"I've always felt that stylists such as you have in America are ashamed of a car and are preoccupied with making it look like something else, like a submarine or an airship...As an engineer, I revolt against this."

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Source : "Alec Issigonis Dies; Auto Designer, 81, Introduced the Mini" by Constance L. Hays, www.nytimes.com. 1988.

Alec Issigonis

#America Quotes #Car Quotes #Looks Quotes

“When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.”

Source : BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”
“Very few people look the part and are it too.”

Source : Don Herold (1925). “Bigger & better”
“The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.”
“I began acting at age eight, but if you don't stay on your game then people pass on you. Being on a show, it's a little easy to get comfortable, so I'm trying to get back on it. I'm taking some acting classes and watching movies, and I'm just trying to stay up with other actors.”
“We refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.”
“I'm a handsome man with a charming personality.”

Source : Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 4, 2014.
“First one gets works of art, then criticism of them, then criticism of the criticism, and, finally, a book on The Literary Situation , a book which tells you all about writers, critics, publishing, paperbacked books, the tendencies of the (literary) time, what sells and how much, what writers wear and drink and want, what their wives wear and drink and want, and so on.”
“Don't eat fried food, it angries up the blood.”

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