Ellen Lupton Quotes

Are some free fonts a gift to humanity rather than a blight on typographic civilization?

Ellen Lupton

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• I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Believe
  • History
  • Accidents

• I've got bowlegs, so if I do a midcalf look, I look bandy.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Look
  • Got

• I'm the best Twitterer.

  

  Dan Carter
  • Best

• The rest of us are still trying to find ways to live in the world with spirit-ual values. Myself included. We've learned certain skills, we've learned to prevail somewhat, but we've not made it over the mountain.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • World
  • Live
  • Trying

• Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • Anything
  • Cause
  • Symptom

• I work out in a studio. Every day, regardless where I am, at least two hours. I need it. I can't cease it.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Work
  • Studio

• Don't compare me to Babe Ruth. God gave me the opportunity and the ability to be here at the right time, at the right moment, just like he gave Babe Ruth when he was playing. I just hope I can keep doing what I've been doing - keep taking care of business.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Time
  • God
  • Business

• Whether or not they exist, we're slaves to the gods.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• I don’t get angry, I don’t want to use harsh words. They are our colleagues and we have to work with them. But they also have to learn to work with us.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • Work
  • Words
  • Angry

• Among politicians and businessman, Pragmatism is the current term for 'To hell with our children.'

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Children

• The watchers below pulled in their breath all at once. The air felt suddenly shared. The man above was a word they seemed to know, though they had not heard it before.

  

  Colum McCann
  • Air

• We have much to learn by studying nature and taking the time to tease out its secrets.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Time
  • Nature

• My only qualifications to be an actor were that I'm daring, and I'm a quick learner. I've always learnt by watching what other people do. It's the same with my writing. I write what I know. Structurally, I write in a very undisciplined way.

  

  Colman Domingo
  • People
  • Writing

• When I see a room full of people pedaling away on stationary bikes, I fall into an existential spiral. It's confirmation that all we do as humans is pedal, pedal, pedal, and go nowhere. We're just specks of dust in the universe, riding 1970s stationary bicycles.

  

  Ali Liebegott
  • People
  • Fall
  • Universe

• I realized I was a girl playing with all of these great musicians, but race and gender never did cross my mind, really, until other people started talking about them. They weren't really an issue for me.

  

  Cynthia Robinson
  • People
  • Great
  • Mind

• I think Pixar's done an amazing job integrating art and science. They really get this idea that art and engineering work side by side.

  

  Joe Gebbia
  • Work
  • Done
  • Art

• People will always consider me a cartoon character, a bimbo. They will never give me credit.

  

  Jessica Hahn
  • People
  • Character

• I hate knowing where people go to the bathroom. You follow them going to pee, to eat - I hate everything when it comes to reality shows!

  

  Francois Nars
  • People
  • Reality
  • Hate

• The usefulest truths are the plainest.

  

  William Penn
  • Truth

• I was doing a tour of the 'Batman' live stage production, and I challenged the cast to join me to run. One time, we were running in Switzerland just before Christmas, and it was heavy snow. Another time, we were running down the Seine in Paris on Christmas Day, and we all had Santa hats on.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Time
  • Live
  • Running

• Sometimes the hurdles aren't really hurdles at all. They're welcome challenges, tests.

  

  Paul Walker

• My furniture, boxes, and turnings are simple, practical designs for everyday use. I love the grain and beauty of wood. Each piece of lumber is a work of art, after all, and I'd like to honor that gift and pass it on for someone else to appreciate.

  

  Steve Miller The Steve Miller Band
  • Work
  • Art
  • Beauty

• Are some free fonts a gift to humanity rather than a blight on typographic civilization?

  

  Ellen Lupton
  • Humanity
  • Gift
  • Civilization