Richard Rogers quote: "Cities depend on a healthy mix of uses and people for their vitality. As a pre-eminent world city, London is a magnet to people from across the globe."

Society has to get a grip and put a tax on carbon. Of course, there is much that flows from that, an...
RICHARD ROGERS

The one advantage of being dyslexic is that you are never tempted to look back and idealise your chi...
RICHARD ROGERS

Architecture is always political.
RICHARD ROGERS

Watching TV on your own is not very inspiring. But meeting people is where you get new ideas and get...
RICHARD ROGERS

Cities are about juxtaposition. In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It&...
RICHARD ROGERS

I think greed is a critical problem - the gap between the poor and the rich. The gap between the top...
RICHARD ROGERS

Dyslexia, though, made me realise that people who say 'but you can't do that' aren't...
RICHARD ROGERS

I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get ...
RICHARD ROGERS

Architecture is a living thing. If I want to leave something to the future, it has to be able to cha...
RICHARD ROGERS

Cities are about juxtaposition.
RICHARD ROGERS

Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.
RICHARD ROGERS

Most buildings, whether they're Gothic cathedrals or Romanesque ones, were high tech for their t...
RICHARD ROGERS

Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the futur...
RICHARD ROGERS

Everyone has the right to walk from one end of the city to the other in secure and beautiful spaces....
RICHARD ROGERS

The Athenians had an oath for someone who was about to become a citizen. They had to swear that '...
RICHARD ROGERS

You have to modernise; you have to change - you can't just be traditional for the fun of being t...
RICHARD ROGERS

My architecture tends to be legible, light and flexible. You can read it. You look at a building, an...
RICHARD ROGERS

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.
RICHARD ROGERS

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.
RICHARD ROGERS

There is no one-size-fits-all solution to the challenges facing our cities or to the housing crisis,...
RICHARD ROGERS

The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody...
RICHARD ROGERS

I am much more passionate about cities than I am about nations. The competition between cities is mo...
RICHARD ROGERS

My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it,...
RICHARD ROGERS

Architects are not clients. We can't build without something to built.
RICHARD ROGERS

Architects design buildings; that's what we do, so we have to go with the flow; and, even though...
RICHARD ROGERS

I have a very big family, and that is my number one thing, and we go away for a month to see my cous...
RICHARD ROGERS

Suburban sprawl leads to social atomisation and fragmentation and is environmentally disastrous, as ...
RICHARD ROGERS

One of the things you see in New York is that offices keep their lights on at night. They're pro...
RICHARD ROGERS

I think we did a pretty good role, linking, being a sounding board really and a driving force, espec...
RICHARD ROGERS

If I remember rightly Holland for instance has something like 45, and it's a much smaller countr...
RICHARD ROGERS

Education in British schools isn't good enough. It's not remotely imaginative enough. It let...
RICHARD ROGERS

I remember my mother taking me to see the Picasso show in the 1940s, and I was impressed by the life...
RICHARD ROGERS

I cycle, which is a healthy thing for an 80-year-old to do. I rarely go further than five miles, but...
RICHARD ROGERS

This is a pivotal time for urban regeneration. We must take a long term view.
RICHARD ROGERS

Her gift is one the whole city can enjoy, ... The garden is a thrill for me. I even saw some joggers...
RICHARD ROGERS

[At the University of Massachusetts Amherst, David Powicki, Associate Director of Network Services, ...
RICHARD ROGERS

Oklahoma.
RICHARD ROGERS

Her generous gift and enduring spirit allows us to further our commitment to our students, faculty a...
RICHARD ROGERS

Until now, we've been a group of buildings surrounded by parking lots, ... Now the garden brings all...
RICHARD ROGERS

A greater focus on design in all new homes would make the best use of land, create homes and public ...
RICHARD ROGERS

The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast.
RICHARD ROGERS

I like the idea of trying to influence society by taking a brief, then maybe subtly changing it or l...
RICHARD ROGERS

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in lo...
ROGERS

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
WILL ROGERS

Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.
WILL ROGERS

Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.
WILL ROGERS

Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.
WILL ROGERS

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.
WILL ROGERS

People in Hollywood are going make pictures where ever it's the least expensive to make them.
WAYNE ROGERS

There is a big cry in California to stop everyone from running to Canada.
WAYNE ROGERS

It's not up to the employer to decide or to figure out what religious problems you may have as a...
WAYNE ROGERS

When you start a sentence with the word 'illegal', you've got nowhere to go. An illegal ...
WAYNE ROGERS

Free speech is not a bogus issue. It is an issue.
WAYNE ROGERS

Our children and grandchildren are not going to have the same standard of living unless we educate t...
WAYNE ROGERS

Entrepreneurs bring to business... creativity.
WAYNE ROGERS

I have no great desire to play a great role. You can't make quality on TV anyway. It's alway...
WAYNE ROGERS

Everything that is large and institutional should be distrusted, even though it may be the best arou...
WAYNE ROGERS

The best government is the least government. In some areas, I'm libertarian. I don't subscri...
WAYNE ROGERS

You can't change the market; the market just is.
WAYNE ROGERS

I have always been interested in theater, as an actor and as someone who looks upon theater - at the...
WAYNE ROGERS

I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
WAYNE ROGERS

I may have a slightly paranoid nature, a fear of losing control of my life.
WAYNE ROGERS

I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that...
WAYNE ROGERS

The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.
WAYNE ROGERS

You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition ...
WAYNE ROGERS

Look first at management. That's the key to a company.
WAYNE ROGERS

I'm not hiding anything. What you see is what you get.
WAYNE ROGERS

I love to be in the position of not knowing what I'm gonna do, but having rehearsed all of those...
WAYNE ROGERS

People will always want a free lunch.
WAYNE ROGERS

The world is getting smaller and smaller every day. We cannot find ourselves dependent on somebody w...
WAYNE ROGERS

When it comes to jobs, jobs are just like products in the sense that the free market operates and se...
WAYNE ROGERS

If you are an entrepreneur, you have to think outside of the box.
WAYNE ROGERS

What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?
ROY ROGERS

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.
WILL ROGERS

I always tried to hit the ball back through the box because that is the largest unprotected area.
ROGERS HORNSBY

It don't make no difference where I go or what happens, so long as I can play the full nine.
ROGERS HORNSBY

To be a good hitter you've got to do one thing - get a good ball to hit.
ROGERS HORNSBY

Now the advantage is all with the hitters.
ROGERS HORNSBY

I've never been a yes man.
ROGERS HORNSBY

I don't like to sound egotistical, but every time I stepped up to the plate with a bat in my han...
ROGERS HORNSBY

I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.
ROGERS HORNSBY

I believe in dressing for the occasion. There's a time for sweater, sneakers and Levis and a tim...
GINGER ROGERS

Sure, jets are fast and economical, but, oh my, what fun we've lost and what leisure we've s...
GINGER ROGERS

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.
WILL ROGERS

I'm the chairman of the intelligence committee. We don't only get formal briefings, but we c...
MIKE ROGERS

I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody a chance to get...
WILL ROGERS

I have no Politics. I am for the Party that is out of Power, no matter which one it is. But I will g...
WILL ROGERS

When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: I joked abo...
WILL ROGERS

Here it is, a New Year. We got to make some resolutions, as well as interest and tax payments in thi...
WILL ROGERS

Everybody is ignorant only on different subjects.
WILL ROGERS

Lord, the money we do spend on Government and its not one bit better than the government we got for ...
WILL ROGERS

There is no credit to being a comedian, when you have the whole Government working for you. All you ...
WILL ROGERS

We can make this thing into a Party, instead of a Memory.
WILL ROGERS

Youve got to be an optimist to be a Democrat, and youve got to be a humorist to stay one.
WILL ROGERS

I am not a member of any organized partyI am a Democrat.
WILL ROGERS

And kid Congress and the Senate, dont scold em. They are just children thats never grown up. They do...
WILL ROGERS

I originated a remark many years ago that I think has been copied more than any little thing that Iv...
WILL ROGERS

I never met a man I didn't like.
WILL ROGERS

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds
WILL ROGERS

Historically, there has been a bull market in commodities every 20 or 30 years.
JIM ROGERS

While I was making my solo films, RKO was busily trying to get me and Fred Astaire back together. Th...
GINGER ROGERS

Washington is like playing the Super Bowl, only there are no timeouts, no potty breaks, and the aren...
DESIREE ROGERS

I'm a business person at heart.
DESIREE ROGERS

We've become accustomed to let officials handle everything.
AL ROGERS

Our young black men are falling victim to some anti-social behavior. Our kids are going to find acce...
AL ROGERS

It was a blow to me. My job is to make sure the building is safe.
AL ROGERS

In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beaut...
AL ROGERS

I'm happy to be here. I enjoy my job so far and I'm glad to work in the town I grew up in.
ALAN ROGERS

He is, in our view, reformed.
ALAN ROGERS

They just need to do something to make it look nicer.
ALAN ROGERS

It's a hard transition. You have to really want to be a part of a new culture.
ALAN ROGERS

They may think that all military officers are George Patton, but what about Colin Powell? We're real...
ALAN ROGERS

The farm women are extremely well organized and are bound to be heard from.
EDITH ROGERS

I cannot doubt that women will line up, like the men elected, with the groups whose political thinki...
EDITH ROGERS

But do not understand me as saying, or for one moment suggesting, that women legislators should conf...
EDITH ROGERS

Lobbyists have more offices in Washington than the President. You see, the President only tells Cong...
WILL ROGERS

The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse ...
WILL ROGERS

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
WILL ROGERS

You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.
WILL ROGERS

It's great to be great, but it's greater to be human.
WILL ROGERS

I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody chance to get s...
WILL ROGERS

To know her was to love her.
SAMUEL ROGERS

The Good are better made by Ill, As odours crushed are sweeter still.
SAMUEL ROGERS

Haste is slow. [Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]
SAMUEL ROGERS

Timid dogs more eagerly bark than bite.
SAMUEL ROGERS

Nothing is so secure in its position as not to be in danger from the attack even of the weak.
SAMUEL ROGERS

Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it.
WILL ROGERS

Do anything in this world but monkey with somebody eles's religion. What reasoning of conceit makes ...
WILL ROGERS

Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.
WILL ROGERS

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
WILL ROGERS

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.
WILL ROGERS

Come to Jesus. Come to Jesus.
ADRIAN ROGERS

The city has come together for strength and to rally -- that is a good thing,
ADRIAN ROGERS

Writing is one of the ambitions I have,
ADRIAN ROGERS

The idea is to minister to pastors and share with them what God has taught me over 50 years of minis...
ADRIAN ROGERS

I have known him for years,
ADRIAN ROGERS

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You bein...
WILL ROGERS

Believe in something for another world, but don't be too set on what it is, and then you won't start...
WILL ROGERS

The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every ...
WILL ROGERS

I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
WILL ROGERS

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.
WILL ROGERS

No party is as bad as its leaders.
WILL ROGERS

Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.
WILL ROGERS

The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each part...
WILL ROGERS

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.
WILL ROGERS

This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried...
WILL ROGERS

The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long ...
WILL ROGERS

If you ever injected truth into politics, you would have no politics.
WILL ROGERS

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and their politicians as jokes.
WILL ROGERS

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was s...
WILL ROGERS

With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.
CARL ROGERS

The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that mu...
CARL ROGERS

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
CARL ROGERS

When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
CARL ROGERS

In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this p...
CARL ROGERS

In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, wi...
CARL ROGERS

All I know is what I read in the papers.
WILL ROGERS

The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the ...
WILL ROGERS

America is a great country, but you can't live in it for nothing.
WILL ROGERS

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.
JAMES ROGERS

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best o...
WILL ROGERS

Live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
WILL ROGERS

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an i...
WILL ROGERS

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
WILL ROGERS

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House an...
WILL ROGERS

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you
WILL ROGERS

There is no argument in the world that carries the hatred that a relioious belief does. The more lea...
WILL ROGERS

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people
WILL ROGERS

The relationship which I have found helpful is characterized by a sort of transparency on my part, i...
CARL ROGERS

If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of ...
CARL ROGERS

The only person who cannot be helped is that person who blames others.
CARL ROGERS

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn - and change
CARL ROGERS

In my early professionals years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this ...
CARL ROGERS

I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion ...
CARL ROGERS

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.
CARL ROGERS

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
WILL ROGERS

There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.
WILL ROGERS

There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
WILL ROGERS

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
CARL ROGERS

Part of the problem with the word 'disabilities' is that it immediately suggests an inability to see...
FRED ROGERS

If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
WILL ROGERS

There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
WILL ROGERS

I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.
WILL ROGERS

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
WILL ROGERS

When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than...
FRED ROGERS

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.
WILL ROGERS

Never miss a good chance to shut up.
WILL ROGERS

Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
WILL ROGERS

Not one country in existence today has had the same borders and government for as long as two hundre...
JIM ROGERS

Never act upon wishful thinking. Act without checking the facts, and chances are that you will be sw...
JIM ROGERS

Those who can not adjust to change will be swept aside by it. Those who recognize change and react a...
JIM ROGERS

I will never joke about old soldiers who try to get to reunions to talk over the war again. To talk ...
WILL ROGERS

The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.
WILL ROGERS

You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.
WILL ROGERS

The very best reason parents are so special . . . is because we are the holders of a priceless gift,...
FRED ROGERS

Pain is such an uncomfortable feeling that even a tiny amount of it is enough to ruin every enjoymen...
WILL ROGERS

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
WILL ROGERS

Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.
WILL ROGERS

All I know is just what I read in the papers.
WILL ROGERS

Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.
WILL ROGERS

Cities depend on a healthy mix of uses and people for their vitality. As a pre-eminent world city, London is a magnet to people from across the globe.

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