Tibor Kalman Quotes

I am interested in imperfections, quirkiness, insanity, unpredictability. That's what we really pay attention to anyway. We don't talk about planes flying; we talk about them crashing.

Tibor Kalman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: designer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 6, 1949 - May 2, 1999

Topics

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Love is love's reward.

John Dryden

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I don't like to be noticed. The older I've got, the more reclusive I've become. I've got late-onset shyness. People are lovely. When they see me in the street, they don't ask for anything from me. They just say: 'I thought it was you, and I just wanted to say how much I enjoy your books,' but I can't seem to cope with it anymore.

Sue Townsend

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People who wave digital cameras at shows are the same people who sit in front of you at hockey games and wear those giant foam-rubber fingers that say, We're number one!'

Rob Sheffield

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I think Wilco is going to definitely stand the test of time - no question - and Uncle Tupleo, and the whole No Depression scene, which is now alt-country. I think that's going to be around a long time.

Roger McGuinn

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Dragons, to my way of thinking, are just another 'race' of sapient characters. We see lots of elves, dwarves, orcs, goblins, giants and, of course, dragons.

Robin Hobb

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But sometimes I think you have to try to do things that people don't think are doable.

Michel Hazanavicius

PeopleThinkYouSometimesTry

I moved in fourth grade in the middle of the school year, and I was the new kid in school.

Michael Steger

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If there ever is a struggle, making a good movie will always supersede the need to be noble.

Michael Moore

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Particularly over the last few decades, technological innovation has offered opportunities to bring people and nations together - but it has also created significant new challenges to law enforcement.

Loretta Lynch

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The thing with focus is that it's not this thing you aspire to, like, 'Oh, on Monday I'm going to be focused.' It's every single minute: 'Why are we talking about this when we're supposed to be talking about this?'

Jonathan Ive

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Yet, while producing increasingly selfish people, the mantra of the Left, and therefore of the universities and the media, has been for generations that capitalism and the free market, not the welfare state, produces selfish people.

Dennis Prager

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All the competitors knew the importance of Halloween Havoc. It was the WCW equivalent to SummerSlam.

Diamond Dallas Page

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