Ettore Sottsass Quotes

I make no special difference between architecture and design, they are two different stages of invention.

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• The thing that I'm most passionate about, I'm writing a book called 'Jab Jab Jab Jab Jab Right Hook,' and it really focuses on how to story-tell in a noisy, ADD world.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • World
  • Writing
  • Book

• I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.

  

  Imelda May
  • Style
  • Colour
  • Grey

• When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• I've always been interested in family secrets and what happens behind closed doors. I find that fascinating and creepy - that's why I read: because I want to know other people's secrets.

  

  Ottessa Moshfegh
  • People
  • Family
  • Why

• In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Important
  • Small
  • Choose

• It's a very hard industry, and it's very cold. It's loving for when you have a hit record, but when you don't have anything going on, there's really not much support.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Support
  • Cold
  • Loving

• There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I can't be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Think
  • Serious
  • Impression

• I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.

  

  Gautam Singhania
  • Technology
  • Challenge
  • Serious

• You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Want
  • You
  • Gone

• Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Together
  • Lost
  • Serious

• I am careful about fiction. A novel is not a tract or an essay. If I want to write about land reforms, or Hindu-Muslim relations, or position of women, I can do it as it affects my characters as in 'A Suitable Boy.' I could only write about issues specifically through essays. But I'll do that only if I have something worthwhile to say.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Fiction
  • Novel
  • Careful

• I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Think
  • Past
  • Seeing

• Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.

  

  B. B. King
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Family

• Islam is about finding your own space.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Space
  • Islam
  • Finding

• Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • War
  • Constitution
  • Congress

• The clergy earns its living from religion. If your interests are secured through religion, then you will defend your interests first, and religion will become secondary.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • You
  • Religion
  • Living

• I was actually born in L.A. My sisters and I were playing in a parking lot, and my dad was like, 'Nah, nah, nah. Let's go give 'em some grass.'

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Dad
  • Born
  • Grass

• Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Nature
  • Thought
  • Expression

• Listen to advice from people who have been there and done that. It is so hard to believe that when you are young, but parents, mentors, teachers, they can all be so valuable when it comes to advice.

  

  Lauren Conrad
  • People
  • Believe
  • Done

• Cyberspace can't compensate for real space. We benefit from chatting to people face to face.

  

  Jonathan Sacks
  • People
  • Real
  • Space

• I myself am part of the youth movement. However, after a long discussion, it appears that many of the youth demands and needs, like access to education, jobs, and equitable growth, have been addressed under different goals and targets and youth enjoy the benefits of everything else in the report.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Different
  • Long
  • Education

• We ought not to be embarrassed of appreciating the truth and of obtaining it wherever it comes from, even if it comes from races distant and nations different from us. Nothing should be dearer to the seeker of truth than the truth itself, and there is no deterioration of the truth, nor belittling either of one who speaks it or conveys it

  

  Al-Kindi
  • Different
  • Truth
  • Wisdom

• In that instant when I had seen... the Star Maker, I had glimpsed, in the very eye of that splendor, strange vistas of being; as though in the depths of the hypercosmical past and the hypercosmical future also, yet coexistent in eternity, lay cosmos beyond cosmos.

  

  Olaf Stapledon
  • Future
  • Past
  • Star

• I make no special difference between architecture and design, they are two different stages of invention.

  

  Ettore Sottsass
  • Different
  • Design
  • Architecture