Jonathan Ive Quotes

I think a beautiful product that doesn't work very well is ugly.

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• I get tired of comedies where there are a bunch of funny guys and a beautiful woman who doesn't do anything funny. And I don't like books where there's a rough-and-tumble boy and a really clever, snotty girl. That's just not my experience with teenagers.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Experience
  • Beautiful
  • Girl

• A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.

  

  Irving Penn
  • House
  • Beautiful
  • Just

• A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Struggle

• Suzhou is an ancient city full of old gardens that are very famous in China. It is very beautiful. Plus, I met my boyfriend there!

  

  Fei Fei Sun
  • Beautiful
  • City
  • Famous

• When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they're selling something that doesn't exist. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are terrible to each other for an hour, accidentally kiss, then decide to like each other during an extremely vague montage. That isn't how people fall in love.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Feel

• Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• I do think that this planet is a totally unjust planet. I mean throughout history - history paints a beautiful picture when it's written by the victorious, but it's a planet that belongs to the strong and the more able, and usually they are tyrants. So basically, I don't see justice happening to the crushed and the weak.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • History
  • Beautiful
  • Strong

• Thin people are beautiful, but fat people are adorable.

  

  Jackie Gleason
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Adorable

• Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star.

  

  Barry White
  • Art
  • Beautiful
  • Star

• I love to put on diamonds and beautiful evening gowns and make my girl-friends upset.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Friends
  • Beautiful
  • Girl

• When you start falling for somebody and you can't stop thinking about when you're going to see them again, I love that. Women are beautiful. They deserve to be cherished and respected.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Women
  • Love
  • Beautiful

• I'm really trying to respond to the foods that are in the stores and just pulling the things that are the very best and cook what looks beautiful and is seasonal. That's the way to go. I love going to the grocery store and the market. None of it's drudgery for me. Washing dishes is the drudgery.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Trying
  • Love
  • Beautiful

• One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • People
  • Art
  • Beautiful

• 'People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish. But that's only if it's done properly.'

  

  Banksy
  • People
  • Done
  • Ugly

• A spectacular anomaly came up with the hydrides of the nonmetals-an ugly bunch, about as inimical to life as one could get. Arsenic and antimony hydrides were very poisonous and smelly; silicon and phosphorous hydrides were spontaneously inflammable. I had made in my lab the hydrides of sulfur (H

  

  Oliver Sacks
  • Life
  • Up
  • Ugly

• I have a few childhood nicknames. One is 'Babygirl'. My father gave that to me when I was born. He said, 'I have a beautiful baby girl' and that one stuck with me. A lot of people still call me 'Babygirl'.

  

  Aaliyah
  • People
  • Father
  • Beautiful

• I always felt like Baba hated me a little. And why not? After all, I had killed his beloved wife, his beautiful princess, hadn't I? The least I could have done was to have the decency to have turned out a little more like him.

  

  Khaled Hosseini
  • Done
  • Why
  • Beautiful

• ..the thing was to choose one a ready-made object that you were not attracted by.. ..and that was difficult because anything becomes beautiful if you look at it long enough.. .My intention was to completely eliminate the existence of taste, bad or good or indifferent.

  

  Marcel Duchamp
  • Good
  • Long
  • Bad

• There is one universal truth: All women, all over the world, want to look beautiful. That is always the theme of my designs.

  

  Prabal Gurung
  • World
  • Women
  • Truth

• I have a child to feed and a spirit that can't be crushed, so I'm able to move ahead.

  

  Carnie Wilson Wilson Phillips

• To endow animals with human emotions has long been a scientific taboo. But if we do not, we risk missing something fundamental, about both animals and us.

  

  Frans de Waal
  • Long
  • Risk
  • Missing

• The summer following the winter that my mother took off into something called Women's Land for what I could only guess would be all eternity, my father decided that there was no choice but for him to quit his despised job and take me and my brother to the beach for at least the entire summer and possibly longer.

  

  Bennett Madison
  • Job
  • Eternity
  • My Mother

• It was easy to share when there was enough, even barely enough, to go round. But when there was not enough? Then force entered in; might making right; power, and its tool, violence, and its most devoted ally, the averted eye.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Power
  • Violence

• I think a beautiful product that doesn't work very well is ugly.

  

  Jonathan Ive
  • Beautiful
  • Ugly
  • Product