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Adolf Loos Quotes

It does not do to use it with forms whose origin is intimately bound up with a specific material simply because no technical difficulties stand in the way.

Adolf Loos

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: architect
Nationality: austrian
Birth: December 10, 1870 - August 23, 1933

Topics

Stand Way Difficulties Up Origin

The Constitution is clear, Article I, Section 8, power vetted in Congress to declare war. If you go back to the founding documents of this nation, the decision of going to war was to be made by people closest to the ground - the elected officials - to make those decisions.

John Barrasso

Power Decision War People Decisions

Such manifestations I account as representing the creative leadership of the new forces of thought and appreciation which attend changes in technological pattern and therefore of the pattern of human relationships in society.

John Grierson

Leadership Creative Appreciation New

What I see as the particularly exciting prospect for writing horror fiction as we go forward is setting stories in more internal landscapes than external ones, mapping out the mind as the home for scary things instead of the house at the end of the lane or lakeside campground or abandoned amusement park.

Andrew Pyper

Home Mind Writing Forward End House

The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red.

Andy Goldsworthy

Red Stone Blood Why Reason Content

Why does a three-year-old, and it's usually boys, want to drive the tractor or have machinery and be in control of it? I don't know. Why wouldn't you ask to boil a kettle or something? Maybe you would, I dunno.

Michael Fassbender

Control Drive You Know Want Why

I don't pay attention to Australia, mate.

Steven Adams

Attention Australia Pay Attention Pay

Steve Jobs just made a product. He started off where a lot of people were skeptical of what he was doing, and he basically just focused on the product and making it the best he could, and really focused on what it was that these products would take into your lives.

Joshua Michael Stern

Best People Doing Focused Product

I like to play acoustic slide. I like that. I just... I can do it, you know. But it ain't my cup of tea.

Dickey Betts

Tea You I Can Play Know Cup

I had such a nice time making it, and I can't wait to make the fifth one. The whole crew were just really, really lovely. All the costume people, the make-up girls, the kids - even my driver.

David Thewlis

Time People Wait Nice Lovely Driver

In America, when you hear about the Underground Railroad, it's so evocative. You think it's a literal subway for a few minutes before your teacher goes on and describes where it actually was.

Colson Whitehead

Teacher Think America You Railroad

Those that start things have an advantage over those that follow.

Cliff Burton

Start Follow Over Things Advantage

My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants.

Anthony Hopkins

Laziness Cookies Weak Oh Spot Spots