Yiangou Architects Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were not pretending to love it. — Amy Sedaris

Do what you want to do, and don't worry if it's a little odd or doesn't fit the market. — Lydia Davis

There is nothing antithetical in American history, culture, or traditions to teamwork. Teams were important in America's history - wagon trains conquered the West, men working together on the assembly line in American industry conquered the world, a successful national strategy and a lot of teamwork put an American on the moon first (and thus fare, last). But American mythology extols only the individual ... In America, halls of fame exist for almost every conceivable activity, but nowhere do Americans raise monuments in praise of teamwork. — Lester Thurow

With the elevator stopped between floors, my view is about a cockroach above the green linoleum, and from here at cockroach level the green corridor stretches toward the vanishing point, past half-open doors where titans and their gigantic wives drink barrels of champagne and bellow to each other wearing diamonds bigger than I feel. — Chuck Palahniuk

You're not a doctor. Remember that.
No, but I play one on the internet. — Tracy H. Tucker

My family is a praying family, a Christian family. — Magic Johnson

The arrow shot by the archer may or may not kill a single person. But stratagems devised by wise men can kill even babes in the womb. — Kautilya

I hear they burn for murder. Well, they say it just takes a second to die. — Lee Harvey Oswald

The painter's face curdled with scorn "You think I'm proud of this daub?" he said. "You think this is my idea of what life looks like?"
"What's your idea of what life looks like?" said the orderly.
The painter gestured at a foul dropcloth. "There's a good picture of it," he said. "Frame that, and you'll have a picture a damn sight more honest than this one. — Kurt Vonnegut

I want to be the joint that she smokes so that we can finally talk about
everything without having to use words, because I will be a drug in her brain. — A.S. King

I am thinking of one woman and the rest is blotto. I say I am thinking of her, but the truth is I am dying a stellar death. I am lying there like a sick star waiting for the light to go out. Years ago I lay on this same bed and I waited and waited to be born. Nothing happened. Except that my mother, in her Lutheran rage, threw a bucket of water over me. My mother, poor imbecile that she was, thought I was lazy. She didn't know that I had gotten caught in the stellar drift, that I was being pulverized to a black extinction out there in the farthest rim of the universe. — Henry Miller

Maggie, I don't read." The combination of these four words create the saddest sentence I'd ever heard. — Brittainy C. Cherry

Well, first of all, I'm worth every penny. — Howard Stern

The paranoid fear of government is an extremist position, and every one of us ought to say that — Patricia Schroeder

Sonny was a spiky ray of light to those lucky enough to be close to him, but life had taught him to play his cards close to his chest. — Garrett Leigh