Sottsass Bitossi Quotes & Sayings

Even among the ancients the more grown-up knew that the source of right is power, that right is a function of power. So take some scales and put on one side a gram, on the other a ton; on one side "I" and on the other "We," OneState. It's clear, isn't it? - to assert that "I" have certain "rights" with respect to the State is exactly the same as asserting that a gram weighs the same as a ton. That explains the way things are divided up: To the ton go the rights, to the gram the duties. And the natural path from nullity to greatness is this: Forget that you're a gram and feel yourself a millionth part of a ton. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

The latest report says the results of an investigation will be released in three or four weeks. That's a long time for fruit flies and the press. — Denis Boyles

How much finer things are in composition than alone. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

For me, movies should be visual. If you want dialogue, you should read a book. — Vilmos Zsigmond

Moral living sometimes demands difficult choices. It requires selflessness. — Billy Graham

When you put the musical in front of an audience, you get to see how the audience reacts. — Jennifer Damiano

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered. — John Updike

He wouldn't look at me. He stood against the wall, trying to merge with the wall. — Ross Macdonald

Drugs are delusive; they do not adjust anything. — Daniel D. Palmer

Some people are faster than others; I'm just figuring it out later, that's all. I'm getting smart too late and old too soon. — Mike Tyson

Aloneness and all-oneness is our authentic nature. We are always alone and all-one. We came into this planet alone and all-one. We will leave alone and all-one. And also during our whole staying in this world, no matter how we engage in relationships, we continue to be alone and all-one, though we may forget about it or pretend it is not the case.
True love has nothing to do with the idea that someone is the other half of my soul and that I need him or her in order to be whole and feel complete. Only when we can be alone and all-one with someone there is true love, regardless of whether that someone is still with us or not.
And yet ... I miss you ... — Franco Santoro

I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

It's a terrible thing to hate your mother. But I didn't always hate her. When I was a child, I only kind of disliked her. — Laurence Harvey

I close my eyes, knowing that afterward we will fall asleep together on our small mattress, as we do every night, listening to the wind in the palm trees outside our window, believing in our thick dreams that we are capable of nothing cruel. — Andrew Porter