#architect

God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech. ↗

— Quintilian

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Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower. ↗

— Richard Rogers

#business #city #even #planning #slow

I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#architecture #arrived #filled #go #i

The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics. ↗

— Jay Chiat

#architecture #doing #focusing #great #great work

I look upon myself as a musical bricklayer with architectural aspirations. ↗

— Robert Mayer

#aspirations #bricklayer #i #look #musical

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach? ↗

— Philip Johnson

#beach #build #buildings #hate #i

The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

#building #deeper #foundation #laid #loftier

Every man is the architect of his own fortune. ↗

— Sallust

#every #every man #fortune #his #man

Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#am #any #architecture #cannot #church

But the building's identity resided in the ornament. ↗

— Louis Sullivan

#building #identity #ornament #resided