Neville Brody Quotes

We're very concerned with language and how language works. We're trying to engage people rather than dictate how they should be thinking.

Neville Brody

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• I think artists are really the root of a tree. They can search for truth or reality in their own way, and the gallery can support them - the outside part of the tree, where it is more about reaching the outside world, connecting with the outside world. That is the role of the gallery, no? Why does the artist have to do that?

  

  A. Balasubramaniam
  • World
  • Why
  • Truth

• There was a verse that said if you are lukewarm rather than hot or cold, God will spit you out of his mouth on Judgment Day. And I felt like, I mean, I don't know. I'm lukewarm.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • God
  • Day
  • Cold

• I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.

  

  Larry David
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Reading

• Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Nature
  • Spiritual
  • Aesthetic

• I feel a man, when married, becomes more balanced. All the extra-curricular activities are done away with. The focus is on work and family.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Work
  • Family
  • Done

• A lot of people think I'm a vegan. I'm not.

  

  Tao Lin
  • People
  • Think
  • Vegan

• Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Faith
  • Knowledge

• I know my heart, and have studied mankind; I am not made like any one I have been acquainted with, perhaps like no one in existence; if not better, I at least claim originality, and whether Nature did wisely in breaking the mould with which she formed me, can only be determined after having read this work.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Work
  • Heart
  • She

• You can't write about a friend, you can only write about a former friend.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Friend

• Movable type seemed magical to the monks who were illuminating manuscripts and copying texts. Certainly e-books seem magical to me.

  

  Paul Theroux

• Making sentences is what I do. I mean, the story will come as I write.

  

  Per Petterson

• You are never wrong when you have voted because you've acted in accordance with your conscience and your beliefs, and you've exercised your democratic right, which is, you know, perfectly legitimate in our democracies.

  

  Christine Lagarde

• All through life I've harbored anger rather than expressed it at the moment.

  

  Jessica Lange
  • Life

• A lot of what I write is very personal.

  

  Elif Batuman

• The biggest thing that I hope people take away when they listen to my music is that they feel that there is an outlet being presented that allows them to be more authentic and for them to be more honest in their own lives.

  

  Bishop Briggs
  • People
  • Music
  • Hope

• When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?

  

  Lisa Loeb
  • Why

• The voiceless and most defenseless ones are the animals, so most of my attention goes to them.

  

  Joanna Krupa
  • Attention

• I haven't read more than two pages, but my mother is a George Martin super fan.

  

  Kristian Nairn
  • Mother

• The way that Lucasfilm used ILM was George never restricted his thinking to things that he knew could be executed with the tools at the time. He would write what he thought would be cool and what he wanted from a storytelling standpoint with the assumption that, 'Well, they'll figure it out!'

  

  John Knoll
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Cool

• As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Want
  • Endure
  • Persevere

• The most amazing combinations can result if you shuffle the pack enough.

  

  Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Result
  • Combination
  • Shuffle

• We're very concerned with language and how language works. We're trying to engage people rather than dictate how they should be thinking.

  

  Neville Brody
  • Thinking
  • Language
  • Dictate