Charles Eames Quotes

Designers should only innovate as a last resort.

Charles Eames

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• Suzhou is an ancient city full of old gardens that are very famous in China. It is very beautiful. Plus, I met my boyfriend there!

  

  Fei Fei Sun
  • Beautiful
  • City
  • Famous

• We've been probably to some degree too successful.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Successful
  • Degree
  • Some

• I want to be my own person.

  

  Paris Jackson
  • Want
  • Own
  • My Own

• Literature is memory written down. All literature is memory.

  

  Wayne Grady
  • Literature
  • Memory
  • Down

• My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.

  

  Wendi Deng Murdoch
  • Great
  • Write
  • Grandmother

• I was very young during 'Chachi 420' and don't remember much now.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Remember
  • Young
  • Now

• All our own present experiences are primordial. What could be more primordial than experience itself?

  

  Edith Stein
  • Experience
  • Present
  • More

• The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Army
  • Scientists
  • Skilled

• Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Judge

• I like Lady Gaga because I like that she pushes the envelope.

  

  Pat Benatar
  • She
  • Like
  • Lady

• We live in a technical society.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Live
  • Society
  • Technical

• The most important thing is to stay positive.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Important
  • Positive
  • Stay

• My most famous show is the 'Kitchen Show.' More famous than any gallery show or museum show I curated.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Famous
  • Kitchen
  • Museum

• As a Southerner, I love obstacles for my characters.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Characters
  • Obstacles
  • Southerner

• Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Reading
  • Road
  • Ignorance

• It is both humiliating and humbling to discover that a single generation after the events that constructed me as a public personality, I am remembered as a hairdo.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Single
  • Personality

• Grant us the single heart once more That mocks no sacred thing, The Sword of Truth our fathers wore When Thou wast Lord and King. Let darkness unto darkness tell Our deep unspoken prayer; For, while our souls in darkness dwell, We know that Thou art there.

  

  Alfred Noyes
  • Heart
  • Art
  • Truth

• Every day I remind myself of all that I have been given. … With singing, you never know when you are going to lose the voice, and that makes you appreciate the time that you have when you are still singing well. I am always thanking God for another season, another month, another performance.

  

  Luciano Pavarotti
  • Time
  • God
  • Singing

• I have already spoken to three US Presidents. They come and go, but politics stay the same at all times. Do you know why? Because of the powerful bureaucracy. When a person is elected, they may have some ideas. Then people with briefcases arrive, well dressed, wearing dark suits, just like mine, except for the red tie, since they wear black or dark blue ones. These people start explaining how things are done. And instantly, everything changes. This is what happens with every administration.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • People
  • Black
  • Powerful

• All is well ended if this suit be won. That you express content; which we will pay, With strife to please you, day exceeding day.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Pay
  • Please
  • Suits

• Motor racing is like one big family, ultimately, and when you come back to it, that's really what it feels like.

  

  Mario Andretti
  • Family

• Fashion's a huge part of my life, but I don't necessarily feel comfortable always talking about clothes on my personal social media.

  

  Alexa Chung
  • Life
  • Fashion

• Designers should only innovate as a last resort.

  

  Charles Eames