Eero Saarinen Quotes

The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man's life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence.

Eero Saarinen

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• Now that I work as a professional model, I advise people to stay away from any television shows. It's a waste of your time; it's just entertainment. It's not the fashion that we now know.

  

  Fatima Siad
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

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

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Movie
  • Write
  • Tough

• I'm the only one responsible for the choices I make and the opportunities I get. When you read the script, you don't know how it's going to shape up. You just know what you've been narrated.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Up
  • Know
  • Choices

• I can let go of a lot of stuff, but I focus on things I think I should, like dancing, because it takes 100 percent concentration on every step.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Think
  • Focus
  • Step

• When I left my home to become an actress, my father didn't give me a single penny. I struggled a lot, and they had no idea what I went through. My grandfather even asked me to drop my surname when he learnt I was joining films.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Home
  • Father
  • Single

• We travel a lot and don't get enough time to spend with our family, and so we have to take our pictures, videos, also bother about things like which are the HD quality phones. So I'm very much a part of these typical things.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Time
  • Family
  • Quality

• 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

• My aim was to safeguard justice, without doing harm to our war effort.

  

  Hans Frank
  • War
  • Justice
  • Effort

• 'Orange Is the New Black' was by far the most watched show in both France and Germany and, in fact, all of the markets that we launched.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Black
  • New
  • Orange

• The only thing that I know is that, growing up, I came across stumbling blocks, and I always said to myself, 'If I ever get into a position to do something about this, I would like to, so that somebody does not deal with what I went through.'

  

  Chandra Wilson
  • Up
  • Growing

• I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent.

  

  Marie Windsor
  • Dance
  • Shoes
  • Ballet

• People were referring to me as the new Anita Bryant. Anita would get a little jealous.

  

  Kathie Lee Gifford
  • People

• Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Life
  • Modesty
  • Affectation

• When I read what 'GLOW' was about, it just felt like something where I could make as many faces as I wanted, and it would totally make sense!

  

  Betty Gilpin

• I've been beaten. I know what that's like. They say, 'Who has been a nail can learn to be a hammer.' So I know what it is to beat people.

  

  David Milch
  • People

• The history of my state of Oklahoma offers a great example of pursuing the American Dream. It was built and settled by pioneers moving West to seek better lives.

  

  Mary Fallin
  • Great
  • American
  • History

• If you look at any ancient civilization, they've all used fantasy stories to train the young.

  

  David Gemmell

• I don't think I'm alarmist. I'm more disappointed by the euphemisms in some instances than outright bigotry. Now, to me, you walk around with a Klan hat on or you've got a swastika on you arm, you just look like a dope, you know what I mean?

  

  John Ridley
  • Dope

• I'm getting closer...

  

  Andy Murray

• Now that I'm a wiser, older human, when I do photo shoots, I specifically say, 'Please do not airbrush my moles out.' Because they will do it, to make you homogenized.

  

  Busy Philipps

• You keep accusing me of blasphemy all of the time, but I cannot be convicted of a victimless crime.

  

  Dan Barker
  • Crime
  • Atheism
  • Blasphemy

• There are two qualities that make fiction. One is the sense of mystery and the other is the sense of manners. You get the manners from the texture of existence that surrounds you. The great advantage of being a Southern writer is that we don't have to go anywhere to look for manners; bad or good, we've got them in abundance. We in the South live in a society that is rich in contradiction, rich in irony, rich in contrast, and particularly rich in its speech.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Good
  • Great
  • Live

• The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man's life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence.

  

  Eero Saarinen
  • Existence
  • Architecture
  • Nobility