Jessica Helfand Quotes

#1. In A Life In Books, author and graphic design visionary Warren Lehrer crafts a vivid kaleidoscopic odyssey that frames one man's life through not one, but one hundred different books - and book jackets ... An unmistakably modern evocation of the illuminated manuscript.

Jessica Helfand

#2. Tom said, "You should go. You could use a friend." It was not anything I had not thought myself. Still, hearing it aloud made me feel pitiable, and I had no wish to be, and so I...set off for a luncheon I did not much want to attend." p 233

Cathy Marie Buchanan

#3. Skills are never taught, they are acquired. I can give you a camera, but can't feed your vision.

Raghu Rai

#4. Graphic design is a popular art and a practical art, an applied art and an ancient art. Simply put, it is the art of visualizing ideas.

Jessica Helfand

#5. I'm taking you to get a bed. A big-ass bed. One that costs a fucking fortune,

Abbi Glines

#6. Certainly the women's health part is something that I've become very interested in. It's not something I thought about when George [Bush] was elected ... what I'd always been interested in was education.

Laura Bush

#7. During the earliest stages of thought, accommodation remains on the surface of physical as well as social experience.

Jean Piaget

#8. I did a lot of drugs. I didn't do multiple drugs, but I overindulged in whatever drug of choice.

Kevin Gates

#9. a petition campaign called Work to Live. The goal of this movement was to pass a law that would increase American vacation time to three weeks after one year on the job, and to four weeks after three years.

Rolf Potts

#10. I'm quite enthusiastic about any kind of gadget and app and feature and things that enable me to have a very convenient lifestyle. We buy our groceries on the Internet; I buy furniture, clothes for myself and my kids.

Margrethe Vestager

#11. I promise you, when I'm done, your ass will be sore, but others will be dead." "You're not being literal, are you?" "Yes, your ass will be sore." I

Aleatha Romig

#12. He invited me to his home for Christmas dinner and his little girl learned a few signs before I got there, and I taught her a few more."
I smiled, thinking of little Claudia.
"She asked me the sign for love and I spelled out your name.

Mia Sheridan

#13. Designing a comfortable day to day routine is the groundwork for needed stability and security in an unstructured world.

Lee Johnson

#14. You've gotta be the best thing I never knew I wanted.

Mariana Zapata

#15. I don't even like DVDs. Honest to God, in my lifetime, I might have rented a dozen DVDs, literally gone into a video store and rented a dozen DVDs in my lifetime, because I don't like to see movies that way. I like to see them on the big screen.

Michael Moore

#16. Music from my fourth year began to be the first of my youthful occupations. Thus early acquainted with the gracious muse who tuned my soul to pure harmonies, I became fond of her, and, as it often seemed to me, she of me.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#17. To all my fellow Americans who simply insist on hangin' on to those guns ... Two things: 1) Enjoy 'em! 2) Please keep them hidden in a safe, secure place where the young 'uns can't get at 'em (I'd suggest the same place you keep the textbooks on evolution and global warming).

Quentin R. Bufogle