Charles Eames Quotes

Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?

Charles Eames

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• Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • College
  • Painting
  • Arts

• I'm interested in morality and mortality, and 'Deadpool' kind of has all of these themes.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Kind
  • Morality
  • Mortality

• A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • More
  • Dinner

• I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Think
  • Thoughts
  • Head

• My uncles and other relatives are against encouraging girls in every aspect, and that includes sports. I hardly interact with them. My parents are more open. They back me all the way.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Sports

• My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Work
  • Inspiration
  • Musicians

• Sri Lanka is an island off the coast of India. There's two ethnicities there; one the Sinhalese, which is the majority and the government, and the minority, who are the Tamils. That's where I'm from. And my lifetime sort of began there; I spent 10 years, and I was there during when the war started and fled as a refugee to England.

  

  M.I.A.
  • War
  • Government
  • Island

• I get a lot of letters that say, 'I'm a normal, down-to-earth girl. I love to cook, and I love sports.' What I also get are letters from a whole bunch of moms saying, 'My daughter is awesome,' and, 'My daughter is a great daughter.'

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Girl
  • Sports
  • Awesome

• I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.

  

  Ovid
  • Achievement
  • Worth
  • Task

• Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • For Him
  • Succeed
  • Love Is

• Normally, the law of nature is such that one who rises falls, and one who rises quickly falls as quickly. I don't know how the law of nature will work as far as Modi is concerned. But some time or the other, all bubbles burst. This bubble will also burst.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Time
  • Work
  • Nature

• I think if we're going to have to landfill trash, and I think we basically have to, we might as well get the upside for it and dedicate that upside to improving the environment in so many different ways.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Different
  • Think
  • Environment

• It feels presumptuous to think of writing for adults.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Feels

• Raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do, but it's a popular thing to do as well.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Popular
  • Right
  • Wage

• Certainly Nancy Reagan had an extraordinary effect on her husband. I'm truly not sure that, say, Laura Bush had that much effect on the Bush administration. She certainly, you know, seems to be a nice person who I think the public likes. But I can't really put my finger on any huge impact she's had.

  

  Gail Collins
  • She
  • Think
  • Nice

• When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God

• ''Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become of us if they were?''

  

  C. S. Lewis

• They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom For trying to change the system from within I'm coming now, I'm coming to reward them First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin.

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • Trying

• I am very familiar with Hungary, because I grew up in Romania, which borders it.

  

  Bela Karolyi
  • Up

• You could do with a day's work, I'd say.

  

  Enda Kenny
  • Work

• We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Up
  • Die
  • Car

• Sun-girt City, thou hast been Ocean's child, and then his queen; Now is come a darker day, And thou soon must be his prey.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • City
  • Sun
  • Ocean

• Traditional sales and marketing involves increasing market shares, which means selling as much of your product as you can to as many customers as possible. One-to-one marketing involves driving for a share of customer, which means ensuring that each individual customer who buys your product buys more product, buys only your brand, and is happy using your product instead of another to solve his problem. The true, current value of any one customer is a function of the customer's future purchases, across all the product lines, brands, and services offered by you.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Problem
  • Mean
  • Driving

• Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?

  

  Charles Eames