Best 350 quotes in «badass quotes» category

Am I going to have to carry you? If so, it would complete my badass knight-in-shining-armor act with you today.

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.

A pair of werewolves occupied another booth. They were eating raw shanks of lamb and arguing about who would win in a fight: Dumbledore from Harry Potter books or Magnus Bane. "Dumbledore would totally win," said the first one. "He has the badass Killing Curse." The second lycanthrope made a trenchant point. "But Dumbledore isn't real." "I don't think Magnus Bane is real either," scoffed the first. "Have you ever met him?" "This is so weird," said Clary, slinking down in her seat. "Are you listening to them?" "No. It's rude to eavesdrop," said Jace.

Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.

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

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

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, 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 like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make models of it, but it can only be experienced as a complete whole.

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 a dangerous mix of power and importance.

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

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

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

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.

Butterflies were small and light, and very magic sensitive. For some reason I made them feel safe and they gravitated to me like iron shavings to a magnet. They ruined my ferocious badass image, but you'd have to be a complete beast to swat butterflies.

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

At some point, you have to make a decision. Boundaries don't keep other people out. They fence you in. Life is messy. That's how we're made. So, you can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them

Because you know, I’m your best friend, but you’re just not that badass, man.

Believe it or not, when we were first married, our combined monthly student loan bills were actually higher than our mortgage.

Bubbles. On a scale of one to ten, a bubble bath has to rank zero as far as things I'd expect an older-than-dirt-badass vampire to indulge in. The only thing that would surprise me more would be if you pulled out a rubber ducky. -Kira to Mencheres

But America was built by optimists. Optimists like my friend Amanda, who recently started a small business. When she went to buy her website address-her first and last name-she found that someone already owned it, but wasn't using it. So my friend emailed the owner of the site to ask if she could buy it. The owner wrote back.

At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass

A what? (Fang) Badass demon with a superiority complex who picks his teeth with bones of infants. Let’s just keep it simple and say he’s a demon I want out of the human realm. ASAP. (Thorn)

Because if we the storytellers don't do this, then the bad people will win.

Becoming yourself is really hard and confusing, and it's a process. It's often not cool to be the person who puts themselves out there.

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

Design is where science and art break even.

COULD I PASS A WEEK IN THE INSANE WARD AT BLACKWELL'S ISLAND? I SAID I COULD AND I WOULD. AND I DID.

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.

Come on, Rachel!" Jenks shrilled. "You're a badass, not a bad witch!

Derek’s like, “So . . . what do you want to do first?” “I don’t know.” “Feel like ice cream?” “It’s, like, three degrees out.” “That’s why getting ice cream would be badass.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

Dimitri was on a first name basis with one of the most badass guardians around. Of course, Dimitri was pretty badass himself, so I shouldn’t have been surprised.

Don't you think I would be a worthy replacement for you, Madam Prime Minister? You have a long nose. So have I. But I don't poke my nose into other people's affairs.

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.

Everybody shut up. Let us work.

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Form ever follows function.

Healthy moms mean healthy families. When my Republican colleagues held a hearing about birth control and refused to include a single woman on the first panel as a witness, I asked, "Where are the women?

For so long, I was searching for something to be proud of. But at a certain point, I realized, 'Wait, I'm doing what I want to be doing. I'm not wanting to do it; I'm doing it.' And that's awesome.

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

Have a go-to pump up song. Mine is Shakira's 'Waka Waka' from the 2010 World Cup (don't judge). Play it only when you're ready to turn into your most badass self.

Having acquired an espresso machine as good as a solid e-61 and a very good grinder, your incremental dollars will be best spent on either buying truly badass coffee, or setting up a roasting setup yourself that with lots of effort will allow you to produce high end roasted coffee.

Here, then, is what I wanted to tell you of my architecture. I created it with courage and idealism, but also with an awareness of the fact that what is important is life, friends and attempting to make this unjust world a better place in which to live.