"It may sound affected - but it is the act of creation itself, and it is equally exhilarating whether one is working on a teaspoon or a national bank."

-- Arne Jacobsen

#Sound Quotes #May Quotes #Creation Quotes

“Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.”
“I want to teach my daughter the importance of exercising and eating healthy as she grows up.”

Source : "Ellen Pompeo: No Junk Food for Stella!" by Paul Chi, celebritybabies.people.com. May 6, 2010.
“I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.”

Source : 1992 In Time Out,19 Aug.
“In L.A., I called every scrap yard and surplus place that was listed, about 50 or 60 places, and only at one of them did the owner get intrigued and let me go around the yard to find stuff. Because the insurance regulations are such that you can't go into the places anymore.”
“Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven.”
“If this is how science operates, by silencing those who express opposing views rather than by debating with them, then science is dead and we are in a new era of the Inquisition.”
“Structure is the most important component in a successful planting; colour is important too but it is a secondary consideration.”
“Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.”

Source : "Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life". Book by Louis Kronenberger, 1954.

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