Abdullah of Saudi Arabia's Quotes

How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?

I believe that people are fundamentally are decent. And, yes, you will have people that sometimes will misbehave.

I had a dual role: designer and advocate.

I have no choice but to fight them every step of the way. I can't tell you how many other stupid ideas have been proposed over the last two years.

I love New York, but I'd felt like an outsider here.

I think my desire to imagine a future for this site came out of trying to come to terms with the emotions that day aroused.

I'm a little more measured. That sense of urgency I thought accompanied things - it can take a little longer. You have to take the long view.

If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York.

It was really a magical moment, to see this idea that's in your head.

New York was a place I wanted to live and work all along. If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York.

There are bound to be differences in any artistic collaboration with landscape elements, or theater, of lighting elements.

You can just never desist. You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.

You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.

As architects we are often involved in the concrete-steel-and-glass aspect of it, but cities are social structures, and to be involved in imagining the future of cities and the type of relationships and the types of places that we're making is something that intrigues me very much.

For two years nobody talked about anything other than the name arrangement. There was no fund-raising and no progress being made on construction and design.

I hope for the experience of people standing together, turning their backs to the city and facing this, and hearing the leaves rustle. Well, maybe it won't be as bucolic as at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, but I know you will feel removed from the city.

I pushed the process forward by saying, 'We should do this, this, and this right now. Please find the budget for me to find a structural engineer, a mechanical engineer, a civil engineer, so we can do the preliminary work.'

I really appreciate artists of the 20th century, and I can see a lot of their influence on my work, but to suggest that my design only fits within an 'ism' kind of bothers me.

It sounds really over the top to say you're responsible for the city of New York, but I do feel responsibility to the city of New York, to this country, to people everywhere. So many people were affected by the events of September 11, and I feel this is one of the ways that that event will be understood and defined.

No rendering can really simulate the way the light bounces off the bronze panel. From some angles, it's almost a mirror, and from others it's a matte surface.

When I started this project, I was a young architect. I was very apprehensive about any changes to the design. Whether I wanted to or not, I learned that you can accept some changes to its form without compromising its intent. But it's a leap of faith that I didn't want to make initially - to put it mildly.

I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart.

We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem.

The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.

Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.

Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist.

This is my homeland no one can kick me out.

We will not bend or fail until the blood of every last Jew from the youngest child to the oldest elder is spilt to redeem our land!

Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.

In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth.

The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.

It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel.

Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis.