#sign

When my daughter was young, she thought all electronic signs were mine. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

#electronic #mine #she #signs #thought

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#interpretation #past #significance #us

Evil turned out not to be a grand thing. Not sneering Emperors with world-conquering designs. Not cacklikng demons plotting in the darkness beyond the world. It was small men with their small acts and their small reasons. It was selfishness and carelessness and waste. It was bad luck, incompetence and stupidity. It was violence divorced from conscience or consequence. It was high ideals, even, and low methods. ↗

— Joe Abercrombie

#design

To be awarded a prize which takes its name from an illustrious Dutchman who at the same time was a great citizen of Europe and through his writings did so much to open up our modern world of sensibility and thought is indeed a most signal honour. ↗

— John G. D. Clark

#citizen #did #europe #great #his

Early this morning, I signed my death warrant. ↗

— Michael Collins

#early #i #morning #signed #warrant

There is no clear sign that the economy is turning the corner in a meaningful way. ↗

— Charlie Dent

#corner #economy #meaningful #meaningful way #sign

Design is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing. ↗

— Jonathan Ive

#come #design #mean #much #nothing

I was signed at 19 years old to a major label, and dropped by the time I was 22. ↗

— Nate Ruess

#dropped #i #label #major #major label

We had grain but no mills, so I designed a special mill of wood so we could make flour. ↗

— Mikhail Kalashnikov

#designed #flour #grain #had #i

If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#captured #consider #duress #ever #i