"These airplanes we have today are no more than a perfection of a child's toy made of paper."

“When you've just done it, you're not sure. But when you've sat with it for a couple of hours and you don't want to do anything more to it, that's a great feeling. It can stand on its own two feet.”

“The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.”

“One cannot kick against geography!”

Source : "The victory of Venizelos : a study of Greek politics, 1910-1918" by V. J. Seligman, (p. 31), 1920.

“Design is defined by light and shade, and appropriate lighting is enormously important.”

“Once you realise that heroes die, everything becomes that much more terrifying.”

Source : Interview with Ed Cumming, www.telegraph.co.uk. April 10, 2012.

“In Africa today, we recognise that trade and investment, and not aid, are pillars of development.”

“I love when people become obsessed with Downton.”

Source : "Jessica Brown Findlay's Sybil Liberties". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 12, 2012.

“Objectivity is the subject subjugating the object. That is how you assert yourself. You make yourself the active voice and the object is the passive no-voice.”