Brinkmeier Stifel Quotes & Sayings

There was a lot of purple on the covers. Purple sold scary books better than any other color, Mike had been told. — Stephen King

I sought a great performer who would deeply impress me, and I found Lior Suchard. — Uri Geller

If you torture the data long enough, it will confess. — Ronald Coase

I feel like the whole world is off balance. Like I'm losing my shit. Like there's this cliff and I don't even realize I'm on the edge. — Megan Miranda

The Master said, "The gentleman does not serve as a vessel."
(Analects 2.12) — Confucius

Our intuition about the future is linear. But the reality of information technology is exponential, and that makes a profound difference. If I take 30 steps linearly, I get to 30. If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion. — Ray Kurzweil

But who are they anyway?
To decide what I am. — Jessica Sorensen

Sometimes big designers are afraid that people won't recognize them if they change that much. — Donatella Versace

When God created us, did he actually intend to make us so ugly? — Bo Yang

Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films! - but it's nice to have an excuse to just sit and read for a whole day. — Christopher Hampton

Beauty Is More Than Skin Deep — Maxwell Maltz

It reminded me of that tongue-in-cheek quick history of art I'd overheard ... Used to be people couldn't draw very well, then they could, and now they can't again. — Charles De Lint

Things which in my mind blossom will
stumble beneath a clumsiest disguise appear
capable of fragility and indecision — E. E. Cummings

We in the "developed" world seem to have many auditory strategies that insulate us from the presence of silence, simplicity, and solitude. When I return to Western culture after time in desert, mountain or forest, I discover how we have filled our world with a multiplicity of noises, a symphony of forgetfulness that keeps our won thoughts and realizations, feelings and intuitions out of audible range. — Joan Halifax