265 Quotes About Badass

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

This year women learned that if we aren't at the table, we're on the menu.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

At some point, you have to make a decision. Boundaries don't keep other people out. They fence you in. Life is messy. That's how we're made. So, you can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them

I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.

Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.

Confidence is the only key. I know a lot of people who aren't traditionally 'beautiful' - not symmetrical or perfect-bodied or perfect-skinned. But none of that matters because all that shines through is their confidence, humor, and comfort with themselves. I can't think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself.

You're a disease. And I'm the cure.

Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.