"A plant is only worth growing if it looks good when it is dead."

-- Piet Oudolf

#Looks Quotes #Growing Quotes #Plant Quotes

“There's no need to sharpen my pencils anymore. They're sharp enough. Even the dull ones will make a mark.”
“Trifling favors are readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed; but important ones are most rarely remembered.”
“There was always this sort of weird process in the development and pre-production, thinking, 'How do we get the studio tracks that Joy Division recorded that are so clean and pristine but sound rough and live and how do we get the live versions to actually sound clear enough so you can make out what they're saying?' That was sort of the frustration with Anton Corbijn and myself, figuring out how we make that work.”
“I still have my old Nintendo 64 that works. And I hook it up, and I still play the original Goldeneye. Im that geek. I have an NBA Jam arcade machine in my office at SNL.”
“Do you know what Bill Gates has to pull out of an old coat, to feel like I did with a $20 bill? First of all, the idea that Bill Gates has an old coat is preposterous. If he has an old coat, it's the coat Abe Lincoln was shot in and he wears it as a bathrobe - no underwear by the way. He lets his billionaire balls swing willy-nilly beneath the death cloak of the great emancipator. That's your 1%.”
“What am I thankful for? MY POLKA DOTS!!”
“Not all possibilities are open to us. The world is finite; our hopes spill over its rim.”
“The more facts you tell, the more you sell. An advertisement's chance for success invariably increases as the number of pertinent merchandise facts included in the advertisement increases.”

Source : "Why Short Advertising Copy Does NOT Sell More" by Ira Kalb, www.businessinsider.com. May 28, 2013.

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