Walter Gropius Quotes

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

Walter Gropius

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• I'm very heterosexual, so dating women is something I'm not ashamed of. But my love life is not as exciting as it is reported to be.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Life
  • Love
  • Exciting

• As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Dead
  • Ghost
  • Civil

• A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Church
  • Heaven
  • Never

• I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • People
  • Inspired
  • Appreciate

• A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • People
  • Water
  • Fat

• Gregory Lee Johnson was an idiot.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Idiot
  • Johnson
  • Lee

• When team members trust each other and know that everyone is capable of admitting when they're wrong, then conflict becomes nothing more than the pursuit of truth or the best possible answer.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Truth
  • Team
  • Best

• I think that if you do want to be a fighter, then you need to work harder than everybody else and make sure that you surround yourself with good people, especially if you're a woman. You've got to find a team that takes you seriously as a female fighter and is not going to rush you into the ring before you're ready.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Rest
  • California
  • Nation

• In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Done
  • Just
  • Collective

• I don't know how anyone could stop working.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Know
  • Stop
  • Working

• Stay away from the sun and remember the skin on a woman's neck, hands and face is sensitive and ages easily, so apply a high SPF sunscreen on those areas.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Remember
  • High
  • Woman

• I haven't really tried to write a movie. It's tough to get into that mode.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Movie
  • Write
  • Tough

• As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Funny
  • Sound
  • Everyone

• Of the 25 songs we've recorded there were 24 that we wanted to have on an album. That wouldn't have worked. So when one of our wise managers suggested the idea of considering two different album, it cleared the way for us.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Different
  • Way
  • Wise

• When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Man

• I'm always writing and learning. It's about growth. So I'm growing as a musician, as a guitarist.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Writing
  • Growing
  • Learning

• A man should never neglect his family for business.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Family
  • Business
  • Man

• New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Work
  • Myself
  • New York

• After my neurosurgery, part of my brain was missing, and I had to deal with that. It wasn't the grey matter, but it was the gooey part dead center that makes key hormones and neurotransmitters.

  

  Mary Lou Jepsen
  • Brain
  • Missing

• I enjoyed the Hee Haw people, but from 1980 on I didn't enjoy it and thought about leavin', and thought, hell, it's an easy job and pays wonderful. I kinda just prostituted myself for their money.

  

  Buck Owens
  • People
  • Money
  • Job

• I went to Carnegie Mellon and was an electrical engineer, but electrical engineering wasn't right for me.

  

  David M. Kelley
  • Engineering

• A soup like this is not the work of one man. It is the result of a constantly refined tradition. There are nearly a thousand years of history in this soup.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Men
  • Food
  • Results

• Architecture begins where engineering ends.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Architecture
  • Engineering