Michael Ende Quotes

No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.

Michael Ende

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: November 12, 1929 - August 29, 1995

Topics

LiveArchitecturePeopleBuilding

I like to be productive - it's very hard for me to go on vacation because I just feel like I'm losing time.

Jim James

TimeVacationLosingMeFeelGo

I get anxious. That lovely Jewish guilt that comes with ancestry.

Maya Rudolph

GuiltLovelyJewishGetAnxious

I've got so many weaknesses.

Mehmet Oz

GotWeaknessesMany

I don't support gay marriage. I'm just not there, as far as believing in my heart that we should change 2,000 years of social policy in favor of a redefinition of the family.

Matt Salmon

FamilyChangeMarriageHeartSupport

I've always thought of, of a relationship with an actor to an audience as a marriage, you know. And a story, you know. And there are ups and downs, and you work through them, and you work with them.

John Travolta

WorkMarriageRelationshipThought

Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes.

Trent Reznor

LifeGoodBalanceMy LifeMisery

My goal was always to be recognized as a good actor but no one was interested in that, simply because society just wants to warm towards your appearance. This is the great blemish of society.

Jude Law

GoodGreatSocietyWarmGoalActor

When I'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big trouble if you think about it. You're got to write from deep inside.

Judy Blume

WritingBookDeepThinkYouTrouble

My paranoia never ends, but I haven't been paranoid about being spied on my shadowy forces for some time now.

Jon Ronson

TimeNowNeverParanoidParanoia

You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young.

Douglas Coupland

LifeYouYoungOldBeingYour

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.

Arne Jacobsen

ArchitectureAestheticPossibleTask

I like movies. Movies have afforded me a modicum of luxuries. The thing about the movies is, if you're bad in a movie, you're bad forever.

Anthony Mackie

MeYouBadMoviesForeverLike

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