Alvar Aalto Quotes

Once I tried to make a standardization of staircases. Probably that is one of the oldest of the standardizations. Of course, we design new staircase steps every day in connection with all our houses, but a standardized step depends on the height of the buildings and on all kinds of things.

Alvar Aalto

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: architect
  • Nationality: finnish
  • Birth: February 3, 1898 - May 11, 1976

Topics

DayStepStaircaseDesignBuildings

I'm a terrible golfer.

Jimmy Kimmel

TerribleGolfer

I got great sex education, and I always knew that if I wanted to be sexually active, I had to have safe sex.

Jenny Slate

EducationGreatSexActiveAlways

I can still dance a little, yes, but I like singing better. It's more fun.

Stanley Donen

DanceFunSingingBetterI CanMore

From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence.

Tony Campolo

BeginningGovernmentSocialBeenWho

Acting still rings my bell as much as it did in high school. Plus, I can now indulge my interests as a producer as well. My work is more fun than fun but, best of all, it's still very scary. You are always walking some kind of high wire.

Tom Hanks

WorkBestSchoolFunHigh School

I believe God gives people the right to say no, to resist, to refuse, to reject, to cling to their sins, to cling to their version of their story.

Rob Bell

GodPeopleBelieveStorySayRight

Any decent actor knows you can't judge the character you're playing.

Ross Lynch

CharacterJudgeYouActorPlaying

I'm quite into listening to music and not doing anything else.

Jonny Greenwood

MusicListeningDoingAnythingQuite

The FSG story starts to lose its fairy-tale aura when filthy lucre invades the sacred enclosure, as it did ubiquitously in the every-man-for-himself Reagan era.

Jonathan Galassi

StoryLoseAuraSacredStartsEra

If you allow fame to get the better of you, you become nuisance, a public nuisance, a nuisance as a friend, as a member of the family, a nuisance to yourself.

Dilip Kumar

FamilyFriendYourselfBetterYou

It's like, it's kind of like if you ever had a car and it was a bit of a clunker but you love it, that's my show. It's a bit of a clunker but I know where everything is and I like it.

Craig Ferguson

LoveCarYouKnowKindEverything

A director, I forget who, told me that it takes 30 years to make an actor. And I believe that. You have to learn your craft, learn your trade - and also you have to live a life and experience things.

Cillian Murphy

LifeLiveExperienceMeBelieveYou

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