It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.

What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere -- it is an art form in itself.

Anita Brookner

I bought some powdered water, but I don't know what to add to it.

Steven Wright

I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.

William Butler Yeats

Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired.

Richard Kemph

For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds are blended so good and evil in the end become confounded.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.

John Ruskin

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

Blaise Pascal

My skull, my eyes, my nose three times, my jaw, my shoulder, my chest, two fingers, a knee, everything from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet. Listing what body parts he has broken

Jackie Chan

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

James Joyce

Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.

Horace Greeley

Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.

Nathaniel P. Willis

By Modernism I mean the positive rejection of the past and the blind belief in the process of change, in novelty for its own sake, in the idea that progress through time equates with cultural progress; in the cult of individuality, originality and self-expression.

Dan Cruickshank