"Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods."

-- Genevieve Gorder

#Impact Quotes #People Quotes #Design Quotes

“People tell me that the countryside must always be stupid and backward, and I get angry, as if it were said that only townspeople had immortal souls, and that it was only in the city that the flame of divinity breathed into the first men had an unobscured glow.”

Source : George William Russell (1913). “Co-operation and Nationality: A Guide for Rural Reformers from this to the Next Generation”
“I always wanted to make a children's album because you have the freedom to explore so many wonderful topics and sounds.”
“Feather by feather the goose is plucked.”

Source : John Ray, John Belfour (1813). “A complete collection of English proverbs: also, the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages”, p.134
“...after all, who isn't a survivor from the wreck of childhood?”

Source : Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House”, p.212, Penguin UK
“I took pictures of the objects and artifacts that Patti [Smith] would show to her friends because I wanted to document them.”
“Who can be born black and not exult!”

Source : Mari Evans (2007). “Continuum: New and Selected Poems”
“You see, with [designing]weapons, it is like a woman who bears children. For months she carries her baby and thinks about it. A designer does much the same thing with a prototype. I felt like a mother - always proud. It is a special feeling, as if you were awarded with a special award. I shot with it a lot. I still do now. That is why I am hard of hearing.”
“It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.”

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