I aim to create furniture that appears in a room as buildings on a skyline and reminds the viewer of the interaction… — Gae Aulenti Copy Share Image
I think the Harry books are actually very moral, but some people just object to witchcraft being mentioned in a children's book. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
What do we mean by the defeat of the enemy? Simply the destruction of his forces, whether by death, injury, or any… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Look up at the miracle of the falling snow,—the air a dizzy maze of whirling, eddying flakes, noiselessly transforming the world, the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The objects that are of moderate energy, like our sun or most of the stars that we see in the night sky… — Claude Nicollier Copy Share Image
The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness; the darkness and crookedness is our own. The wisdom of God created understanding,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Myths are public dreams; dreams are private myths. By finding your own dream and following it through, it will lead you to… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
But, say you, surely there is nothing easier than for me to imagine trees, for instance, in a park [. . .]… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
At concerts, for me, the orchestra was like a painter. It flooded me with all the colours of the rainbow. If the… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
It therefore should be possible for even the photographer - just as for the creative poet or painter - to use the… — Clarence John Laughlin Copy Share Image
Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new… — Sergei Eisenstein Copy Share Image
I always choose strong, direct backlighting that creates patterns of intricate abstract shadows. These shadows become strong design elements that lie across… — William C. Wright Copy Share Image
The more that man is able to distinguish himself from the rest of creation, the more he becomes conscious of himself as… — Emil Brunner Copy Share Image
Household objects lost meaning. A bedside clock became a hunk of molded plastic, telling something called time, in a world marking it's… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Inspiration is that state in which mind and heart are connected. When you feel inspired you find yourself thrust into a world… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Minimize the user's memory load by making objects, actions, and options visible. The user should not have to remember information from one… — Jakob Nielsen Copy Share Image
“The word 'God' is used in most cases as by no means a term of science or exact knowledge, but a term… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Perfect concordance among reformers is not to be expected; and men who are honestly struggling towards the light cannot hope to attain… — Thomas George Bonney Copy Share Image
I do not suffer; I cannot suffer because I am not an object. Of course there is suffering. But do you realize… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
The object of every free government is the public good, and all lesser interests yield to it. That of every tyrannical government,… — Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger Copy Share Image
The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Production for sale in a market in which the object is to realize the maximum profit is the essential feature of a… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
We don’t go further than what Marx called the exchange value of the actual object - we don’t think about the relations… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
To discover the true principles of morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods. They need but common… — Jean Meslier Copy Share Image