Nicholas Haslam Quotes

Often it's a lack of time, not taste, that leads someone to hire a decorator. A good decorator/client relationship should be like a marriage. The time one puts in needs to be extensive. One needs to listen to them and understand what they like and how they live.

Nicholas Haslam

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: designer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: September 27, 1939

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GoodMarriageLiveRelationshipTime

Jellyfish serve as a model for bioengineers for the same reason yeast were once so valuable to geneticists: they're simple to deconstruct.

Jeffrey Kluger

SimpleReasonSameServeValuable

From the moment my dad died, from the moment I found out there was the possibility of his dying, there were many surprises - years after, minutes after. The moments I was okay were as surprising as the ones that I wasn't. Making it through the eulogy without losing it. And then the guilt I felt about it. Surprise!

Alysia Reiner

MomentLosingSurpriseGuiltMoments

History is everything that has ever happened.

Stephen Ambrose

HistoryEverythingHappenedEver

I think people will be surprised to find that I'm not as much of an idiot as they think I am. I'm not a real moron.

Steve-O

I AmPeopleThinkIdiotFindWill

I just can't resist mutton biryani. It's something I've loved eating as a child too. Whenever I'm feeling low, I just pep myself with some good biryani.

Riteish Deshmukh

GoodMyselfChildEatingLovedLow

In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.

Robert Anderson

MarriageDivorceWeekFindMoreOld

I'm a freelance writer, and I work alone at a big desk in the living room of my apartment. There are many days when I don't utter a single word to anyone but my husband.

Robin Marantz Henig

WorkAloneHusbandDeskLivingRoom

I collect rocks from all over the world. I have a ring of stones that date to 3500 B.C. It's like a little Stonehenge.

Robert Wilson

WorldRocksRingOverLittleDate

I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women.

Joseph McCabe

WomenI AmFindThreeThirtyHuman

I see bad stuff on the street all the time that I don't do anything about. I do bad stuff myself all the time. The goal is not to somehow be perfect - that's silly, that's naive. The goal is to just recognize there are choices in front of us, and to try to make better ones.

Jonathan Safran Foer

TimeMyselfChoicesBetterBadGoal

I'm not a communist, just a media theorist.

Douglas Rushkoff

MediaCommunistJustTheorist

I really, truly appreciate Conor McGregor's style - his fighting style and the way he talks. The reason why is because he reminds me of a young Mike Tyson, a young Muhammad Ali, the way he talks.

Demetrious Johnson

StyleMeAppreciateFightingYoung

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