Richard Rogers Quotes

Cities are about juxtaposition. In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like. In Bordeaux, we built law courts right next door to what is effectively a listed historic building, and that makes it exciting.

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• As a queen, I speak about unity and respect. I think that is the most important thing.

  

  Gabriela Isler
  • Important
  • Respect
  • Unity

• If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Future
  • Couple
  • Loss

• If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Writer

• I'm very active, wild woman.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Woman
  • Active
  • WIld

• A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Name
  • Hip Hop
  • Street

• If I'd been bright, I'd have realized that I was horribly uncomfortable, amazingly frustrated, and like any sensible person, I'd have quit. But it never occurred to me that I wouldn't be successful eventually.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Successful
  • Uncomfortable
  • Frustrated

• It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all. It's the eyes for the blind and legs for the lame. It is the love for hate and pride for shame. That's the power of the gospel.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Heart
  • Power
  • Man

• The green things of this world are just wondrous, aren’t they?” his mother went on. “We work so hard to get rid of them when sometimes they’re the very thing that saves us.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • World
  • Work
  • Mother

• The question of who will win the elections has already been decided. The test now is whether we will be strong enough to do what we want and for this we need as many seats as possible.

  

  Ehud Olmert
  • Strong
  • Question
  • Election

• I believe you might want to say something. I've never seen you at a loss for words.

  

  Charlie Daniels
  • Believe
  • Words

• Synergies are something that the CEO basically has to force to happen, because organizations are, generally, like bodies in motion that tend to stay in motion. It's very hard to get big organizations to change. And it takes really a very powerful mandate to force things to happen.

  

  John C. Malone
  • Power
  • Change
  • Powerful

• Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Book
  • Revolution
  • Wrote

• Learning about all those different things psychologically - about grief and my own addictions and problems and stuff like that, and really getting an education on it, I think it was part of the process of it, learning about it and trying to lick it.

  

  Richie Sambora Bon Jovi
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• Let then no doubt, Celinda, touch, Much less your fairest mind invade: Were not our souls immortal made Our equal loves can make them such.

  

  Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury
  • Souls
  • Loves
  • No Doubt

• Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Sometimes
  • Odd

• Thank God for sleep! And when you cannot sleep, still thank Him that you live to lie awake.

  

  William Arthur Dunkerley
  • Sleep
  • Lying
  • Awake

• Most exciting for me was to make the Pro Bowl in 14 of 15 years.

  

  Merlin Olsen
  • Exciting
  • Bowls

• Make yourself do unpleasant things so as to gain the upper hand of your soul.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Soul
  • Hand
  • Yourself

• Cities are about juxtaposition. In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like. In Bordeaux, we built law courts right next door to what is effectively a listed historic building, and that makes it exciting.

  

  Richard Rogers
  • Exciting
  • Classical
  • Florence