Eletin Quotes

#1. Form must never trump function. Some objects are made to look so smooth, you don't know where to pick them up or how to turn them on. If I'm designing a garlic press or cheese grater, I need my hand to fit comfortably on it. I like to know, instinctively, how to use it.

Michael Graves

#2. Challenges that tax our faith are usually opportunities to stretch and strengthen our faith by finding out if we really believe the Lord will help us.

Sheri Dew

#3. One of the questions I face when working on a book about a historical event is whether I should visit the actual place that I'm writing about. No matter how scrupulously maintained a historic house or battlefield may be, it is nothing like it was in the long-ago past.

Nathaniel Philbrick

#4. How is it possible, as you get to know someone better, to realize how good his past is at not letting you find out anything more about him?

Angelos Michalopoulos

#5. If we don't tell our own stories, no one else will.

Mira Nair

#6. I suffer because my interactions with others do not meet the expectations I did not know I had.

James Patrick McDonald

#7. The good painter must paint two things: a person and the essence of his soul.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#8. When hiring, mix Harvard Nerds with Chicago Improvisers and stir.

Tina Fey

#9. Informatics is the field of medicine that concerns itself with "the interactions among and between humans and information tools and systems." In 2013, it became an official specialty, like cardiology or obstetrics, with its own board certification.

Robert Wachter

#10. It's tempting to just write a comic called 'Everyone Mail Randall Munroe Twenty Bucks' - maybe it would work, and I could just close down the 'xkcd' store and sit on a beach and draw pictures and make snarky Reddit posts for the rest of my life.

Randall Munroe

#11. O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise thereof spends all his might To make me tongue-tied speaking of your fame.

William Shakespeare

#12. You made me feel the need to be a better person. You, Synthia, you made me want to be a better man.

Amelia Hutchins

#13. We held each other the entire night, no words spoken but the still, silent night uttered so much.

Fisher Amelie

#14. The first flower that blossomed on this earth was an invitation to an unborn song.

Rabindranath Tagore