Behrens Quotes

#1. Behrens had a great sense of the great form. that was his main interest; and that I certainly understood and learned from him.

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

#2. Oh, by the way, the plot: it almost slipped my mind. Charlie French bought my mother's pictures cheap and sold them dear to Binkie Behrens, then bought them cheap from Binkie and sold them on to Max Molyneaux. Something like that. Does it matter? Dark deeds, dark deeds. Enough.

John Banville

#3. Design is not about decorating functional forms - it is about creating forms that accord with the character of the object and that show new technologies to advantage.

Peter Behrens

#4. No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.

Paulo Coelho

#5. Do solemnly swear to love, honor and obey my soul, my path to realization and relationship with a higher, deeper creative power, for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, from now and forever more.

Alex Grey

#6. Marriage is a mystery.

Peter Behrens

#7. Is courage just the awareness that gestures, journeys, lives have intrinsic shape, and must, one way or another, be completed?

Peter Behrens

#8. For all of life is Christmas, an eternal gift from God.

James Behrens

#9. Type is one of the most eloquent means of expression in every epoch of style. Next to architecture, it gives the most characteristic portrait of a period and the most severe testimony of a nation's intellectual status.

Peter Behrens

#10. I can either run the country or I can control Alice, but I can't possibly do both.

Rebecca Behrens

#11. Success is in the trying, not the triumph.

Andy Behrens

#12. Allow your past achievements to provide fuel for your current goals.

Josh Hinds

#13. It would be interesting if Elvis were reincarnated as an Elvis impersonator.

Demetri Martin

#14. Quoting E. B. White is the easiest way I know of to fool people into thinking that I am perceptive, witty, and wise.

Peter Behrens

#15. Don't think that even an engineer, when he buys a motor, takes it to bits to scrutinize it. Even he as a specialist buys from the external appearance. A motor ought to look like a birthday present.

Peter Behrens

#16. To shift a few grains of sand is no more a sign of great strength than to see the sun a sign of great sight. There is no glory in dominating the weak.

Peter V. Brett

#17. In some ways, I am able to feel more like a part of my family while I am missing them. It's normal to feel lonely when you are away from your loved ones, but it's queer to feel lonely while surrounded by family.

Rebecca Behrens