Richard Rogers Quotes

I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art.

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• I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Career
  • Myself
  • Poetry

• The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • American
  • Spirit
  • Intelligence

• A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • People
  • Water
  • Fat

• A lot of times when you play... you get this adrenalin that blocks pain.

  

  Venus Williams
  • You
  • Play
  • Pain

• It is amazing that the wisdom of the chattering class to the Republicans is always, always, always 'Surrender your principles and agree with the Democrats.' That's been true for my entire lifetime.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • True
  • Amazing
  • Wisdom

• Thoughts are mental energy; they're the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don't want.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Energy
  • Stop
  • Desire

• I haven't really tried to write a movie. It's tough to get into that mode.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Movie
  • Write
  • Tough

• If I am not above the law, nobody in this country can then claim to be above the law.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Country
  • Law

• When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers and makes it easier for society to commit them to combat.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • War
  • Society
  • Picture

• It's honestly true that money means nothing to me.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Money
  • True
  • Me

• No one reads my books until they're finished because I don't want feedback. It confuses me, and it changes things; if I get too much feedback, I get thrown off my path.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Books
  • Feedback
  • Confuses

• You have to be physical. If you are not, defensive backs will try to pick on you.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • You
  • Try
  • Will

• Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Great
  • History
  • Today

• Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I turned them down because they were all victim roles - poor girls sold to America to be a wife or whatever. I know I have the ability to go deeper, to take on more original roles than that.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Done
  • America
  • Wife

• Can you imagine me coming to this country to blow up a post office? I told them, 'My bombs are my books.'

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Up
  • Country
  • Blow

• A prophet is always much wider than his followers, much more liberal than those who label themselves with his name.

  

  Annie Besant

• But whatever its defects, the classification of Linnæus was the first attempt at grouping animals together according to certain common structural characters.

  

  Louis Agassiz
  • Together

• You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic, clumsy and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Wish
  • Chess

• It's also possible to have two third person singular points of view, as represented by two characters through whose eyes the story is told in alternating chapters, say.

  

  Arthur Herzog
  • Eyes

• To have strongly integrated managers who have a deep understanding of technology is a rare and difficult combination to build. You have to invest a lot in selecting and training these people.

  

  Azim Premji
  • People
  • Technology
  • Understanding

• You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Society
  • Credit
  • Credit Card

• You don't climb mountains without a team, you don't climb mountains without being fit, you don't climb mountains without being prepared and you don't climb mountains without balancing the risks and rewards. And you never climb a mountain on accident - it has to be intentional.

  

  Mark Udall
  • Team
  • Mountain

• I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art.

  

  Richard Rogers
  • Technology
  • Architecture
  • Geography