Milton Glaser Quotes

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

Milton Glaser

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• I suffer from a more complex, persistent fear. It manifests itself in nerves, and on film the camera sees even the tiniest evidence of this. So you have to learn that when the director calls 'Action,' you don't go to this place of tension, but somehow you become free.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Free
  • Fear
  • Action

• I think there is some truth to the fact that yeah, okay, cool, obviously the more mainstream kind of easier-to-grasp-onto dance music has become popular, but that holds true with almost any genre. It wasn't like the Sex Pistols hit the radio. It was poppier versions of that is what hit. It's never, like, the true core stuff.

  

  Kaskade
  • Music
  • Truth
  • True

• I don't believe love goes away just because you're buried in a casket.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Believe
  • Love
  • For Him

• Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • History
  • Past
  • Study

• I prefer doing interviews where people don't have to interpret what you say. I'm going to be real honest.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Real
  • Doing

• Let it be known: I am a free agent. I'm operating as an independent label. I do not have corporate sponsors. I don't have no corporate backing. I don't have no major distribution.

  

  T.I.
  • Independent
  • Agent
  • Sponsors

• As long as we set up equality, we'll go in the right direction.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Long
  • Equality

• There's five cameras, I don't know how many people in the audience... depending on where we're taping, there can be anywhere from 300 to 5,000 people, so the contestants are nervous.

  

  Vanna White
  • People
  • Know
  • Nervous

• One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.

  

  Cal Thomas
  • People
  • Power
  • Truth

• I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • You
  • Enough
  • Look

• I think if people were to look at badminton and tennis, they'd see they're actually very similar; the profile would increase, and we might be in a better position as a sport.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • People
  • Better
  • Tennis

• There is a strong demand for Michael Jackson's music and merchandise, and that will only increase as more material surfaces in the years following his death.

  

  Adam Kluger
  • Music
  • Death
  • Strong

• People think it’s a failure to live alone. But it isn’t. The failure is to live with someone because you can’t face anything else.

  

  M. John Harrison
  • People
  • Live
  • Alone

• Among the most striking things that I have learned is how much we have in common. I’ve sat down with people everywhere, discussing what was in their hearts and on their minds. And it doesn’t take long to find commonality, which is often overlooked, ignored, dismissed, and rejected otherwise.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • Long

• As far as cities go, Havana is a festering treasure chest, a primary color.

  

  Brin-Jonathan Butler
  • Color

• I love being in the States because there's an emphasis on work. People are enthusiastic. They put heart into things.

  

  Lea Seydoux
  • People
  • Work
  • Heart

• I think Nat's an amazing actor... He understands things about acting that most people don't.

  

  Alex Wolff
  • People
  • Amazing

• Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Up

• The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Mind
  • Soul
  • Perfect

• I don't think she ever had a single initiative at the United Nations that was not previously [vetted] by the people at the State Department, approved of, and authorized. She did manage to get around the world an awful lot, and find other parts of her vast slum project that needed repair. But I don't think that that was the main point. The main point was that she, after all, connoted Franklin Roosevelt, who by then was long dead, and had a certain prestige and power on that account.

  

  William A. Rusher
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Accounts

• EVOO is extra-virgin olive oil. I first coined 'EVOO' on my cooking show because saying 'extra virgin olive oil' over and over was wordy, and I'm an impatient girl - that's why I make 30-minute meals!

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Why
  • Girl
  • Cooking

• A fellowship to Oxford acquainted me with the depths of English cooking. By the twenty-first century, London's best restaurants are as good as Paris's, but not in the 1950s.

  

  Donald Hall
  • Good
  • English
  • Cooking

• When I was at Oracle, we watched Computer Associates buy all those mainframe software companies and milk them for their license revenue. I never thought that's what Oracle would be doing one day, and yet, here it is.

  

  Marc Benioff
  • Computer
  • Revenue
  • Oracle

• Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

  

  Milton Glaser
  • Cooking
  • Computer
  • Microwaves