Wim Crouwel Quotes

The meaning is in the content of the text and not in the typeface, and that is why we loved Helvetica very much.

Wim Crouwel

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• There is no way a spirit of resistance that has sunk so deep in the population can be repressed.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Deep
  • Spirit
  • Resistance

• With myself, how to pass time becomes sometimes the question - unavoidably, though it strikes me as a thing unspeakably sad in a life so short as ours.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Life
  • Time
  • Question

• I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• If Muslims curse the Christians, then the Christians will curse the Muslims. And people will curse Allah, and Allah will hold us responsible for that.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • People
  • Responsible
  • Allah

• There is a lot of Indian connect in 'Million Dollar Arm'. It is about two Indian boys, and we even shot quite a bit of the movie in India.

  

  Madhur Mittal
  • Movie
  • Two
  • India

• A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

  

  Dan Devine
  • Team
  • Said
  • Times

• In a way, 'WALL-E' had some of the same disturbing elements that 'Up' does.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Up
  • Way
  • Wall

• Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Up
  • Man
  • Never

• All developmental activities for the common man such as education, healthcare, shelter and food distribution should be handled by reputed private sector institutions. It should be a competitive market in order to prevent the formation of monopolies.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Man
  • Education
  • Food

• Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of being punished for his or her views? If so, then that society is a free society. If not, it is a fear society.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Society
  • Free
  • Fear

• To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning, when only to find it was not a beginning, but an end, an end of innocence - we apologise and we are sorry. To the mothers who lost the maternal right to love and care for their child - we apologise, and we are sorry.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Believe
  • Beginning
  • Right

• Hey. On my worst day, I'll train for two hours. You know what I'm saying? Like, I don't have hobbies. I don't have too many hobbies. I'm always working, I'm always training.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Training

• I've come of heart, baby, but now I'm coolI didn't make it surely, playin' by the rulesI've come of heart, baby, but now I'm fineI'm checkin' trouble, sure movin' down the lineI've come of heart, baby, but that's OK'Cause Trouble Man don't get in my way.

  

  Marvin Gaye
  • Heart
  • Baby

• Body and soul are not two different things, but only two different ways of perceiving the same thing. Similarly, physics and psychology are only different attempts to link our experiences together by way of systematic thought.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Soul
  • Body
  • Psychology

• Lo que dicen las palabras no dura. Duran las palabres. Porque las palabras son siempre las mismas y lo que dicen no es nunca lo mismo.

  

  Antonio Porchia
  • Son

• I have one chocolate Lab named Jasmine. I also had a rat named Sky.

  

  Jason Dolley
  • Sky
  • Chocolate

• I'm anxious about work, the future, friendships, past relationships... I'm just one of those people that, whatever I'm doing, it's a big worry.

  

  Conor McPherson
  • People
  • Work
  • Future

• When young people implode, we judge them rather than saying they need help.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet
  • People
  • Help
  • Judge

• Anyone who uses Helvetica knows nothing about typefaces.

  

  Wolfgang Weingart
  • Nothing
  • Anyone
  • Typefaces

• The autistic personality is an extreme variant of male intelligence.

  

  Hans Asperger
  • Autistic personality
  • Male intelligence

• Psychedelic experiences are beyond the reach of cultural manipulation, and discovering this and exploring it is somehow the frontier of maturity. Culture is a form of enforced infantilism. It's the last nursery, and most people never leave it.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Culture
  • Maturity
  • Manipulation

• I only know that I feel tired, antiquated; I feel as though I had been living a long, long time.

  

  Ivan Turgenev
  • Tired
  • I Feel
  • Long Time

• This is what happiness is, past the rubbish of its overuse as a word, past the cracked gloss of the letters that mean nothing when strung together. They mean something now, and I know what it’s like when you and someone else are right together. How simple it is, and how amazing.

  

  Elizabeth Scott
  • Together
  • Happiness
  • Letters

• The meaning is in the content of the text and not in the typeface, and that is why we loved Helvetica very much.

  

  Wim Crouwel
  • Typefaces
  • Helvetica