Walter Gropius Quotes

If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.

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• I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Stupid

• A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Sleep

• Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Nature
  • Death
  • Humility

• There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Time
  • Never
  • Word

• Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Me
  • Diversity
  • Helpful

• Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Up
  • Work
  • Myself

• What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.

  

  Edith Evans
  • Want
  • Beauty
  • Theatre

• One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Ideas
  • Army
  • Brainy

• I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Done
  • Age
  • Acting

• In my day, I wasn't the best footballer, but I was the best goalscorer for two or three years.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Day
  • Best
  • Three

• But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Time
  • Intelligence
  • Others

• I was quite short and chubby until I was 14, when I shot up.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Up
  • Short
  • Chubby

• Life started getting good when I started making money.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Life
  • Good
  • Money

• We think nothing of protecting consumers from faulty toasters or unsafe cars. Is it unreasonable to suggest that investors are entitled to information they can trust before investing their hard-earned money? I don't think it's unreasonable at all.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Money
  • Trust
  • Information

• I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Writer
  • Sure

• It's hard because people often don't recognise shyness; they think it's just someone being rude. I have had to work to overcome that, especially if I'm meeting my readers at author events, because I don't want them to think I'm snooty or rude.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Work
  • Think

• One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Great
  • Stupid
  • Poet

• Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Girl
  • Knows
  • Innocent

• I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.

  

  Nadine Gordimer

• Caesar recognized the omens, but he didn't believe they applied to him.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Believe
  • Him
  • Recognized

• I think working with Johnny Depp was very intimidating. It was my fault though. I mean he's a total cool nice, nice guy, but I was just so, I don't know, overpowered by his presence. Like he's a very mystic person. He's older so I never really warmed up around him. I was so stiff.

  

  Franka Potente
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Nice

• It takes a great deal of strong personality to survive the art school training. Hard nuts that the art schools can't crack and devour get through and become artists.

  

  John French Sloan
  • Great
  • School
  • Art

• The entire banking movement, at all crucial stages, was centralized in the hands of a few men who for years were linked, ideologically and personally, with one another.

  

  Gabriel Kolko
  • Men
  • Years
  • Hands

• If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.

  

  Walter Gropius
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