Quotes on Bad Ass

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

Don't worry, be crappy. Revolutionary means you ship and then test... Lots of things made the first Mac in 1984 a piece of crap - but it was a revolutionary piece of crap.

Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but nonetheless doing it like you love it.

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use the word order.

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

The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics.

No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training... what a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.

Journalism is just a gun. It’s only got one bullet in it, but if you aim right, that’s all you need. Aim it right, and you can blow a kneecap off the world.

Let us not fool ourselves into thinking we went to the Moon because we are pioneers, or discoverers, or adventurers. We went to the Moon because it was the militaristically expedient thing to do.

Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free.

On Friday the 13th, April 2029, an asteroid large enough to fill the Rose Bowl as though it were an egg cup will fly so close to Earth that it will dip below the altitude of our communication satellites. We did not name this asteroid Bambi. Instead, we named it Apophis, after the Egyptian god of darkness and death.

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

Science is basically an inoculation against charlatans.

Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.

The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it.

I would like to be remembered as someone who was not afraid to do what she wanted to do, and as someone who took risks along the way in order to achieve her goals.

Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we're still at the mercy of nature.