Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Quotes

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. Living, Changing, New. Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only such architecture is creative.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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• Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Mind
  • Tell
  • Whatever

• All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Risk
  • Feel
  • Audience

• What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it's the people I meet and choosing the projects I want to work on correctly. There's a lot of characters I can play.

  

  Barkhad Abdi
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Powerful
  • Media

• I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Imagination
  • Own
  • Capitalism

• The first thing I ever invested in was Twitter. Blaine Cook, former CTO, was leaving the company and asked me if I wanted to buy his stock.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Company
  • Stock
  • Buy

• Believing in yourself and what you do is so important. It took me a long time to find that confidence. If you're an artist and you're taking risks, then you're doing something right if some people don't get it.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• It's not the situation, but whether we react negative or respond positive to the situation that is important.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Important
  • Positive
  • Negative

• Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Me
  • Ground
  • Keeps

• I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Music
  • Guy
  • Song

• Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Know
  • Famous

• What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Beginning
  • End
  • Start

• New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.

  

  Daniel Gillies
  • New
  • Behavior
  • Passive

• I moved to New York when I was 21 and worked between 40 and 70 hours a week. Then I invested it all. It was really just a hustle. But I was kind of raised to work like that, so to me, it seemed very normal and natural.

  

  Verite
  • Work
  • New York
  • Week

• My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Husband
  • Enjoy
  • Season

• Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Risk

• I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home.

  

  Earl Long
  • Home
  • Sweet
  • Voting

• The culture of self-gratification and deregulation that began during the Clinton years and continued under President George W. Bush led to the bursting of one stock market bubble at the turn of the century and a full-scale financial crash less than a decade later.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Culture
  • Years
  • Financial

• They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Genius
  • Capacity
  • Pains

• I think Marvin Gaye is one of the greatest American music icons. His 'What's Going On' is as fresh today as when he did it.

  

  Lynn Whitfield
  • Music
  • American
  • Today

• Princess Di is my sister, she just won't admit it.

  

  Courtney Love
  • She
  • Sister
  • Princess

• The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Lost
  • Feet

• You're so connected to people and they all know how to get to you, and everyone knows who you are, so explicitly. They think they know you. It's like, 'You really think you know me? I don't know me! How do you know I'm not different around someone else?

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • People
  • Different
  • Thinking

• Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. Living, Changing, New. Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only such architecture is creative.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Today
  • Space
  • Architecture