Gae Aulenti Quotes

#1. The tea, once it arrived, had its customary effect - engendering comfort and loosening the tongue. That's tea for you, thought Sophronia, the great social lubricant.

Gail Carriger

#2. Light is impressionism.

Gae Aulenti

#3. I aim to create furniture that appears in a room as buildings on a skyline and reminds the viewer of the interaction between objects of design and architectural space.

Gae Aulenti

#4. To impress others we must be earnest; to amuse them, it is only necessary to be kindly and fanciful.

Henry Theodore Tuckerman

#5. Every day I pray. I yield myself to God and the tensions and anxieties go out of me and peace and power come in.

Dale Carnegie

#6. Woe is Merit, the immortal vampire with the never-gray hair and long legs and hot blond boyfriend.

Chloe Neill

#7. It's a thin line between paper and hate,
Friends and snakes, nine millis and thirty-eights,
Hell or the pearly gates ... I was destined to come,
Predicted, blame God, He blew breath in my lungs.

Nas

#8. The conscious principle in this design has been to achieve forms that could create experiences, and that could at the same time welcome everyone's experiences with the serenity of an effortless development.

Gae Aulenti

#9. Sometimes I get nice letters from people who know they're due to meet him (Death) soon, and hope I've got him right.
Those are the kind of letters that cause me to stare at the wall for some time.

Terry Pratchett

#10. My advice to whoever asks me how to make a home is to not have anything, just a few shelves for books, some pillows to sit on. And then, to take a stand against the ephemeral, against passing trends ... and to return to lasting values.

Gae Aulenti

#11. When you're criticized for something, it's best to wait two or three years and see.

Gae Aulenti

#12. He smiled. Hesitant at first, then a blazing grin broke through that made my heart stop. I recovered and grinned back and went to throw my arms around his neck, then stopped, blushing. Before I could pull back, he caught my elbows and put my arms around his neck and pulled me into a hug.

Kelley Armstrong