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.Walter Gropius
Quotes to Explore
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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 -
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
Victor Hugo -
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 -
There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
Baltasar Gracian -
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 -
What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.
Edith Evans
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
Victor Hugo -
I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
Samuel Larsen -
In my day, I wasn't the best footballer, but I was the best goalscorer for two or three years.
Gary Lineker -
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 -
I was quite short and chubby until I was 14, when I shot up.
Rajiv Ouseph -
Life started getting good when I started making money.
Balthazar Getty
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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 -
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 -
One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.
Umberto Eco -
Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
D. H. Lawrence -
I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.
Patricia McCormick -
I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I can always go back to construction. That's great money, but the problem is you can cut off your hand.
Benjamin Walker -
We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done.
Barbara Jordan -
I've never been one of those actors who plays chess with his career and goes, 'I'm going to wait now and see what project comes up that can move me to this or that level.' I take stuff as it comes, and it just so happens that it hasn't dried up yet, touch wood.
Mark Strong -
What after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.
Christopher Fry -
I guess I'm lucky to have been blindsided. I'm lucky to have gotten into fistfights, in a way. I'm lucky I learned how to stop them.
Uma Thurman -
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