The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.

They didn't sell, people just weren't used to the idea of living in apartments.

From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber.

The form language used by the ancient Egyptians in their structures is minimal.

After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings.

Fifty years ago people were talking about Sydney's sprawl, but nobody does anything about it.

The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.

Japan's humid and warm summer climate, as well as frequent earthquakes resulted in lightweight timber buildings raised off the ground that are resistant to earth tremors.

I've always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that.

The government only makes restrictive rules, they don't show you what to do so you know, OK, here's where we need this many apartments, with open space, playgrounds, kindergartens.

Good design doesn't date.

Borne out of this, starting around the 17th Century was the Baroque era. It is my view that it is one of the architectural peak periods in western civilisation.

At the age of 80, I'm becoming a visual artist. This could be my rebirth.

After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration.

It doesn't worry me that people have criticised the building.

My whole family are hams. They're storytellers and everyone outdoes the next one.

Disco is the first technology music. And what I mean is that disco music is named after discs because when technology grew to where they didnt need a band in the clubs the DJ played it on a disc.

Love is proved the moment you let go of someone because they need you to.

If you can't stand the heat, you'd better get out of the kitchen.

The snake was on top of the bags, and he was starting to move around inside the container because he could see where the heat was coming from, and that's where he wanted to get.

I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of.

If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out of it: mood, back story and things that may not even be in the film. They kick off your imagination and broaden the character, I think.

I have a couple of things I do to clear my head when I need it. The first is exercise, the kind of exercise that makes me lie on the floor afterward gasping for breath and wonder if I'm actually going to be able to breathe enough to not die. The other one is playing music.

It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us it is the very sign of His presence.

You can not have comedy unless people are behaving badly. You can't have it.

Its toughest to forgive ourselves. So its probably best to start with other people. Its almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer forgiving others you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself.

The hippy movement was a failure.

A decade in advertising exposed me to plenty of schemers and backstabbers. But honestly, advertising is wonderful training for fiction. Writing novels is much easier if you've ever tried to write a billboard.

Unhappy people make me feel like I've done something wrong.

Everything I learned about the Great Depression was from a college textbook.

Pull in your belt, spend less, and reduce debt.

Beating the tea party gang is more important than who does the beating.

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.

You will never know true happiness until you have truly loved and you will never understand what pain really is until you have lost it.

It felt good to actually have a decent swim.

I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.

Nothing lasts forever -not even your troubles.

In 2011, agricultural exports hit a record high and producers saw their best incomes in nearly 40 years.

The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.