Ellen Lupton Quotes

Graphic design is the spit and polish but not the shoe.

Ellen Lupton

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• My mom often tells me to get married, but she gets it now that I don't want to. Like any other mom, she is worried, but she also understands the demands of my profession. I am blessed to have a family like this.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Family
  • Mom
  • Married

• Plan ahead! Prepare dishes ahead of time if you can. Keep it simple. Most importantly, have fun and enjoy your guests.

  

  Alyssa Milano
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Simple

• No cowboys for Canada. Canada got Mounties instead - Dudley Do-Right, not John Wayne. It's a mind-set of "Here I come to save the day" versus "Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker.

  

  Sarah Vowell
  • Mind
  • Cowboy
  • Wayne

• It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Boast
  • Defeats
  • Reckon

• There is nothing that exists, that is not existing perfectly, which includes every thought we have, every word we speak, and every action we commit. Therefore, there is nothing wrong with me, with you, with them.

  

  Bryan Kest
  • Action
  • Word
  • Exists

• It is impossible to have a lively hope in another life, and yet be deeply immersed in the enjoyments of this.

  

  Francis Atterbury
  • Hope
  • Impossible
  • Enjoyments

• I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith in which I was born to ever use it as the basis of a political organization

  

  Wilfrid Laurier
  • Political
  • Respect
  • Organization

• To the valiant actions speak alone.

  

  Tobias Smollett

• I developed an interesting skill set in that I was able to create a network and create experiences and environment - I built this decadent playground for men. It might have been successful, but it wasn't important. It didn't have any true meaning.

  

  Molly Bloom
  • Interesting
  • Environment
  • Meaning

• If there are kids who want to follow in my footsteps, I'd say that my shoes are too big for them to fill! But their shoe size is just perfect.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Kids
  • Perfect
  • Shoes

• I'm very painful to deal with when I create a shoe.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Create
  • Painful
  • Shoe

• Someday, I'd like to create a fashionable dance shoe.

  

  Usher
  • Dance
  • Create
  • Shoe

• I've got the best shoe guy in the business.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • Business
  • Guy
  • Best

• Oh, what's this in my shoe? Red carpet insole. Everywhere I go, I'm walking on red carpet.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Walking
  • Red
  • Carpet

• It isn't the mountains that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Mountains
  • Shoe
  • Pebble

• The past is a pebble in my shoe.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Past
  • Shoe
  • Pebble

• I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.

  

  Wale
  • Myself
  • Sound
  • Talking

• As long as I have fashion memories, Schiaparelli has been there.

  

  Marco Zanini
  • Long
  • Fashion
  • Memories

• Called to the throne of my fathers, I have taken over the government, looking to the King of all kings, and have vowed to God, following the example of my father, to be a righteous and gentle prince, to foster piety and the fear of God, to maintain peace, to further the welfare of the country, to be a help to the poor and oppressed, and to be to the righteous man a true protector.

  

  Wilhelm II
  • God
  • Country
  • True

• The contrast of the world that we live in and the world that is here in Aspen and the world inhabited by women who have no resources, little or no, very few resources - huge disparity.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • World
  • Resources
  • Disparity

• The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.

  

  Tony Snow
  • Art
  • Sick
  • Well

• Graphic design is the spit and polish but not the shoe.

  

  Ellen Lupton
  • Shoe
  • Polish
  • Graphic Design