Robert Goddard // "There can be no thought of finishing, for aiming at the stars, both literally and figuratively, is the work of generations. But no matter how much progress one makes, there is always the thrill of just beginning."
Sophia Loren // "I have never judged myself by other people’s standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself."
Dieter Rams // "Good design is as little design as possible. Less but better—because it concentrates on the essential aspects...Back to purity, back to simplicity."
Sylvie Guillem // "But it's nice to imagine, nice to be crazy. If you reach a limit, it's not with your body but your mind."
J.D. Salinger // "I mean, they don't seem able to love us just the way we are. They don't seem able to love us unless they can keep changing us a little bit. They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more."
TV glasses by Hugo Gernsback (1963) // "Not only is science fiction an idea of tremendous import, but it is to be an important factor in making the world a better place to live in, through educating the public to the possibilities of science and the influence of science on life which...are not appreciated by the man on the street."
Veruschka von Lehndorff // "...we are running out of ideas because everybody is so involved with running around and making a lot of money, more than they need...They should just stop and live."
Mark Twain // "I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience."
Serge Gainsbourg // Jane Birkin
Lella + Massimo Vignelli // "If you do it right, it will last forever."
Jean Paul Sartre // "I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together?"
Stephen Jones // "These hats are my memoirs. Each one has a story to go with it – was it made in the middle of the night? Did I have a tantrum? Did I reduce the person making it to tears?"