Design Discussion Quotes & Sayings

In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish. — Karl Lagerfeld

The Pavilion did not burn by lightening," she said.
He hesitated again. "It holds the memory of fire," he said at last. "Lightening is young and strong and thoughtless, but it could also wish to visit the site of some particular victory of one of its kind
as a young soldier recently commissioned might visit the scene of some great battle
— Robin McKinley

I want to die violently instead of fading out sentimentally. — F Scott Fitzgerald

There are cases where psychoanalysis works worse than anything else. But who said that psychoanalysis was to be applied always and everywhere. — Carl Jung

First lay plans which will ensure victory, and then lead your army to battle; if you will not begin with stratagem but rely on brute strength alone, victory will no longer be assured — Sun Tzu

Novel-writing has in one respect an affinity to the drama - that time and distance are required to soften for use the harsher features that may be exhibited from real life; that it was almost impossible to bring forward events without touching on their causes; and that any tendency to political discussion, however liberal or applicable, was not to be tolerated in a sort of work which people took up with no other design than to be amused at the least possible expence of thought. — Charlotte Turner Smith

There's an undeniable thrill in seeing what's most current in our lives offered back to us in fictional guise, but it soon dates and it's never enough. — Graham Swift

Is that a space?
No, it's a hydrant. — Becky Albertalli

One thing that is sometimes forgotten in this "future of books" discussion is that there are all these awesome presses - big and small - that are producing and designing amazing books. — Kevin Sampsell

Because wonder admits to the existence of mystery, and the recognition of mystery in the world allows the possibility of Truth. — Dean Koontz

Life is not a romance novel — Meg Cabot

Stopped as attribute of a person, sex inequality takes the form of gender; moving as a relation between people, it takes the form of sexuality. Gender emerges as the congealed form of the sexualization of inequaltiy between men and women. — Catharine MacKinnon

When it came to the dark fuckery of the human heart, there seemed to be no limit. — Stephen King

PATIENCE is the antidote to anger, a way to learn to love and care for whatever we meet on the path. — Pema Chodron