“If this party has a message, it has done a hell of a job of hiding it tonight.”
James Carville
more infosource: CNN, August 25, 2008
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“Everything has a message…Everything is the product of the mind. Everything that is ugly is the product of ugly minds. Beauty is a by-product of intellectual elegance.”
Massimo Vignelli
more infosource: “A Design Life Force,” by Ralph Gardner, The Wall Street Journal, March 11, 2011.
category: beauty, design, elegance, message, ugly
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“A poem, as a manifestation of language and thus essentially dialogue, can be a message in a bottle, sent out in the—not always greatly hopeful—belief that somewhere and sometime it could wash up on land, on heartland perhaps. Poems in this sense too are under way: they are making toward something.”
Paul Celan
more infosource: quoted in Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew by Josh Felstiner (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press), 115.
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category: language, message, poetry
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“Still and all, why bother? Here’s my answer: Many people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people don’t care about them. You are not alone.'”
Kurt Vonnegut
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