Verner Panton Quotes

#1. My own fault. The equipment had safeties but your primary piece of protective equipment was your brain. There was a presumption that anyone entering this room was intelligent enough to keep away from hot things, sharp things, and things carrying large stores of momentum.

Max Barry

#2. If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.

Marilyn Monroe

#3. I was only one woman alone, and had no power to move to action full-fed, sleek- coated, ease-loving, pleasure-seeking, well-paid,and well-placed countrymen in this war- trampled, dead, old land, each one afraid that he should be called upon to do something.

Clara Barton

#4. One sits more comfortably on a colour that one likes.

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#5. Bitterness has not the capacity to make the distinction between some and all. When some members of the dominant group, particularly those in power, are racist in attitude and practice, bitterness accuses the whole group.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#6. The main purpose of my work is to provoke people into using their imagination and make their surroundings more exciting.

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#7. A failed experiment can be more important than a trivial design

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#8. I believe Success is achieved by ordinary people with Extraordinary Determination.

Zig Ziglar

#9. The French have a term for this brazenness: je m'en foutisme, the brave art of not giving a damn.

Mark Matousek

#10. All day long I hear nothing but what an exasperating child I am, and although I laugh it off and pretend not to mind, I wish I could ask God to give me another personality, one that doesn't antagonize everyone.

Anne Frank

#11. Choosing colours should not be a gamble. It should be a conscious decision. Colours have a meaning and a function.

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#12. You sit better on a colour that you like

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#13. An invisible hand cracks open my jaw and pours fear down my throat. I choke on it.

Tarryn Fisher

#14. I believe that there will be many things that happen to me in my life that I will not be able to explain. Some of those might be magic. I'm not sure.

Chris Van Allsburg