"The essence of interior design will always be about people and how they live."

-- Albert Hadley

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“The goddess Artemis had a twin brother, Apollo, the many-faceted god of the Sun. He was her male counterpart: his domain was the city, hers the wilderness; his was the sun, hers the moon; his the domesticated flocks, hers the wild, untamed animals; he was the god of music, she was the inspiration for round dances on the mountains.”
“In thermodynamics as well as in other branches of molecular physics , the laws of phenomena have to a certain extent been anticipated, and their investigation facilitated, by the aid of hypotheses as to occult molecular structures and motions with which such phenomena are assumed to be connected. The hypothesis which has answered that purpose in the case of thermodynamics, is called that of "molecular vortices," or otherwise, the "centrifugal theory of elasticity.”

Source : William John Macquorn Rankine (1869). “A Manual of the Steam Engine and Other Prime Movers by William John Macquorn Rankine”, p.32
“Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.”
“My high salary for one season was forty-six thousand dollars and a Cadillac.”
“Even more than this, however, the sick - like lepers - were often reviled because people believed that they had brought their torments upon themselves.”
“Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.”
“The underlying attraction of the movement of water and sand is biological. If we look more deeply we can see it as the basis of an abstract idea linking ourselves with the limitless mechanics of the universe.”

Source : Geoffrey Jellicoe (1993). “Geoffrey Jellicoe: the studies of a landscape designer over 80 years”, Antique Collectors Club Ltd
“I've never declined to do an interview.”

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