"I aim to create furniture that appears in a room as buildings on a skyline and reminds the viewer of the interaction between objects of design and architectural space."

-- Gae Aulenti

#Space Quotes #Design Quotes #Skylines Quotes

“I know their game. First, the traders and the missionaries: then the ambassadors: then the cannon. It's better to go straight to the cannon.”

Source : Quoted in Basil Davidson, Africa in Modern History: The Search for a New Society (1978)
“Today 23 years ago dear Grandmama died. I wonder what she would have thought of a Labour Government.”

Source : 1924 Of Queen Victoria. Diary entry, 22 Jan, on having invited Ramsay Macdonald to form the first Labour administration.
“I'm afraid of the dark,and suspicious of the light.”
“I cannot personally imagine any U.S. president normalizing relations with him [Fidel Castro], as opposed to his brother, but I may prove wrong on this score.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“If I could have banned them all...I would have!”
“I was a teenager, we were pretty much fully indoctrinated, thanks to sexual scare tactics. I remember so many public-health commercials with a B-actor in a fake alley background warning us to use protection or telling us the only real safe choice was abstinence. We were highly frightened of sex from day one. There was no free-swinging '90s.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart; We may live without friends; we may live without books; But civilized man cannot live without cooks. . . . He may live without books,-what is knowledge but grieving? He may live without hope,-what is hope but deceiving? He may live without love,-what is passion but pining? But where is the man that can live without dining?”

Source : 'Lucile' (1860) pt. 1, canto 2, sect. 24
“Lord knows what incommunicable small terrors infants go through, unknown to all. We disregard them, we say they forget, because they have not the words to make us remember. ... By the time they learn to speak they have forgotten the details of their complaints, and so we never know. They forget so quickly, we say, because we cannot contemplate the fact that they never forget.”

Source : The Millstone (1965)

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