Ettore Sottsass Quotes

My furniture is an exercise in architecture or architectural mood.

Ettore Sottsass

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• I don't eat animals. I rescue strays and take injured pigeons to the wildlife rehab. I carry spiders and wasps outside in a cup covered with a 3x5 card. It would only follow that I'd take pause when contemplating the abrupt and apparently brutal ending of a tiny human being's life, or even a potential human being's life.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
  • Potential
  • Ending

• I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.

  

  Vernon Jordan
  • Leadership
  • Rockefeller Plaza

• It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Way
  • Play
  • Dreams

• There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • May
  • Distance

• As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Rest
  • California
  • Nation

• Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Believe
  • Influence
  • Legends

• I don't like to look typical.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Like
  • Look
  • Typical

• There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them.

  

  Hale White
  • Life
  • Art
  • Lies

• The audiences love to see me fight on screen.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Fight
  • See
  • Screen

• The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Truth
  • Simple
  • Never

• When you're 18, 19, you think you know everything, but you have no clue about anything.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Think
  • You
  • Know

• The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him.

  

  Garrett Fort
  • People
  • Believe
  • Strength

• New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Work
  • Myself
  • New York

• I do believe, whenever this is all said and done, we won't talk about Mickey Gall, the guy that beat CM Punk; we'll just talk about Mickey Gall, the guy who is a top 10 fighter, a good welterweight or maybe a great welterweight.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Good
  • Great
  • Believe

• As far as the timing, well, I'd write that off to luck as much as anything - I happened to be out looking for a development deal, and Disney happened to think my team and I might be the right people to make a Mickey Mouse game.

  

  Warren Spector
  • People
  • Game
  • Team

• I always wanted to be wealthy. I did.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Always
  • Wealthy
  • Did

• Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Work
  • Character
  • Science

• I think there's so much that is out of our control as actors, and it's just really hard to market yourself in such a huge industry.

  

  Andrew Keenan-Bolger
  • Control

• To some degree, to control light, I have to have a way to form it, so I use form almost like the stretcher bar of a canvas.

  

  James Turrell
  • Light
  • Control
  • Canvas

• I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there's nothing quite like country dark, which was really black. And as a child, your imagination runs wild.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Country
  • Black
  • Dark

• Innate must flow fully, freely, naturally; to, through, and into the educated brain to produce what education calls greatness.

  

  B. J. Palmer
  • Education
  • Brain
  • Greatness

• My furniture is an exercise in architecture or architectural mood.

  

  Ettore Sottsass
  • Exercise
  • Architecture
  • Mood