Paola Quotes

#1. Queen Paola and I will never forget the ties that have grown between the people and us during the course of the years. Thank you for your confidence, tokens of sympathy and support, sometimes even with a little criticism. We always loved you.

King Albert II

#2. Paola Calvetti takes readers on a delicious trip through Italy, books, letters and love, reminding us all of the joys of a completely compelling read."
Cathie Beck, author of Cheap Cabernet: A Friendship

Paola Calvetti

#3. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need, and beauty to produce something that the world didn't know it was missing. - PAOLA ANTONELLI, curator of architecture and design, Museum of Modern Art

Daniel H. Pink

#4. Love trumped principle. Paola tossed out these things

Donna Leon

#5. As if sensing his attention, Paola turned her head towards him and allowed her eyes to close and then open slowly, as though she'd been told that the Crucifixion had only just begun and there still remained a number of nails. The

Donna Leon

#6. At one point, Paola expressed a wish and used the subjunctive, and Brunetti felt himself close to tears at the beauty of the intellectual complexity of it: she could speak about what was not, could invent an alternative reality. He

Donna Leon

#7. P.O. Box Love is a wonderfully engrossing and romantic novel that takes the reader from Milan to New York and back again through the letters Federico and Emma mail to each other. Paola Calvetti's book will captivate your mind and steal your heart."

Isabella Rossellini

Paola Calvetti

#8. The idea of being able to build things bottom up, atom by atom, has made [scientists] all into tinkerers. And all of a sudden scientists are seeking designers, just like designers are seeking scientists.

Paola Antonelli

#9. I don't want to coach too far into my 60s. By then, I'll be playing golf four or five times a week.

Steve Spurrier

#10. I suppose that having lost true love once, I never wanted to replace it with a lukewarm approximation that would only serve to make me remember it forever.

Paola Kaufmann

#11. Designers may be the true intellectuals of the future.

Paola Antonelli

#12. Belief in Jesus does not come by the waving of a magic wand. It comes by hearing the word of God through Jesus.

John Piper

#13. Life is tough; thank God there's design.

Paola Antonelli

#14. I think the desire for adventure and discovery is the essence by which our souls have been woven. It is as if we all might be browsers by nature, and we not even for a moment cease to surprise and wonder about the things around us.

Paola Sanjinez

#15. We live today not in the digital, not in the physical, but in the kind of minestrone that our mind makes of the two.

Paola Antonelli

#16. I consider video games a form of design that is amazingly important today and that is going to become even more important in the future, because it is a way we interact with machines and screens.

Paola Antonelli

#17. Wonderful invention, the phonograph. Keeps a man alive long after he's dead.

P.J. Wolfson

#18. Elegance in objects is everybody's right, and it shouldn't cost more than ugliness.

Paola Antonelli

#19. I know every arrow must count, and they do. In the eerie light,

Suzanne Collins

#20. Heaven is satisfied curiosity.

Paola Antonelli

#21. Small objects, like the Walkman first and then the iPod, create bubbles of space around us that enable us to have a metaphysical space that is much bigger than our physical space.

Paola Antonelli

#22. Being attractive matters everywhere - getting jobs, getting laid, and yes, getting acquitted by a jury of your peers. No one can resist a pretty face. As long as it's not too pretty. Back

Marcia Clark

#23. Designers stand between revolutions and everyday life. They're able to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and society and convert those changes into objects and ideas that people can understand.

Paola Antonelli

#24. Designers need to be mavericks, because the best way to design a successful object is to pretend that either it never existed or that people will be able to have a new behavior with it.

Paola Antonelli

#25. While an artist can choose whether or not to be responsive and responsible towards other human beings, by definition a designer must be.

Paola Antonelli

#26. Not all design is for the general good.

Paola Antonelli

#27. Don't write to sell, write to tell.

Jonas Eriksson

#28. Do you believe that evil and tragedy are always planned? You don't think Fortune has anything to do with it?

Amy Neftzger

#29. Ugly design should be rejected, just like nonfunctional design is rejected, just like nonenvironmentally conscious design should be rejected. It's a value.

Paola Antonelli

#30. The recollection of an injury is ... a rusty arrow and poison for the soul.

Francis Of Paola

#31. Nobody deserves to be treated like a princess 100% of the time ... not even me.

Jessica Simpson

#32. Paradise is full of idiots who believe it exists

Georges Wolinski

#33. I want people to understand that design is so much more than cute chairs - that it is first and foremost everything that is around us in our life.

Paola Antonelli

#34. Beauty and elegance are a right, not a surplus ... We must demand, at least, intention.

Paola Antonelli

#35. Be yourself, be in the moment, you're going to be modern

Paola Antonelli

#36. You focus on the things that you can control, and that's what I'm doing.

Jeb Bush