Walter Gropius Quotes

The intellectual bourgeois of the old Empire - tepid and unimaginative, mentally slow, arrogant, and incorrectly trained - has proven his incapacity to be the bearer of German culture. His benumbed world is now toppled, its spirit is overthrown, and is in the midst of being recast into a new mold.

Walter Gropius

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: architect
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: May 18, 1883 - July 5, 1969

Topics

CultureWorldSlowNewIntellectual

I love the Minnesota State Fair, and I go with my family every August for nearly all 12 days.

Andrew Zimmern

FamilyLoveGoFairMinnesotaDays

It's not every day you get to be in a movie about Jackie Robinson, so you want to do it as right as you can.

Andre Holland

DayYouEvery DayWantRightGet

When I was growing up, the top movies dealt with grown-up, complex emotions.

John Slattery

Growing UpEmotionsGrowingMovies

In a rehearsal room, your real resource as an actor aren't the things around you; your resources are your imagination and your director and the other actors. In those close quarters, your imagination and your skills are what you turn to.

Stephen Lang

ImaginationYouSkillsActorTurn

Where two take counsel there is no lack of plans.

Silius Italicus

PlansTwoTakeWhereCounselLack

If I never have to write another word about cricket again, I'll be a happy man.

Joseph O'Neill

ManHappyCricketNeverWriteAgain

It's maybe hard to believe, but as a kid I really had a lot of self-doubts. My father was very ill - he was an alcoholic - so there were a lot of things that built up for me. And because I was going to a Catholic school in a small German town, a lot of it was suppressed. I was angry and didn't know how to get it out.

Diane Kruger

FatherSchoolAngryMeSmallKnow

You know, I have a responsibility to my team that if I'm going to be on the floor, then I have to make a difference.

Derek Fisher

ResponsibilityTeamMake A Difference

Look, we're in the time of the anti-hero.

Dean Norris

TimeLook

I think much of my own quest in life is to figure out how best to cope with my own uncertainties.

Chloe Benjamin

LifeBestThinkMy OwnOutOwn

I think I brush the surface of being involved politically with the issues and the personalities in the news.

Constance Zimmer

ThinkNewsInvolvedBeingSurface

The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.

Alfred de Vigny

CharacterMindBelieveTrueHuman

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