Neville Brody Quotes

Digital design is like painting, except the paint never dries.

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• There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • World
  • Man
  • Old Man

• I always say that I'm at my best when there's no example of what the character is supposed to be. I thrive when there's not much and I have to create it.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Character
  • Best
  • Thrive

• We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Tree
  • Born

• Whether it's as the hero of an adventure story, as teacher and friend, as icon on watch, shirt or hat - everyone knows Mickey Mouse.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Friend
  • Teacher
  • Hero

• Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Fashion
  • Unique
  • Leveler

• The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Life
  • Problem
  • Lose

• A true champion can adapt to anything.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • True
  • Champion
  • Adapt

• I always love that phrase, 'Oh, this is a good idea, but it's execution dependent.' As if anything in life is not execution dependent. Breathing is execution-dependent.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Life
  • Good
  • Idea

• Certain aspects of my personality are always going to come out on-screen. I guess that's just me – if they say I'm quirky, I'm quirky. It's better than being boring.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Personality
  • Better
  • Boring

• Words change over time. 'Condescending,' for instance, was once a good thing to be. It meant that a person was willing to interact politely with people of lower social ranks. In Jane Austen's world, a lady praised for her condescension was receiving a sincere compliment.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• Israel was founded as a refuge for the Jewish people, but today it isn't a safe place. It is safer to be Jew in New York.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • People
  • Today
  • New York

• The fight scenes are pretty easy and come pretty naturally for me, to be honest.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Pretty
  • Fight
  • Honest

• Putin is slouching…looking like that bored schoolboy in the back of the classroom.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Bored

• 'They would say,' he answered, 'that you do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but have lost love because you never attempted obedience.'

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Lost

• The captain of the Hampshire grenadiers...has not been useless to the historian of the Roman Empire.

  

  Edward Gibbon

• There are unfortunately not a few good professional physicists who still think about the world as if space and time had an absolute meaning.

  

  Lee Smolin
  • Time
  • World
  • Good

• Everything in moderation, with occasional excess - Ghost Rider (2002)

  

  Neil Peart Rush

• When we are all together, we will have a future that is far greater than whatever we could do separate from one another.

  

  Betsy Hodges
  • Together
  • Future

• By the time I came down from Yale, I was already more radicalized and had begun to read New Masses.

  

  Albert Maltz
  • Time

• I was watching something the other day which started out with five guys walking towards you and one woman, and there you go-it's still being dominated by the male society.

  

  Joan Severance
  • Society
  • Walking

• Courageous men never lose the zest for living even though their life situation is zestless; cowardly men, overwhelmed by the uncertainties of life, lose the will to live. We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Men
  • Fear
  • Life Situation

• In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • History
  • Alone
  • Design

• There is a saying in entrepreneurship that your early employees are all commandos. Commandos are people who can do almost everything well: emails, strategy, code, design.

  

  Adeo Ressi
  • People
  • Design

• Digital design is like painting, except the paint never dries.

  

  Neville Brody
  • Design
  • Painting
  • Dries