Michael Graves Quotes

Someone once told me they didn't like taking the lid off the kettle because they'd just lose it in the kitchen, so we made a kettle with an attached lid that you slide. It was in response to that that we made one that did something different.

Michael Graves

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: architect
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 9, 1934 - March 12, 2015

Topics

MeKitchenSomeoneYouLoseOff

If you get satisfaction out of playing music and entertaining people and it makes you feel right, then go for it.

Joe Perry

MusicPeopleFeelYouSatisfaction

Whenever I passed by a Chinese restaurant in a car, I'd joke to my friends, 'Oh yeah, my uncle owns that place.'

Jenny Zhang

CarRestaurantFriendsUnclePlace

Human progress has always been driven by a sense of adventure and unconventional thinking.

Andre Geim

ProgressAdventureThinkingHuman

My dad bought a Beatles tape when I was in fifth grade, and that was the first time I ever really - I mean I was into music, but that was the first time it really blew my mind. When I heard the 'Red Compilation,' which wasn't like a proper album, I thought, 'music was more than I had ever thought it was before.'

Andrew Dost

MusicTimeRedMindThoughtMean

I have so many moments. I am extremely passionate about life and at the same time, I'm always depressed, so everything's always happening at the same time for me. It's the best day and the worst day too.

Amy Ray

LifeTimeBestDayI AmMe

You always want to learn, you know.

Trombone Shorty

LearnYouKnowWantAlways

Intelligence is not a moral category.

Tucker Carlson

IntelligenceMoralCategory

I went to live on a kibbutz, and I'd idealized the world of collective, agrarian work, where everyone was equal, everyone contributed, that all this awful European intellectual stuff just fell away.

Tony Judt

WorkLiveWorldIntellectualEqual

The sights and sounds and smells, the whole genre of Westerns - I love them.

Mary Steenburgen

LoveWholeSightsGenreSoundsThem

I am a movie star.

Jayne Mansfield

I AmStarMovie StarMovieAm

Family transcends the flesh. You don't love someone because they look like you, you love their spirit; it's the soul connection.

Christine Ebersole

FamilyLoveSoulSomeoneYouLook

I didn't really think I liked jazz all that much until I was about 18. That's when the freedom and possibilities of it began to seem appealing to me.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

FreedomMeThinkPossibilitiesJazz

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