"So many young decorators are trying to reinvent the wheel, and the results are sometimes very dubious. They're striving to do things that have never been done before. Quite often it is done without authority, without knowledge, and without a background in taste. They need to be educated about the past, and they need a richer vocabulary."

-- Albert Hadley

#Past Quotes #Vocabulary Quotes #Design Quotes

“I like gambling on stuff that you don't know anything about. That's when it's exciting.”
“My father was a very funny man, and one of my strongest recollections is hearing him laugh. He didn't like people who had no sense of humour.”
“Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.”
“Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door.”

Source : Stevie Smith (1937). “A Good Time was Had by All”
“Obama's even keel sometimes comes across as aloof or even cold.”
“Sin we have explain'd away; Unluckily, the sinners stay.”

Source : William Allingham, Helen Paterson Allingham (1912). “Poems”
“I don't know how you can do it, if you don't recognition the media as a power center in America.”
“It is by metaphor that language grows.”

Source : Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.59, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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