that they have a propensity for generosity and for violence.

Always remember this...there is only ONE recipe for strength. A secret recipe that was handed down from Sandow to John Grimek to Paul Anderson to Vasily Alexeev to Bill Kazmaier to me. Now I'm giving you that magical recipe...hard work plus proper nutrition plus time equals strong.

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.

An object should be judged by whether it has a form consistent with its use.

Any work of architecture that does not express serenity is a mistake.

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

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 the will of an epoch translated into space.

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

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

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

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

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

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

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

'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.

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

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

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

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.

And if you a G you a G-G-G. My name is Onika, you can call me Nicki.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Be proud of who you are.

Carpe every damn diem.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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