Alec Issigonis Quotes

#1. Red-hot songs were born on the black streets of Baltimore, where I delivered five-gallon cans of kerosene and ten-pound bags of coal.

Jerry Leiber

#2. I feel very, very proud that so many people have copied me.

Alec Issigonis

#3. The rain is sharp today, as you shock me sane.

Tori Amos

#4. Then all this became history. Your hand found mine. Life rushed to my fingers like a blood clot. Oh, my carpenter, the fingers are rebuilt. They dance with yours.

Anne Sexton

#5. A camel looks like a horse that was planned by a committee.

Alec Issigonis

#6. I've always felt that stylists such as you have in America are ashamed of a car and are preoccupied with making it look like something else, like a submarine or an airship ... As an engineer, I revolt against this.

Alec Issigonis

#7. Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Khalil Gibran

#8. I like pop music. I also like the sound of a dying refrigerator. I can listen to that for an hour and a half if I'm in the mood.

Kyp Malone

#9. Degree lets you to the chair of interview, but it cannot provide you job

Pawan Mehra

#10. Spring is the fresh green of young corn and the pink blush of blossoms. Autumn contrasts the yellowed foilage with violet hues. Winter is the white of snow against its black forms ... Summer is the contrast of blues and the golden bronze of the corn.

Vincent Van Gogh

#11. Time makes things tolerable. Time gives you perspective on events that shake your world to the core. Time allows you to move forward. But time doesn't change the pain that sits in your gut.

R.L. Griffin

#12. Her eyes are different. Wary, guarded, tinged with that human emotion I despise the most: regret.

Karen Marie Moning

#13. It is much easier to drive without having an accident.

Alec Issigonis

#14. There is an argument for believing that the entire process of writing a piece of fiction is simply a thinly-controlled and highly-internalised nervous breakdown designed, with a bit of luck, to produce something worthwhile at the end.

David Hewson

#15. When Jackson used that particular tone of voice, men died, pure and simple.

Christine Feehan

#16. The public don't know what they want; it's my job to tell them.

Alec Issigonis

#17. An expert is someone who tells you why you can't do something.

Alec Issigonis

#18. My doodles and sketches are not the work of an academic engineer. They represent many years of design study in attempts to produce the best value for money in the field of small car design.

Alec Issigonis

#19. How certain human beings are able to create works of art is a mystery, and why they should wish to do so, at a great cost to themselves usually, is another mystery. Works are not created by one's life; every life is rich in material.

Elizabeth Hardwick

#20. You carry your snare everywhere and spread your nets in all places. You allege that you never invited others to sin. You did not indeed, by your words, but you have done so by your dress and your deportment.

Saint John Chrysostom

#21. A camel is a horse designed by committee.

Alec Issigonis