Schinkel Quotes

#1. Schinkel's aesthetic was not a crudely materialistic "truth to material" affair ... but rather an attempt to inform iron and other industrial materials with an appropriate beauty through the direct collaboration of the artist in the manufacturing process.

Karl Friedrich Schinkel

#2. Schinkel was not arbitrary in his use of historical modes but rather eclectic in the best sense of the word. He could search the past for its conspicuous successes using them both freely and discursively as the basis for a contemporary architecture.

Karl Friedrich Schinkel

#3. I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.

Mike Tyson

#4. I wished that I ... had no savvy at all. No savvy to cause me heartache. No savvy to make me hope, and then leave me useless.

Ingrid Law

#5. Remember that while Christians say "Jesus saves," we Jews say "Moses invests.

Celso Cukierkorn

#6. I know grief, and it is a chasm.

Tessa Gratton

#7. Indifference to the fine arts comes close to barbarism.

Karl Friedrich Schinkel

#8. Resources are being destroyed, and if you don't have resources, you can't do business.

Jochen Zeitz

#9. Courtesy is a small act but it packs a mighty wallop.

Lewis Carroll

#10. People do incredibly stupid things when they are frightened

Kirsten Beyer

#11. That there should be a purpose to suffering, that a person should be chosen for it, special - these are houses of the mind, in which whole peoples have found shelter.

Gish Jen

#12. I think cynicism often disguises itself as humour.

Michka Assayas

#13. In one generation of silent neglect, we have allowed the revisionists of our history to rewrite our past and deny that we have a Christian heritage.

Rick Scarborough

#14. Come here till I tell you. Where is the sea high and the winds soft and moist and warm, sometimes stained with sun, with peace so wild for wishing where all is told and telling.

J.P. Donleavy

#15. I put less stock in others' opinions than my own. No one else's opinions could derail me.

Judd Nelson

#16. Growing into an environment in which everyone else seems bigger and more powerful, every child seeks to gain what they need by the easiest route.

Tom Butler-Bowdon

#17. Texaco's chairman, the Hitler-admiring Torkild Rieber, was using the company's tankers to smuggle oil to the rebels in defiance of a specific request from President Roosevelt.

Ken Follett