Because my soul marches to the beat of an Icon Army, does not mean i am at war. It simply means that if there was a war, i would have the anthem...


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I think anybody with an insecurity, which is everyone, appreciates the fact that it's much easie...
JAMES VAN DER BEEK
Life begins as a quest of the child for the man and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the...
LAURENS VAN DER POST
There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individ...
LAURENS VAN DER POST
There is no good lighting that is healthy and for our well being without proper darkness.
ROGER VAN DER HEIDE
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they ...
LAURENS VAN DER POST
The ego certainly is the biggest obstacle as an artist or performer, so any chance you get to destro...
JAMES VAN DER BEEK
I was dyslexic, so math and formulas were not necessarily my strong suit.
JAMES VAN DER BEEK
It's a free country and I can keep my mouth shut whenever I want.
JAMES VAN DER BEEK
The Internet, and Google, and everything that goes along with that is awesome for some things, but n...
ANNELIESE VAN DER POL
I visited the Gymnasium in The Hague and passed my final examination (in the sciences section) in 19...
SIMON VAN DER MEER
I remember the moment when I looked at a newsstand and stared at myself on a cover for the first tim...
FREDERIQUE VAN DER WAL
..."Suzette Boon also become very much involved [in dissocation]... She was in my office and was a f...
ONNO VAN DER HART
The psychological impact of trauma in both the military and civilian arenas has been documented for ...
ONNO VAN DER HART
We have to rethink the way we light our cities. We have to think again about light as a default solu...
ROGIER VAN DER HEIDE
There is actually a physical connection between light and our health and wellbeing.
ROGIER VAN DER HEIDE
My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.
SIMON VAN DER MEER
Dit is geen kroeg of studentehuis. Dit is een ziekenhuis en het is niet de bedoeling dat hier 's avo...
MYRTHE VAN DER MEER
Modern man has lost the sense of wonder
about the unknown and he treats it as
an enemy.
LAURENS VAN DER POST
We have the responsibility to care for the ocean as it cares for us
SUZANNE VAN DER VEEKEN
Life begins as a quest of the child for the man and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the c...
LAURENS VAN DER POST
Organized religion is making Christianity political rather than making politics Christian.
LAURENS VAN DER POST
I always show up to work and give it everything, and some things turn out better than others - and s...
JAMES VAN DER BEEK
The contrast with the scans of the eighteen chronic PTSD patients with severe early-life trauma was ...
BESSEL VAN DER KOLK
Dissociation is adaptive: it allows relatively normal functioning for the duration of the traumatic ...
BESSEL VAN DER KOLK
It is a hopeless endeavor to make the form and content of earlier architectural epochs usable for ou...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE
The building art is, in reality, always the spatial execution of spiritual decisions. It is bound to...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE
Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE
The idea of service leads to community.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE
It took me a long time to understand the relationship between ideas and between objective facts. But...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE
Each material has its specific characteristics which we must understand if we want to use it. This i...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE
Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfoldi...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE
It is much better to have just one idea, and if the idea is clear, then you can fight for it. That i...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE
Technology is far more than a method, it is a world in itself. As a method, it is superior in almost...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE
Industrialization of the building trade is a question of material. Hence the demand for a new buildi...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE
Technology is rooted in the past. It dominates the present and tends into the future. It is a real h...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE
The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reach...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE
Reinforced concrete buildings are by nature skeletal buildings. No noodles nor armoured turrets. A c...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE
I really don't know the Chicago School. You see, I never walk. I always take taxis back and fort...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE
The building art is man's spatial dialogue with his environment and demonstrates how he asserts ...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE
Education must lead us from the irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgment. It must lead us ...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. Living, Changing, New. Not yesterday, no...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE
What finally is beauty? Certainly nothing that can be calculated or measured. It is always something...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE
Less is more.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE
God is in the details.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE
A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE
I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE
It is not possible to go forward while looking back.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE
I cut myself up really badly with the lid of a tin can. They took me to the emergency room, but I co...
BESSEL A. VAN DER KOLK
Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good polit...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE
The tendency of our time is wholly oriented toward the secular. The efforts of the mystics will rema...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE
Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last for...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE
True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us o...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE
Nothing can express the aim and meaning of our work better than the profound words of St. Augustine ...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE
We should attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together in a higher unity.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE
If one limits to developing only the kitchen and bathroom as standardized rooms because of their ins...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE
It is not architectural achievement that makes the structures of earlier times seem to us so full of...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE