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William McDonough Quotes

The magic question is, 'What for?' But art is not for anything. Art is the ultimate goal.

William McDonough

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: designer
Nationality: american
Birth: February 21, 1951

Topics

Art Magic Goal Question Anything

I was born and brought up in Liverpool with my clever little sister Jemma, who is 14 and wants to be a vet. My mum Jane is an administrator and my dad Peter is a taxi driver.

Jennifer Ellison

Sister Born Clever Up Taxi Little

I have to really enjoy someone's personality, not just their looks, before I'll kiss them.

Personality Kiss Someone Enjoy Looks

Directing is like meeting a woman. You don't know her, but something strikes you, and then you just have to go into it.

Maximilian Schell

Woman You Meeting Go Know Something

When you're learning how to do magic, the first rule is 'never reveal a secret.' In a way, by telling someone I'm a magician, it kind of gives away the best secret of all... How interesting to take the magician out of the equation of a magic show.

Michael Carbonaro

Learning Best Interesting Someone

Nothing's impossible, because in the word 'impossible,' it says, 'I'm possible.' Always know that no matter what, you can always do it, and don't let anybody tell you differently.

Impossible You Know Nothing Possible

The places where I have the nameless character in 'My Name Is Legion' meet his boss are real places I've been to. That works well for tax purposes, writing into my stories the places I've actually visited.

Character Boss Writing Name Meet

I don't want to portray myself as a daredevil. I'm not at all.

Myself Want Daredevil Portray

A movie, it's like a very complicated timepiece. There's a lot of wheels in a watch. And some of those wheels, if they don't turn right, then, you know, the watch ain't gonna tell the time.

Time You Complicated Know Right

The doors fly open when you're a professional athlete.

Fly Doors You Professional Athlete

You can't tell what's aboard a container ship. We carried every kind of cargo, all of it on view: a police car, penicillin, Johnnie Walker Red, toilets, handguns, lumber, Ping-Pong balls, and IBM data cards.

Christopher Buckley

Car Police Red Ship View Data

Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict.

Conflict Drama Intense Some Sort

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.

Life Success Failure Moment Lie

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