Will Burtin Quotes

Each typeface is a piece of history, like a chip in a mosaic that depicts the development of human communication. Each typeface is also a visual record of the person who created it - his skill as a designer, his philosophy as an artist, his feeling for... the details of each letter and the resulting impressions of an alphabet or a text line.

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• Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Always
  • Being
  • Apollo

• I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Goal

• I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Up
  • Children
  • Friends

• This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • Stop
  • Election
  • Taxes

• Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Life
  • Dreams
  • Short

• Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive only, which is to destroy - to destroy your chance of arising above yourself.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Evil
  • Spiritual
  • Chance

• My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Money
  • Dad
  • Often

• I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Bad
  • Think

• I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

  

  Jack London
  • Book
  • Purpose
  • Beauty

• If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them.

  

  Dan Glickman
  • World
  • Business
  • Pretty

• Our primary objective must be to prevent wars, and when we fail in this, we must protect and assist the innocent victims.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Innocent
  • Protect
  • Fail

• I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Way
  • Always
  • Born

• Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning.

  

  Karen Horney
  • May
  • Deception

• My middle finger won't go down, how do I wave?

  

  Eminem
  • Down
  • Middle
  • Wave

• O tell me, friends, while yet we part,And heart can yet be heard of heart,O tell me then, for what is itOur early plan of life we quit;From all our old intentions range,And why does all so wholly change?O tell me, friends, while yet we part!

  

  Arthur Hugh Clough
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Why

• Antiques exist as evidence of the cultural tracks we made in the past.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Past

• The American television punditocracy - the pollsters, political consultants and other talking heads who become as ubiquitous as air every election cycle - can be incestuous and herdlike.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • American
  • Political
  • Air

• The same regions of the brain light up when someone touches their smartphone as when they touch a family member or a pet.

  

  Matt Cohler
  • Up
  • Family
  • Light

• I eat meat, the rarer the better.

  

  Dominique Swain

• I try to not listen to all the girls I admire musically - like Nina Simone - just so I don't find myself imitating them, even if it's subconsciously.

  

  Lou Doillon

• To the world, I'm Bow Wow. When I leave here and I go to L.A., and I go to my daughter's house and I sit with her, I feel like Shad. I'm not Bow; I'm 'Daddy.' It's, like, the illest feeling in the world. I feel like I'm away from everything.

  

  Shad Gregory Moss
  • World
  • House
  • Feeling

• I weighed 25 stone, and I didn't stand nine feet tall, so the weight didn't sit well on me. As big as a house? No. I was as big as an estate.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • House
  • Me
  • Weight

• We two will lie i' the shadow of That living mystic tree Within whose secret growth the Dove Is sometimes felt to be, While every leaf that His plumes touch Saith His Name audibly.

  

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti
  • Growth
  • Tree
  • Shadow

• Each typeface is a piece of history, like a chip in a mosaic that depicts the development of human communication. Each typeface is also a visual record of the person who created it - his skill as a designer, his philosophy as an artist, his feeling for... the details of each letter and the resulting impressions of an alphabet or a text line.

  

  Will Burtin
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