Alvar Aalto Quotes

Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this comedy.

Alvar Aalto

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• I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.

  

  Larry Hovis
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• Every morning I wake up and thank God.

  

  Aaron Neville
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• It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that it is evident that this science can make a contribution to a range of studies that will be of interest to almost anyone.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
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• For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

  

  Jack Canfield
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• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
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• I always wanted pink hair.

  

  Rachel McAdams
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• I don't weigh into politics.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Politics
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• I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.

  

  Pat Cash
  • You
  • Tennis
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• I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Think
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• I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Movies
  • Down
  • Million

• I've always been working just to be a world champion and it's a dream come true.

  

  Yohan Blake
  • World
  • True
  • Dream

• What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Me
  • Support
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• If I go out in the open ocean environment, virtually anywhere in the world, and I drag a net from 3,000 feet to the surface, most of the animals - in fact, in many places, 80 to 90 percent of the animals that I bring up in that net - make light. This makes for some pretty spectacular light shows.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Up
  • World
  • Pretty

• I love the produce section at the grocery store.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Produce
  • Store
  • Grocery

• 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 like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Music
  • Me
  • Sound

• It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot.

  

  Ted Hughes
  • Creation
  • Now
  • Foot

• I was slicking my hair back when I was in sixth grade.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Hair
  • Back
  • Grade

• I'd been on the Internet since the 1970s when it was just for nerds. I started saying, 'Who would benefit from this?' I started imagining a world where young people could have their own email address, back in the days of family AOL accounts.

  

  Jay Samit
  • People
  • World
  • Family

• I always admired very much the virtuosity in Strauss because, really, he's a master of using the orchestra. And I like virtuosity, I must say, even if the taste of the music is not always mine.

  

  Pierre Boulez
  • Music

• I am a control freak, but not when I travel. For some reason when I travel, I am able to surrender more than in my real life. I am able to let go. I think it's why I like it so much.

  

  Chelsea Cain
  • Life
  • Real
  • Why

• I guess the one thing I really learned from participating in sports was to just never say 'no', never stop trying, and to always believe that you can do better than the next fellow. I tried to follow this throughout my life, but I always tried to be respectful about it.

  

  Bruce Bennett
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Trying

• But when all was said the important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Important

• Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this comedy.

  

  Alvar Aalto
  • Life
  • Music
  • Comedy