I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

Go ahead and believe that no one shines brighter than you. Become amazing, and be happy.

Slapped her then I asked her what's my name. She said N-I-C, the president of the N-Y-C.

At the end of the day it doesn't matter what anybody else thinks as long as you're happy.

We live in a time of renaissance ... cities are coming back to life, after a long neglect.

That's the world of policing. I've met some bad-ass female cops, who are very cool people.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.

The man who thinks he can and the man who thinks he can't are both right. Which one are you?

Being a true bad ass has no weight or gender requirement - just 100% commitment to greatness.

Pop ya kickstand little mama I'm the Nickster. I'll pop you then I'll pop your little sister.

It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.

A lot of guys don't want to admit that they have a propensity for generosity and for violence.

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.

There's gonna be haters, but don't let them affect you, don't let them take away a part of you.

If he gimme the word then I'm flippin the bird & then I'm spinnin around & I'm grippin the burn

There are no shortcuts. The fact that a shortcut is important to you means that you are a pussy.

The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism.

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

I wouldn't say I'm a feminist, but I don't like girls pretending to be stupid because it's easier.

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.

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

One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.

I think I was born to be a figure skater, I think it was fate, and I thank God for letting it happen.

I told Khaled you the best but I'm the bestest. Better run for cover if your name is on my checklist.

Nothing in this world is more simple and more cheap than making cities that provide better for people.

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

By four o'clock, I've discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world instead.

Oh that's what he left? Let his mama pick it up. Might back up on it, VROOM VROOM wit the pick-up truck.

It's gonna be okay, no matter how hard your rock bottom is, you can rise above it and you can come back.

Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.

Once you figure out what respect tastes like, it tastes better than attention. But you have to get there.

I'm never scared, they never real, I never run. When all is said and done, more is always said than done.

I'm going to help the committee regardless of any position I have. I will volunteer to be a summer intern.

Countless women are alive today because of ideas stimulated by a design flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope.

I got a lot of friends that come up off the strip for me. The same ones that'll come up off the hip for me.

I love the John Glenn model... I may call NASA in 25 years or so, and see if they'd like to send me to Mars.

I believe there's 31 flavors to be tasted. . . I'm just living my life. I don't want to be your kind of good.

And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.

No law can give Congress a backbone if it refuses to stand off as the coequal branch the Constitution made it.

The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

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

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

When we know ourselves to be connected to all others, acting compassionately is simply the natural thing to do.

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

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

Your memo is trumping a Congressional statute. You don't have the discretion on whether to follow the law or not.

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