Vignelli Associates Quotes

#1. I do believe CDSs [credit default swaps] have been miscast, much as poor workmen tend to blame their tools.

Blythe Masters

#2. Truth is a slippery concept. It changes shape according to who's speaking it and it never looks the same to any two people.

Deb Baker

#3. No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language.

Benjamin Disraeli

#4. If I had multiple lives, I'd like to do many things, including being a homicide investigator. I'm not brave enough to chase people and draw down on them. Having spent time with that, it can be an incredibly terrifying job.

Veena Sud

#5. He was a square, pale-faced man of almost forty, and had the appearance of having outlived every emotion to which humanity is subject.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

#6. Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.

William Shakespeare

#7. The most important thing for any aspiring writer, is to read! And not just the sort of thing you're trying to write, be that fantasy, SF, comic books, whatever. You need to read everything.

George R R Martin

#8. I know hardly anything about Galahad except that everybody dislikes him."
"Dislikes him?"
"They complain about him being inhuman."
Lancelot considered his cup.
"He is inhuman," he said at last. "But why should he be human? Are angels supposed to be human?

T.H. White

#9. If I was English I'd kill myself

Gordon Strachan

#10. Men have learned the secret of unity.

Frederick Lenz

#11. Not in vain has Lincoln lived, for he has helped to make this republic an example of justice, with no caste but the caste of humanity.

George Bancroft

#12. Tomorrow's trials concerned her more than yesterday's triumphs.

George R R Martin

#13. I get paid for seeing that my clients have every break the law allows. I have knowingly defended a number of guilty men. But the guilty never escape unscathed. My fees are sufficient punishment for anyone.

F. Lee Bailey

#14. I need a life outside of soccer. So I very much welcome, you know, new love interests and dating and friends and family.

Hope Solo

#15. Life is not the road or even the destination, but the journey,

Jaume Cabre