Michael Ian Black Quotes

You have to lead, in the case of a game show, a contestant through the architecture of the show. So there's a lot of rules there, literal and implied, that you have to navigate.

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• When I'm telling stories of my video game days, when I was a really hardcore MMO player, I played 'EverQuest' for two years and played 'World of Warcraft' and several other games for the last ten years or so... 95% of the stories I'll tell you are 'EverQuest.'

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • World
  • Game
  • Player

• Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.

  

  Rafael Vinoly
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • True

• You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did you know that Shanghai is building nine satellite towns, each designed to mimic the architecture and culture of a different country?

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Time
  • Different
  • Country

• The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Art
  • Beauty
  • Architecture

• I am a Yankees fan. I should say - have been to more Yankees games than Mets games.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Games
  • Fan
  • Yankees

• If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Music
  • Architecture
  • Frozen

• I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Architecture

• I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • People
  • Art
  • History

• You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
  • World
  • American
  • Car

• At first Laing found something alienating about the concrete landscape of the project - an architecture designed for war, on the unconscious level if no other.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • War
  • Architecture

• I get a lot of inspiration from the audience feedback to our live shows.

  

  Donnie Iris
  • Inspiration
  • Shows

• Architecture has a strong link with the movies in terms of time progression, sequencing, framing, all of that.

  

  Christian de Portzamparc
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Architecture

• The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices.

  

  Peter Eisenman
  • Choices
  • Architecture

• Architecture is definitely a political act.

  

  Peter Eisenman
  • Political
  • Architecture

• I studied fine arts and architecture, but I decided to move into movie design because I grew up in a small town in the Marche region and spent a lot of time after school in the movie theater.

  

  Dante Ferretti
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• Aside from keeping the rain out and producing some usable space, architecture is nothing but a special-effects machine that delights and disturbs the senses.

  

  Elizabeth Diller
  • Space
  • Architecture
  • Rain

• I am involved in the architecture of space.

  

  James Turrell
  • Space
  • Architecture

• Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you'll be: How good are you at going around obstacles?

  

  Jeremy Renner
  • Good
  • Architecture
  • Obstacles

• Most bad," the host concluded. "If you ask me, something sinister lurks in men who avoid wine, games, the company of lovely women, and dinnertime conversation. Such people are either gravely ill or secretly detest everyone around them.

  

  Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Games
  • Conversation
  • Lurks

• Nowadays, especially when you think of electronic music, it's like, the producer is mostly the one who makes the music or the beats and everything. But I am more, since I'm that old, when I started to make music the producer was just sitting in the back shouting and drinking beer.

  

  Fever Ray
  • Thinking
  • Drinking
  • Beats

• Today, with our head held high we accept the people's verdict. To bring Greece to where it is today we had to take difficult decisions (with) a heavy political cost.

  

  Kyriakos Mitsotakis
  • Decisions
  • Greece
  • Verdict

• Just remember...you are the one with everything to lose.

  

  Windham Rotunda
  • Remember
  • Everything
  • Lose

• People can defame anyone they like, people can write anything they like. But non-accountability is a part of modern Indian culture.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • People
  • Culture
  • Modern

• You have to lead, in the case of a game show, a contestant through the architecture of the show. So there's a lot of rules there, literal and implied, that you have to navigate.

  

  Michael Ian Black
  • Games
  • Architecture
  • Shows