Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Quotes

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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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• The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Time
  • World
  • True

• I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Peace
  • Proud
  • Name

• Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Men
  • Words
  • Eye

• With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Try
  • Gentleman
  • To Be

• It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Money
  • Independent
  • Easy

• I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Want
  • Ideas
  • Own

• My parents were both entrepreneurs.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Parents
  • Both
  • Were

• A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don't know how to satisfy both palates.

  

  Q-Tip
  • People
  • Good
  • Art

• I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.

  

  Kat Dahlia
  • People
  • Want
  • Hill

• Nashville, I think, for me, personally, would be where I want to live and work. L.A. is a whole other world and has a whole other vibe to it, so I would like to come out here for work for a couple of months, but L.A. is just not really my scene, per se.

  

  Caleb Johnson
  • World
  • Work
  • Live

• I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.

  

  Mahesh Bhupathi
  • World
  • Best
  • Talent

• It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Done
  • Journey
  • Stupid

• A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Way
  • Best
  • How

• The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.

  

  Ada Louise Huxtable
  • Age
  • Will
  • Now

• Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Day
  • Taken
  • Boy

• I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Good
  • Young
  • Guitar

• I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Love
  • Crowds
  • Festivals

• In reality, I don't see myself as a man hunter. In fact, when it comes to love, I am rarely the one to make the first move.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Man
  • Fact
  • Hunter

• People who are rich want to be richer, but what's the difference? You can't take it with you. The toys get different, that's all. The rich guys buy a football team, the poor guys buy a football. It's all relative.

  

  Martina Navratilova
  • People
  • Different
  • Team

• All I can do is try to create the best show possible, and I feel we've truly done that.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Done
  • Best
  • Try

• 'They can hopscotch around us,' Chris told Laura. They can pop ahead in time to see where we show up, then they pick and choose the easiest place along the time stream to ambush us. It's sorta like… if we were the cowboys and the Indians were all psychic.'

  

  Dean Koontz
  • Up
  • Time

• It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

  

  Epictetus
  • Nature
  • Wise

• A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished' work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.

  

  John Berger
  • Work
  • Drawing

• Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Work
  • Road
  • Discipline