The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.

The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort. He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs him. Thus he loves the house and hates art.

The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.

Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side.

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.

The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.

The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.

The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.

At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it.

Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.

Supply and demand regulate architectural form.

Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.

The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.

The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.

The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.

Tattooed men who are not behind bars are either latent criminals or degenerate aristocrats. If someone who is tattooed dies in freedom, then he does so a few years before he would have committed murder.

Our basic ideology coming into screenwriting was to write first and revise slowly, and things just came into place after that.

I feel like elements of race and identity and ethnicity are sort of missing in all of literature, not just in women's literature.

It's weird being a photographer because you really have to divorce yourself from the image.

There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town.

It's a real player move to take a girl wine-tasting on a date - she'll like that.

I'm not difficult to work with, trust me.

I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on.

All my comrades must continue to exert their efforts according to my 'Programme of National Reconstruction,' 'Outline of Reconstruction,' the 'Three Principles of the People,' and the 'Manifesto' issued by the First National Congress of our Party, and strive on earnestly for the consummation of the end we have in view.

I used to get made fun of a lot for being a male dancer, especially growing up in Boston. Kids are terrible, they don't realize how heavy words can be.

Being a girl doesnt make you weak Parker. It makes you special.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

Although it happens more rarely in men, breast cancer is not gender-specific. I was in Costa Rica, and in the shower I felt this lump under my left nipple. It was very small, mind you, but enough to make me call my doctor.

Here's how I think of my money - as soldiers - I send them out to war everyday. I want them to take prisoners and come home, so there's more of them.

It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.

To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.

Education standards need to be set at the state level. High standards are an important way to ensure that the education system we are funding is actually working and producing, at a minimum, what we would expect it to.

Let no one profess to trust in God, and yet lay up for future wants, otherwise the Lord will first send him to the hoard he has amassed, before He can answer the prayer for more.

It makes me feel so amazing to know there's people out here that support me and follow me on Twitter and watch my shows on YouTube and come to my concert, so I'm very thankful.

Define irony: a bunch of idiots dancing around on a plane to a song

If you make a mistake, your opponent can punish, and you end up losing the game.

I always thought that feminine, softer side was just too vulnerable to put out there, because then it's like you're opening up a door for everybody to come in, and you don't know who's going to come in that door.

Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.

If you're financially responsible, your children have a much better chance to grow up financially responsible.

Personally, my twenties were a complete waste of time. Professionally, I hope some good came of them.