Alvaro Siza Vieira Quotes

The relation of a building to its function needs to be much less schematic and formal if you want to produce good architecture.

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• God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.

  

  Ted Williams
  • God
  • You
  • Own

• I believe, certainly in the NHL, a player who can help a team win because he can contribute on the ice is going to be coveted whatever his beliefs may be or whoever he may be. That goes to national origin, religious beliefs, or sexuality.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Believe
  • May
  • Help

• I keep dumbbells in my trailer, and I work out between takes.

  

  Zach Roerig
  • Work
  • Workout
  • Between

• I'm interested in all things that Donald Trump does. I've known him since 1980. He's a good man.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Good
  • Man
  • Trump

• You can't show up at the bedside and then turn on your skills. You have to keep your game sharp all the time.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Up
  • Time
  • Game

• The luxury of radio is that you don't spend hours in make-up, and you can wear whatever you want. It's bizarre. You'll be saying lines, with various people around making sound effect noises.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Up
  • Saying

• I'm inspired every time I see a role I'd like to play, an actor turn in a well crafted performance, a story I'd like to tell, direct or produce.

  

  T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
  • Time
  • Story
  • Inspired

• Competition is a powerful and essential part of this nation's economy and vital to cutting government costs.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Government
  • Powerful
  • Competition

• People, me included, have a truly emotional thing about this iPad.

  

  Barry Diller
  • People
  • Me
  • Emotional

• Helmet was joined to helmet, and spear to spear, and jewels, baggage, and elephants without number went with them, and you would have said it was a host that none could understand.

  

  Ferdowsi
  • You
  • Understand
  • Said

• Something that I think I figured out slowly was if you're playing a show and there's a chatter or there is, you know, a lot of noise - people talking or something - I was never the one whose instinct was to try to be louder than them.

  

  Feist
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• I learned the first night that IHOP's not the place to order fish.

  

  Larry David
  • Night
  • Place
  • Fish

• When I was in charge of the Christian Coalition I was available to mobilize grass roots support for somebody.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Support
  • Christian
  • Roots

• No agency is better than its account executives.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Better
  • Account
  • Agency

• Yes, you want to do studio movies, but I also want to grow as an actor, and an actress like me is not going to get roles where you grow and evolve in a studio film. It's just not gonna happen.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Want
  • Movies
  • Actor

• Every year I hear people complain that the quality of screenplays and movies is declining. In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are not very original, well-written, or interesting. It has always been that way, and I think it always will be.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Quality

• I spend the entire 90 minutes looking for space on the pitch. I'm always between the opposition's two holding midfielders and thinking, 'The defence is here, so I get the ball and I go there to where the space is.'

  

  Xavi
  • Thinking
  • Space
  • Looking

• Be black, shine, aim high.

  

  Leontyne Price
  • High
  • Black
  • Shine

• I'm very much bigger than I was, so what? It's not really fatness, it's development.

  

  Anita Ekberg
  • Development
  • Bigger
  • Fatness

• Where fashion in clothes, bodily adornment, and music are concerned, it is the underclass that increasingly sets the pace. Never before has there been so much downward cultural aspiration.

  

  Anthony Daniels
  • Music
  • Fashion
  • Clothes

• A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Ideas
  • Sound
  • Differences

• When I'm not acting, I'm writing, building an inventory of scripts. Even if they sit on the shelf, I just keep stacking them up.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Acting

• The relation of a building to its function needs to be much less schematic and formal if you want to produce good architecture.

  

  Alvaro Siza Vieira
  • Building
  • Relation
  • Function