Tussles Designs Quotes & Sayings

He was clearly a man of many qualities, even if they were mostly bad ones. — Douglas Adams

With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today what they did was sounder. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Having made films, I know very well that the scope of the average 90- to 120-minute movie is about the same narrative heft as a long short story or a novella. — Paul Auster

An emigres artistic problem: the numerically equal blocks of a lifetime are unequal in weight, depending on whether they comprise young or adult years. The adult years may be richer and more important for life and for creative activity both, but the subconscious, memory, language, all the understructure of creativity, are formed very early; for a doctor, that won't make problems, but for a novelist or a composer, leaving the place to which his imagination, his obsessions, and thus his fundamental themes are bound could make for a kind of ripping apart. He must mobilize all his powers, all his artists wiles, to turn the disadvantages of that situation to benefits.
[ ... ] Only returning to the native land after a long absence can reveal the substantial strangeness of the world and of existence. — Milan Kundera

Nanny Ogg gave this the same consideration as would a nuclear physicist who'd just been told that someone was banging two bits of sub-critical uranium together to keep warm. — Terry Pratchett

Grownups don't know how to believe — Frances Griffiths

There's a time and a place for everything. ... Yes. This is my time and you are in my place. — Poppet

There never was any hope," Caesar muttered.
"There was, before you destroyed it. — Meagan Spooner

The people closest to you routinely catch the flak thrown off by the explosive stuff you normally work so hard to keep hidden. — Andy Stanley

It's hard to understand how you arrive at a design. It's far too complicated to get any overall picture of. — Bill Reid