Bouroullec Vitra Quotes & Sayings

There's things to put up wi' in ivery place, an' you may change an' change an' not better yourself when all's said an' done. — George Eliot

Answering the question 'How would you like to smell?' by saying 'I'd rather I didn't' is also no longer acceptable. It's not playing the game. Men are expected to put some cash into the cosmetic pot too - it's seen as almost un-feminist not to. What a uniquely capitalist response to that gender inequality: women have been forced by convention for generations - millennia - to spend money on expensive clothes and agonising shoes, to daub themselves with reality-concealing slap, to smell expensively inhuman, to self-mutilate in pursuit of eternal youth; and this, quite rightly, has come to be deemed unfair. But how do we end this hell? We make men do it too. Well done everyone. — David Mitchell

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start. — Charles Baudelaire

Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a good thing to have more of, without limits. All are subject to diminishing returns, and ultimately negative returns. — Thomas Sowell

The greatest danger for most of us in not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and reach it. — Michaelangelo

Power, when invested in the hands of knaves or fools, generally is the source of tyranny ... — Charlotte Charke

I'm a multi-platinum recording artist; my passion is food. — Kelis

We did that with people like Chris Rock, Woody Harrelson, and the environmentalist Julia Butterfly Hill. — Anthony Kiedis

Life is only a dream: soon, we shall awaken. And what joy! The greater our sufferings, the more limitless our glory. Oh! do not let us waste the trial Jesus sends. — Therese Of Lisieux

All they know is that their deaths are imminent. It's psychological warfare at its finest. — Suzanne Steele

It sometimes feels as though young women are trained from birth never to contribute anything original to a conversation. — Jessica Cluess

It's hard to explain what happens when jazz and punk fuse with a violin twist but it works. Probably because Anson Choi takes off his shirt while he's playing the saxophone. Whoever's not chatting up a Cadet or a girl from Darling House or playing chess with the guys is watching the band. I turn into a
groupie. — Melina Marchetta