"I'm obviously a typeomaniac, which is an incurable if not mortal disease. I can't explain it. I just love, I just like looking at type. I just get a total kick out of it: they are my friends. Other people look at bottles of wine or whatever, or, you know, girls' bottoms. I get kicks out of looking at type. It's a little worrying, I admit, but it's a very nerdish thing to do."

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Source : "Helvetica". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2007.

Erik Spiekermann

#Girl Quotes #Wine Quotes #People Quotes

“The world's pretty trippy. I just like to travel around and see what's out there.”
“I've found that if you're not responsive to e-mail, it trains people to leave you alone.”

Source : "David Karp, the Nonconformist Who Built Tumblr" by Liz Welch, www.inc.com.
“A pair of Blahniks and a girl can vanquish anything”
“One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.”

Source : Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) (2007). “Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism”, p.110, Chicago Review Press
“Travelers describe a tree in the island of Java whose pestiferous exhalations blight every tiny blade of grass within the compass of its shade. So it is with despotism.”

Source : Giovanni Ruffini (1857). “Doctor Antonio: a tale of Italy”, p.295
“Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory... and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles.”
“I am Jewish and proud of this culturally and ethnically - the ways in which I was born this way and am happy with whom I am.”
“Often, when you see yourself on the screen, you feel like a sweater that's been put through the washing machine. You have the impression of having done something full and luminous, and suddenly, when you see it on the screen, it's turned back into a tiny little thing.”

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

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