Charles Eames Quotes

The details are not the details. They make the design.

Charles Eames

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• I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Never
  • Really
  • Stopped

• I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Comedy

• It's easy to show off if you are making plays all the time. But it's not me.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Time
  • Me
  • Easy

• They say that gardens look better when they are created by loving gardeners rather than by landscapers, because the garden is more tended to and cared for. The same thing goes for cooking. I only cook for people I love.

  

  Ina Garten
  • People
  • Better
  • Garden

• Every relationship comes with a shelf life; that duration could be a minute or even a lifetime. If, for whatever reasons, a relationship cannot last a lifetime, contrary to what the two people imagined, then both the individuals have to be communicative and have to understand and accept the reality.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • People
  • Life
  • Reality

• The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Poverty
  • Program
  • Eliminate

• Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Men
  • Long
  • Wonder

• I'm not an economist; I'm a hacker who has spent his career exploring and repairing large networks.

  

  Dan Kaminsky
  • Career
  • Exploring
  • Hacker

• Think on your toes, use what's around you, and come up with something organic and fun.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Think

• I like Sam Smith and Taylor Swift. I love pop music, but I also like Sam Smith's slow songs. That would be more to dance to. I think dancers like different genres of music, compared to just a regular person.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Music
  • Dance
  • Person

• I'm not into the gym. I prefer dancing or tennis.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Tennis
  • Gym
  • Dancing

• As you do on any cable series, if they introduce you as the villain, then you better start working towards making him a really good guy, or if they introduce you as a really good guy, then you better start working towards being the villain. Your character has to go somewhere, or else they become very uninteresting.

  

  Zach McGowan
  • Good
  • Character
  • Guy

• That a man built the biggest church in the world is not an issue, not something to be excited about. The people of Satan also have money to build a big place and worship him.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • People
  • World
  • Money

• What I love best in life is new starts.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Life
  • Best
  • New

• 'Kramer vs. Kramer' is one of my favorite films, where you have a story that really juxtaposes a lot of ideas that we have about family and about parenting.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Family
  • Ideas
  • Parenting

• My father was a milkman. So, I delivered milk.

  

  Karl Malden
  • Father
  • Milk
  • Delivered

• I remember playing on pretty much an all-minority youth team and going to some of the tournaments north of Cincinnati and not being able to stay with host families where all the other teams were staying with host families.

  

  Barry Larkin
  • Remember
  • Pretty
  • Team

• My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Great
  • Sex

• I don't want people to think that someone gives me something to wear, and I'll put it on.

  

  Rita Ora
  • People

• For some reason, the military seems more afraid of gay people than they are against terrorists, but they're very brave with the terrorists... If the terrorists ever got a hold of this information, they'd get a platoon of lesbians to chase us out of Baghdad.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • Military
  • Gay

• North Korea is the errant teenage child, aren't they? Or toddler - they're holding their breath until they get their way.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Way
  • Child
  • Breath

• Entrepreneurship isn't for everyone, and not everyone is going to be an entrepreneur, but women who turn to business, turn to economics, because there are people depending on them, I think that their creativity, their resilience, their spirit, embody what's best about entrepreneurship.

  

  Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
  • People
  • Women
  • Business

• The details are not the details. They make the design.

  

  Charles Eames
  • Design