Achille Quotes & Sayings

Well if this is really happening, and this psycho really did kidnap us, I want food. — L. Taylor

How this is possible is, first, by being, literally, several in a single body. "We are twelve in my body. We are packed like sardines." In other words, the being that I am exists each time in several modes - or, let us say, several beings, which, although sometimes mutually exclusive, are nevertheless inside one another. — Achille Mbembe

Families don't make projects for five years, they make projects for generations. — Achille Maramotti

When the music industry started collapsing, the logical people understood that the only place to go for shelter was the underground. If the world on the surface is burning up, and you know people that have bunkers, go to the bunkers. — Will.i.am

So how on earth can I bring a child into the world, knowing that such sorrow lies ahead, that it is such a large part of what it means to be human?
I'm not sure. That's my answer: I'm not sure. — Anne Lamott

There has to be irony, both in design and in the objects. I see around me a professional disease of taking everything too seriously. One of my secrets is to joke all the time — Achille Castiglioni

To create is, first and foremost, to create time. — Achille Mbembe

Ah, beer, my one weakness. My Achille's heel, if you will. — Homer

Fashion is never in crisis because clothes are always necessary. — Achille Maramotti

Celebrities were quick to understand that paparazzi could make icons of them. The more a star is followed and admired, the greater the adulation. So they raised the stakes, sometimes hiding when they don't even need to. Today, stardom is more ephemeral and it's photography that gives them their celebrity status. — Ron Galella

As one person always said "Good things come to those who wait." You don't have to be connivingly sneaky and passing judgement if one don't use protection, so you can have your fantasies. If you do others right, the lord will bless right judgements and knowledge. — Daaimah S. Poole

Crime is fast destroying the moral fabric of South African cities, and is becoming a major threat to South African democracy as well as the prominent manifestation of a "class war" that is largely a continuation of the "race war" of yesterday. — Achille Mbembe

I think time is a constraint to destroy and then reinvent. If you give me a constraint, I'll accept it. But I always try to move it around, or to readapt it. Ecco! If you lock me in a room, well I'll go out through the window! I always remember Achille Castiglioni, one of my mentors, and he always said that in industrial design you have the idea, the fantasy, the concepts - that's the marmalade! - but the constraint of the brief is the bread. You need both in order to find structure for your ideas. — Patricia Urquiola

The other thing is that women my age know that looks are only skin deep. They don't matter. What matters is who you are. Hopefully at the end of the day, you're a good person. That's what counts. — Marcia Hines

Even if all philosophers do eat, some may eat more than others. This situation is called "lack of fairness". Or life. — Dennis E. Shasha

Ethics and religion must not stay at home when we go to work. — Achille Silvestrini

Achille Adrien Proust, was a famous doctor and epidemiologist, responsible for studying and attempting to remedy the causes and movements of cholera through Europe and Asia — Marcel Proust