Aldo Rossi Quotes

“It does not seem possible to me to conceive anything sadder than a monument composed of a smooth, naked and unadorned surface, of a light absorbent material, absolutely bare of details, and of which the decoration is formed by a composition of shadows, drawn by shadows still darker.”

Aldo Rossi

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• The Government of Iraq also owes a debt to the American and coalition forces who are fighting the insurgency and helping put that country back together after decades of repression.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Country
  • American
  • Together

• We began as restless and radical. Remember the spirit of 1997, but by the end of our time in office we had lost our way.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Lost

• Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Always
  • Top
  • Courteous

• My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Talent

• But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • You
  • Deserve
  • Affirmation

• The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• I always have to be writing.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Writing
  • Always

• A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Work
  • Heart
  • Done

• My sense of designing is a mix of intuition and intellectual control.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Control
  • Sense
  • Intellectual

• It's awesome when people respond to your movie and love it.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • People
  • Movie
  • Awesome

• The preparation for building a series of thrillers based on a single character is kind of like the preparation for becoming a parent: The best part is the idea - wink, wink.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Character
  • Single
  • Best

• When you look at people, you should look at more than what you see on the surface; you should try to find a soul.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • People
  • Soul
  • Look

• Look at the resplendent colours on the soap bubbles! Why is the sea blue?What makes diamond glitter!What makes Hubli So Special Ask the right questions, and nature will open the doors to her secrets

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Why
  • Nature
  • Sea

• The panel put targets, for example, on nutrition, education, ending preventable child deaths, encouraging birth registration, putting an end to violence against girls, and child marriage - all of which, if enacted, will improve the lives of billions of children throughout the world.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • World
  • Children
  • Education

• Forget the infinities: Concentrate on detail.

  

  Larry Niven

• The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Love
  • Man
  • Opposite

• But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting.

  

  Philip Gibbs
  • Done
  • Fighting

• Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Small
  • Prayer

• I don't always understand my worth.

  

  Ann Curry

• Any job I do-if it doesn’t work, somebody pays. Possibly hundreds or thousands of somebodies. That’s the price of good engineering; nobody notices you did your job right.

  

  Charles Stross
  • Good
  • Work
  • Job

• Moreover, no one is judged from the natural man, thus not so long as he lives in the natural world, for man is then in a natural body; but everyone is judged in the spiritual man, and therefore when he comes into the spiritual world, for man is then in a spiritual body.

  

  Emanuel Swedenborg
  • World
  • Long
  • Spiritual

• We shall confine this brief study of the Old Testament to the prophets, because they are the beating heart of the Old Testament.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Heart
  • Study

• “It does not seem possible to me to conceive anything sadder than a monument composed of a smooth, naked and unadorned surface, of a light absorbent material, absolutely bare of details, and of which the decoration is formed by a composition of shadows, drawn by shadows still darker.”

  

  Aldo Rossi
  • Dark
  • Details
  • Monument