"An object imbued with intent â€” it has power, it's treasure, we're drawn to it. An object devoid of intent â€” it's random, it's imitative, it repels us. It's like a piece of junk mail to be thrown away."

-- John Hockenberry

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“Consider frequently the connection of all things in the universe and their relation to one another. For things are somehow implicated with one another, and all in a way friendly to one another.”
“The God who loans you life sees your every move, hears each word you speak, knows your every thought. You are seen by God. Noticed. Known.”
“Tis best to build no castles in the air.”

Source : Fanny Burney, Stewart Cooke (2011). “The Court Journals and Letters of Frances Burney: Volume II: 1787”, p.293, Oxford University Press
“I was surrounded by sisters. My childhood was all women.”
“Forget the grand plan. Forget the master scheme. Forget control. That is the bleak but true basis of independent cinema. Inch by motherfuking inch we must, because we have no other choice.”
“I don’t think that anyone has really told (people) what design is. It doesn’t occur to most people that everything is designed--that every building and everything they touch in the world is designed. Even foods are designed now. So in the process of helping people understand this, making them more aware of the fact that the world around us is something that somebody has control of, perhaps they can feel some sense of control, too. I think that’s a nice ambition.”

Source : "In Remembrance Of Bill Moggridge, 1943-2012" by Linda Tischler, www.fastcodesign.com. September 10, 2012.
“If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragmentary.”

Source : Sarah Churchwell (2013). “Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby”, p.71, Hachette UK
“Being a villain is great, even though I've only gotten to do it a few times.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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