I can’t wait to be home and put some Vaseline on my thumbs.
— Woman behind me on the plane
Oh well.
— Bobbi, Wild
He humorously observed that if a manufacturer of corrugated boxes needed design to improve business, then every business needed design.
— Hunter Middleton and Alexander Ebin, Impressions from the Design Conference held at Aspen, Colorado, June 28 through July 1, 1951
Can you imagine living in those countries?
— Woman on North Mill Street after American Sniper
Rock by rock.
— Rev. Ralph Abernathy, Selma
I like to think I did.
— Augustus Elijah Underwood, House of Cards
I’m hoping they have a baked potato! Please!
— Emily
I had to get out of there kinda fast. I left like seven whole boxes of Michael Jordan sneakers and my car… I don’t sleep. I’m not like a normal person… Better to be honest with people, even if it’s not what they want to hear… I got a great tie collection… Even if you’re not working your dream job, it’s important to try to be as good as you can… The key is to be honest… You don’t have to be an asshole to get things done… I kept a diary from 1982 to 2008.
— Kevin, AAA Taxi
Out to Michigan up to Maine.
— Martin Sexton, “Diner”
The sunshine in.
— The 5th Dimension, “Medley: Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In”
You are on tonight.
— Pam
I just like it as furniture.
— Deana Lawson
C'mon!
— Jimmy Fallon, “Jimmy Fallon Blew a Chance to Date Nicole Kidman," The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
While the “corporate style” was expanding into all areas, so was the company physically.
— Susan Black, The First Fifty Years 1926-1976
Because the corporate concept admits of contradiction and difference while still remaining operative in the world, it is not only a cultural problem but also potentially the very solution to that problem.
— John Harwood, “The Corporation As Concept,” Art in America
The autonomous artwork, ultimately a religious ideal, is a beautiful modern contrivance. Architecture is perhaps best thought of as pre-modern art.
— Chris Wood, “Why Autonomy,” Perspecta 32: Mining Autonomy
The language of vision, like any other language, can be lied in. As many frauds have been perpetrated in Bodoni as by Barnum.
— James Real, “Image or Façade?,” in Reyner Banham, The Aspen Papers: Twenty Years of Design Theory from the International Design Conference in Aspen
The fact I can see it as an excuse for the next few weeks of a sudden it was the best of the day before I get a follow back on my way home from work to be the first half of the day before I get a follow back on my way home from work to be the first half of the year and the first half of the year and the first half of the day I have a great way of the year of high quality of life and the other hand is the only thing that would have to go back and the other hand is the only thing that would have to go back and the first half of the day I have a great way of the year of high quality of life and then you have a good time with the first half of the year of high quality and I don’t think that I can see.
— Thomas’ iPhone’s middle QuickType button
I love corporate Tuesdays.
— David White in MOMA
Cattle like curves. They don’t moo at curves.
— Temple Grandin, Temple Grandin