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A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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Category: Famous

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. After thirty a body has a mind of its own.
  • 2. Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
  • 3. In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I know no subject more elevating more amazing more ready to the poetical enthusiasm the philosophical reflection and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety such beauty such magnificence?
  • 2. Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.
  • 3. I believe I could have had a career in the music industry without 'X Factor ' but it was an amazing platform that propelled me to where I am now.

3 Anger

  • 1. I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have and it's cathartic as well because I create art out of anger something positive out of something negative.
  • 2. Speak when you are angry – and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
  • 3. When you are offended at any man's fault turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight dinner soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays I go Fridays.
  • 2. Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!
  • 3. Mr. Speaker I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1 2006.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Switzerland is a small steep country much more up and down than sideways and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.
  • 2. The English light is so very subtle so very soft and misty that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.
  • 3. Buildings should serve people not the other way around.
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