"Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste."

-- William Butler Yeats

#Thinking Quotes #Swag Quotes #Design Quotes

“This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.”
“Sometimes you've just got to let an umpire know that you're not satisfied with his decision. That they've missed the play in your opinion. Not that it's going to do you any good, but you've got to let them know.”
“My house had suddenly turned into a hospital ward.”
“It is an old trick. The playgoer who does not like dirty plays is denounced as a prude; the music-lover who resents cacophony is told he is a pedant; and in all these matters the final crushing blow administered to the man of discrimination is the ascription to him of a hidebound prejudice against things that are new because they are new.”

Source : Royal Cortissoz (1916). “Art and common sense”
“Enjoy the experience, don't just experience the experience”
“Let's say you're someone's phone, and you notice that your owner is drinking coffee at certain times of the day, just very subtly indicating where the local coffee shop is which happens to have paid, you know, whoever makes your phone at the right moment. I think we're in a future where frankly we are possibly facing little tiny bits of manipulation in all of our waking hours, if we don't have that already.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.”

Source : 1962 Speech at West Point military academy, 5 Dec. According to the New York Times, 23 Nov1969, Prime Minister Harold Wilson later countered,'Mr Acheson is a distinguished figure who has lost a State Department and not yet found himself a role'.
“I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes.”

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