Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Quotes

The unformed is not worse than the over-formed. The former is nothing; the latter is mere appearance. Real form presupposes real life.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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• Every morning I wake up and thank God.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • God
  • Morning

• There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.

  

  Magnus Magnusson
  • Better
  • Walks
  • Exercises

• Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Me
  • Like
  • Trouble

• Working with Barneys, and choosing the looks, I was thinking about whether a real woman would buy this outfit and feel beautiful and comfortable.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Beautiful

• I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Short

• I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Career
  • Politics
  • Strength

• Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Attitude
  • Excellence
  • Skill

• You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Up
  • Light
  • Control

• I think I've always been somebody to break rules.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Think
  • Always
  • Rules

• My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Great
  • Heaven
  • Idea

• The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • People
  • Men
  • Dinner

• I think people probably think I self-start, but I don't... I'm an actor, and I like to be of use to the director. To be a muse.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Think
  • Like

• I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kicks in.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • History
  • Game
  • Missing

• Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Gold
  • Most
  • Even

• If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Life
  • World
  • Compassion

• Weeks go by, and I don't talk to another living soul.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Soul
  • Living
  • Talk

• There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Nature
  • Rules
  • Laws

• The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as one can, one finds oneself further and further away from an understanding of the whole.

  

  James Meade Kutless
  • Work
  • Knowledge
  • Understanding

• I've never called President Obama a racist. I love President Obama. I pray for him all the time. God loves President Obama. God loves you. And God loves me.

  

  Alveda King
  • Time
  • God
  • Pray

• When I first went to Pittsburgh, I had never been there before, and we hadn't even decided to shoot there yet. I just went to see the location of Michael Chabon's novel. Once there, I became aware that Pittsburgh is a "wonder boy," in the narrow sense of the term, just as the human characters are.

  

  Curtis Hanson
  • Character
  • Wonder
  • Boy

• So often, in my life, when you play a joke on another actor, you say, 'Hello? Steven Spielberg? It's for you.' What's it feel like? It's bizarre. He feels like he's a friend. He feels like he's some kid in the neighborhood who has a camera and makes films, now and then, and says, 'Would you come 'round and play?' It doesn't feel grand at all.

  

  Mark Rylance
  • Life
  • Friend

• We have seen the corrupting effects of a deliberate propaganda campaign driven by fake news.

  

  Jimmy Gomez
  • Fake

• The unformed is not worse than the over-formed. The former is nothing; the latter is mere appearance. Real form presupposes real life.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Life
  • Real
  • Appearance