#very

It's a very strange thing for a designer to say, but one of the things that really irritates me in products is when I'm aware of designers wagging their tails in my face. ↗

— Jonathan Ive

#designer #designers #face #i #irritates

My father was a very good craftsman. He made furniture, he made silverware and he had an incredible gift in terms of how you can make something yourself. ↗

— Jonathan Ive

#father #furniture #gift #good #had

It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America. ↗

— Molly Ivins

#constitution #country #established #everyone #extend

Every great inspiration is but an experiment. ↗

— Charles Ives

#experiment #great #inspiration

I use a Bruce Lee technique: 'The way of no way.' He had the idea that he would learn everything, so that whoever he had to fight, he could improvise anything. The best way of starting a gig is just to not think of anything - to clear your mind, not in an empty Zen state, but more just to go on and see where you go. ↗

— Eddie Izzard

#best #best way #bruce #bruce lee #clear

I'd be happy to be taken as a woman - and that's what I was initially trying to do when I started throwing on dresses and stuff. But that wasn't going to happen because everyone kept calling me sir. So I thought I'd change the method and just start wearing what I wanted to wear. ↗

— Eddie Izzard

#because #calling #change #dresses #everyone

If there is a God, his plan is very similar to someone not having a plan. ↗

— Eddie Izzard

#having #his #plan #similar #someone

My mom and dad put my brother and sister through university and they were very keen for us to have an academic background just to give us a chance. ↗

— Rob James-Collier

#background #brother #brother and sister #chance #dad

Everybody needs somebody. ↗

— Mahalia Jackson

#everybody #needs #somebody

I fed them every day. So it was a papa that kept food on the table for them. I did that. I did my part. ↗