Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room a room in a house a house in an environment an environment in a city plan.

The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man's life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence.

To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really an architect.

Function influence but does not dictate form

I wanted to clear up the slum of legs… I wanted to make the chair all one thing again.

Confusion comes from trying to amalgamate several conflicting ideas.

What you newspaper and magazine writers, who work in rabbit time, don't understand is that the practice of architecture has to be measured in elephant time.

I’m alive, ” he groaned. “But I’m not doing a very good job of it.

And what do I know about humans? Only this: My name is Doloria Maria de la Cruz, and I'm not just the end of childhood. I'm the end of humanity. And if you come from the skies- I'm coming for you.

I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.

I'm not ready to do any compromises for my work.

I like that 3D is based on the fact that you look with two eyes, so two cameras imitate that.

I was never very happy at school.

Wherever injustice occurs, we all need to be concerned.

I guess the only thing to do now is meet his parents. I'm sure they're decent people. I mean they gotta be if they named their son Gaylord Focker.

Apart from Love, which is not a human emotion, of all the rest my last words would best read: It's all for the experience.