Top 87 Massimo Quotes
#1. Hey, Salvo," asked Max when they had almost fallen asleep. "May I write your story?"
"Don't you dare, amico" was Salvatore's reply. "Kindly come up with your own storia, young Massimo. If you take mine, I'll have none left of my own
Nina George
#2. MASSIMO: "After all I have done, to have you love me is nothing less than a miracle."
BELINDA: He was wrong. Loving him was the easiest thing in the world. That they'd found each other after their respective histories was the miracle.
Billy London
#3. MASSIMO: I will not let you give me up out of some misguided duty to God....You and I do not need to be alone to show devotion to God. Misery does not show true faith.
Billy London
#4. Right now he was having a hell of a time keeping the bear under control. He wanted to roar and tear Massimo limb from limb. He wanted to toss his lifeless body away from Cassie. "Stop the growling, Talen," Gerri snapped. "You scared her into fainting. There's something you don't see every day.
Milly Taiden
#5. BELINDA:Your children are a pain in the neck...
MASSIMO: They are mine when they misbehave -
BELINDA: Which is always.
MASSIMO: And yours when they behave like angels.
BELINDA: I'll be old by the time that happens.
Billy London
#6. I am Massimo Bottura. I close my eyes and I want to understand where I am, cooking is about emotion, it's about culture, it's about love, it's about memory.
Massimo Bottura
#7. A grid is like underwear, you wear it but it's not to be exposed.
Massimo Vignelli
#8. One of the first lessons from Stoicism, then, is to focus our attention and efforts where we have the most power and then let the universe run as it will. This will save us both a lot of energy and a lot of worry. Another
Massimo Pigliucci
#9. I see graphic design as the organization of information that is semantically correct, syntactically consistent and pragmatically understandable.
Massimo Vignelli
#10. The computer is really like a pencil, you know. It used to be. The pencil can do anything you want to, but you have to do it, and the same is with the computer.
Massimo Vignelli
#11. I don't think that type should be expressive at all. I can write the word 'dog' with any typeface and it doesn't have to look like a dog. But there are people that [think that] when they write 'dog' it should bark.
Massimo Vignelli
#12. To a hammer, every problem is a nail," we said on the team but we called him 'the screwdriver'. We were confronted with stubborn nails and we needed a sledgehammer.
Massimo Marino
#17. [T]he nature of science is not that of a steady, linear progression toward the Truth, but rather a tortuous road, often characterized by dead ends and U-turns, and yet ultimately inching toward a better, if tentative, understanding of the natural world.
Massimo Pigliucci
#18. You cannot play the piano by telling a pianist what to do, go a little more to the left or to the right. And the same is for the computer, really. You have to play yourself to get the most out of it.
Massimo Vignelli
#19. History sometimes reproduces, at a distance of many years, the same combinations of circumstances that generate great achievements. But nothing ever repeats itself in exactly the same way.
Valerio Massimo Manfredi
#20. Science progresses. Ideology tends to linger unchanged, and often unquestioned.
Massimo Pigliucci
#21. Design without discipline is anarchy, an exercise of irresponsibilit y.
Massimo Vignelli
#22. If you do the best thing everyday of your life, but nothing shakes you nor shakes the table for you and others, it is stale and its not worth it.
Massimo Vignelli
#23. My photography comes from absolute matter-of-fact situations but also from a deep curiosity that I possess for people, for what they do and how they think.
Massimo Vitali
#24. It is because one can build a compelling set of arguments - informed by science and thoroughly compatible with it - that to believe in anything despite the complete lack of evidence is, in fact, irrational.
Massimo Pigliucci
#25. In the new computer age, the proliferation of typefaces and type manipulations represents a new level of visual pollution threatening our culture. Out of thousands of typefaces, all we need are a few basic ones, and trash the rest.
Massimo Vignelli
#26. Scale is extremely important. Scale is not dimensions. Dimensions are physical and scales are mental.
Massimo Vignelli
#27. [T]he downside of skepticism: it can easily turn into an arrogant position of a priori rejection of any new phenomenon or idea, a position that is as lacking in critical thinking as the one of the true believer, and that simply does not help either science or the public at large.
Massimo Pigliucci
#28. Freedom is for the curious ones. Free is the one not influenced by taboos. Free is the one who reasons and evolves continuously, and refuses to accept anything without thinking.
Massimo Marino
#29. Most of the manufacturers they tend to design things to sell they are more interested in the money side than anything else.
Massimo Vignelli
#30. Bad thoughts can be dangerous if left to simmer and weaken the heart slowly and invisibly. Like termites that destroy the beams of a house, secretly, in the dark until it's too late and everything collapses.
Massimo Marino
#31. The pencil you leave it there, and it's dead. It doesn't do anything and it doesn't move by itself. It doesn't offer anything; it's totally submissive to you.
Massimo Vignelli
#33. When the Universe is taken into account, nothing is impossible.
Massimo Marino
#34. We're not choosing the art, the art is choosing us. The pieces are choosing the walls where they hang.
Massimo Bottura
#35. You do design because you feel it inside; you have a moral issue to spread quality in our environment.
Massimo Vignelli
#36. Following the Post Modernist route, we may indeed never arrive at meaning, but not because meaning is not there ... only because we are lost in endless linguistic games that are entirely beside the point.
Massimo Pigliucci
#37. The scale relates to everything. The thickness of a pipe, the thickness of a leg of the furniture. Even color could have a scale.
Massimo Vignelli
#40. It's not important to develop your own style but your own approach.
Massimo Vignelli
#41. The only way to stay in fashion is never be in. If you are never in fashion, you are never out of fashion.
Massimo Vignelli
#42. The computer needs ... even by accident, offers incredible beautiful things that are very seductive. And if you forget about, or if you don't have an idea to begin with, it is very easy to be seduced and that is not a good use of the computer.
Massimo Vignelli
#43. It made our presence in the world meaningful; we still served a purpose.
Massimo Marino
#46. philip closed his eyes and stood upright and immobile in the middle of the silet room. In that moment the roar of battle, the creaking wood of the siege engines, the furious galloping of the horses all faded away; he simply stood stock still and listened to his son's breathing.
Valerio Massimo Manfredi
#47. Richard Dawkins lamented,9 we think that our kids need to have "fun, fun, fun" rather than, say, experience wonder or interest (they are not the same thing) when going to school or a museum.
Massimo Pigliucci
#48. British astronomer royal Richard Woolley, who in 1956 said, "All this talk about space travel is utter bilge, really."10 Yuri Gagarin was the first human to orbit the earth just five years later.
Massimo Pigliucci
#49. As astronomer Carl Sagan once aptly put it, you do not want to keep your mind so open that your brain is likely to fall out.
Massimo Pigliucci
#50. I will never give up. Remind yourself of this, we can survive and we will survive.
Massimo Marino
#51. It is revolutionary in the history of human thinking to imagine that the world is not built with solid bricks, but rather with vibration, energy.
Massimo Citro
#52. If all people doing desktop publishing were doctors we would all be dead!
Massimo Vignelli
#53. You can say, "I love you," in Helvetica. And you can say it with Helvetica Extra Light if you want to be really fancy. Or you can say it with the Extra Bold if it's really intensive and passionate, you know, and it might work.
Massimo Vignelli
#55. Styles come and go. Good design is a language, not a style.
Massimo Vignelli
#56. Remember, my boy, I never fight for the pleasure of wielding weapons. War, for me, is simply politics by other means.
Valerio Massimo Manfredi
#58. there's nothing wrong with ads. It's how newspapers and radio stations and Tv channels pay the bills and turn a profit. But please stop the bullshit about the "conversations".
Massimo Moruzzi
#59. A poet, Hephaestion, sings not to narrate human events as they occur, but to make sure that we have the opportunity of living the emotions and the passions of our heroes even at a distance of centuries.
Valerio Massimo Manfredi
#60. There are people that thinks that type should be expressive. They have a different point of view from mine.
Massimo Vignelli
#61. Intellectual elegance [is] a mind that is continually refining itself with education and knowledge. Intellectual elegance is the opposite of intellectual vulgarity.
Massimo Vignelli
#62. Don't be governed by the grid, govern the grid. A grid is like a lion cage - if the trainer stays too long it gets eaten up. You have to know when to leave the cage - you have to know when to leave the grid.
Massimo Vignelli
#64. As a photographer you have to do things you don't want to.
Massimo Vitali
#65. If a theory purports to explain everything, then it is likely not explaining much at all.
Massimo Pigliucci
#66. Photography is like a river with a thousand streams that never converge.
Massimo Vitali
#67. It's the space you put between the notes that make the music.
Massimo Vignelli
#69. Good design is a matter of discipline. It starts by looking at the problem and collecting all the available information about it. If you understand the problem, you have the solution. It's really more about logic than imagination.
Massimo Vignelli
#71. The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness.
Massimo Vignelli
#72. Time oozed away, flowing like lava erupting lazily from a vent, slowly and impossible to stop, covering everything into oblivion under its dark layer of things that were and will never be again.
Massimo Marino
#73. Like many Eastern European gangsters, he had been an official in the state security apparatus until the Communist regime collapsed.
Massimo Carlotto
#74. I like it to be visually powerful, intellectually elegant, and above all, timeless.
Massimo Vignelli
#75. Designers take care of everything around us. Everything that is around us, this table, this chair, this lamp, this pen has been designed. All of these things, everything has been designed by somebody.
Massimo Vignelli
#76. There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence.
Massimo Vignelli
#78. What did the Romans say? "De gustibus non est disputandum": It is worthless to discuss personal taste. It is called 'personal' for a reason.
Massimo Marino
#80. Nothing can stop a one-step-at-a-time journey. Nothing!
Massimo Marino
#81. You can reach timelessness if you look for the essence of things and not the appearance. The appearance is transitory - the appearance is fashion, the appearance is trendiness - but the essence is timeless.
Massimo Vignelli
#82. I'm not a designer, I'm a sifter. I can sift everything, all the time. My sift level lines keep shaking all the time for everything that is around.
Massimo Vignelli
#83. The idea turned Facebook into the digital version of a message in a bottle.
Massimo Marino
#84. The web is an opportunity for those who understand that the web is a threat.
Massimo Moruzzi
#85. Never write anything that does not move you or give you pleasure. Emotion is then transferred from the writer to the reader.
Massimo Marino
#86. The first thing you need to make clear to a client is that you aren't there to answer his wants but to answer his needs.
Massimo Vignelli
#87. Life must be lived at the right time. Death is not scary when one dies after having lived fully. One must choose to live though and face all adversities.
Massimo Marino
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