Charles Bernard Rangel Quotes

Everyday people are not very good designers.

I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.

America is a fundamentally good country. We have good people with good values who want to do the right thing. But the structures of power that exist are working to their own ends to extend their capability at the expense of the freedom of all publics.

Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.

I'll never make it, it will never happen, because they're never going to hear me 'cause they're screaming all the time.

Part of the way the work world works is not so much creating a separation between your work and your free time, but creating the illusion of a separation between your work and your free time. Every day is the weekend for me, which means I'm always busy.

Whatever one thinks of Twitter, the Friday Reads hashtag is kind of a cool tradition.

I will say overwhelmingly what means so much more to me than the opinion of one reviewer are the letters I get from fans who tell me how a particular book has changed their life.

I think the story is my form.

It's cool when fans spend so much time making things for me. It means a lot.

With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.

Could I get a friggin' Hot Pocket around here?

I decided I wanted to be a musician when I saw the movie 'Amadeus' around 1987. I was five years old, so it was a good time to start piano lessons after seeing Tom Hulce who played Mozart play the harpsichord on his back with his hands crossed. Such a great movie to inspire a five-year-old.

Play is the exultation of the possible.

The best and most sustainable love story for markets is one based on a healthy and dynamic real economy that creates jobs and opportunities for many more people.

My label in Toronto was 'Stand Pat' and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.

I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out.

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.

Nowhere in the Hebrew Scriptures does it say that God is omnipotent.

When I exercise, I like to take lots of different classes because I want to really apply myself and feel like I'm learning a new skill. Not that I ever want to have to demonstrate any of those skills!