Paula Scher Quotes

New Zealand looks like the future to me ~ Paula Scher

It took me a few seconds to draw it, but it took me 34 years to learn how to draw it in a few seconds. ~ Paula Scher

The work needs to get out of your head and on to the table, and it needs to be done from the heart. ~ Paula Scher

Great design is serious, not solemn ~ Paula Scher

Be culturally literate, because if you don't have any understanding of the world you live in and the culture you live in, you're not going to express anything to anybody else. ~ Paula Scher

Beige is the color of indecision. ~ Paula Scher

I don't think of design as a job. I think of it as - and I hate to use this term for it - more of a calling. If you're just doing it because it's a nice job and you want to go home and do something else, then don't do it, because nobody needs what you're going to make. ~ Paula Scher

Find out what the next thing is that you can push, that you can invent, that you can be ignorant about, that you can be arrogant about, that you can fail with, and that you can be a fool with. Because in the end, that's how you grow. ~ Paula Scher

You need to be able to ride past the technology by understanding what it can do, who you are, and where you want to take it. You don't want technology to lead you; you want to lead it, but it's very hard to do that when you're in the middle of it. ~ Paula Scher

I love the big scale and immediate impact of posters. They're my favourite things to design. ~ Paula Scher

Whatever you design[/make/build], use it to raise the expectations of what can be achieved ~ Paula Scher

Helvetica is the font of the Vietnam War. ~ Paula Scher

Identities are the beginning of everything. They are how something is recognized and understood. What could be better than that? ~ Paula Scher

All maps are distorted, they are not literal fact. ~ Paula Scher

The best way to accomplish serious design ... is to be totally and completely unqualified for the job. ~ Paula Scher

Your name is Windows. Why are you a flag? ~ Paula Scher

The goal of design is to raise the expectation of what design can be ~ Paula Scher

What you do is look at yourself and find your own way to address the fact that the times have changed and that you have to pay attention. You can't be a designer and say, "Oh, this is timeless". ~ Paula Scher

I didn't answer him and didn't open my eyes, and there was a moment of perfect vertigo, when I heard the whooshing of the surf again and felt I was part of it, swirling with it and also standing still, swept up an sewn into the sea and into the universe, but also very, very alone. ~ Paula McLain

It sucks that it takes losing something important to make some people realize they need to change, but unfortunately that's how it is. ~ Paula Stokes

She pressed his amulet to her lips, then let it fall on its chain to rest between their two bodies. "We could leave here," she said to him. "We could run away together."
He frowned at the stars, the bubble of peacefulness that had settled around them after their lovemaking now ruptured. "I run from nothing and no one. ~ Paula Altenburg

The only person I did bondage for was Irving Klaw and his sister Paula. Usually they would shoot four or five models every Saturday. He wouldn't pay for the regular pictures unless we did some bondage. So I did bondage shots to get paid for the other photos. ~ Bettie Page

My parents have always been there to really support anything I wanted to do or learn - they provided the opportunity for me. I was very blessed in that sense. ~ Paula Creamer

I've decided that perhaps I'm bulimic and just keep forgetting to purge. ~ Paula Poundstone

He was such an enigma, really - fierce and strong and weak and cruel. An incomparable friend and a son of a bitch. In the end, there wasn't one thing about him that was truer than the rest. It was all true. ~ Paula McLain

He lit another cigarette and inhaled deeply, the tip flaring an angry red. Isn't love a beautiful goddamn liar? ~ Paula McLain

When I look at Tom, I thank God that he found me, too, that I was there to rescue him from that woman. She'd have driven him mad in the end, I really think that - she'd have ground him down, she'd have made him into something he's not. ~ Paula Hawkins

...the past shooting out at me like sparrows for the hedgerow, startling and inescapable. ~ Paula Hawkins

On the street, it was dark in the way only Africa can be. ~ Paula McLain

Making African American films are hard in Hollywood. We need to rely on a support network and bring more cohesion to different filmmakers, actors, producers etc. It's a very difficult business. There aren't a lot of Africans Americans or people of color in high positions in Hollywood that we can green-light films. ~ Paula Patton

I get inspiration from things that have nothing to do with painting: caricature, items from newspapers, sights in the street, proverbs, nursery-rhymes, children's games and songs, nightmares, desires, terrors ... That question [why do you paint?] has been put to me before and my answer was, 'To give terror a face.' But it's more than that. I paint because I can't help it. ~ Paula Rego

That is why my pictures don't look like modern art. It's some sort of timidity on my part I'm sure. ~ Paula Rego

You on the train and me here and everything emptier now you're gone. Tell me, are you real? ~ Paula McLain

Thank God for books, for validating your feelings, and letting you know you're not alone. ~ Paula Gruben

My acting career began when I walked into a drama school class run by Anna Scher in Islington. Anna discovered a lot of people: Linda Robson, Pauline Quirke, Gary and Martin Kemp, and Dexter Fletcher were among my contemporaries. ~ Phil Daniels

The Philadelphia Story, but ~ Paula McLain

Rose lived the same life I did, but she doesn't have PTSD. No bad dreams, no missing memories. Sometimes I'm jealous that she seems to deal with everything better than I do. But then I'll catch her with this hollow look in her eyes and think maybe she just disguises everything for my benefit.
Maybe she's broken on the inside too. ~ Paula Stokes

What I wouldn't have given for this moment to be happening without her fucking boyfriend there. ~ Paula Garner

............ Dead and gone before he reached his thirtieth birthday, but still leaving behind more than Crow could ever hope to have. ~ Paula Marinaro

In my house, the Rose Parade and the Rose Bowl Game have always been a grand tradition for ringing in the New Year. To serve as Grand Marshal is a dream come true and I look forward to sharing the celebration with all of the fans and viewers worldwide. ~ Paula Deen

Sometimes being poor means having to choose between your principles and your survival. ~ Paula Stokes

For all of those willing to help me start a family, I am flattered. I will let you know when I need your help. ~ Paula Abdul

Love is blind, but marriage is a real eye-opener. ~ Paula Deen

I don't try to intellectualize characters too much. But I always think of the audience. I always make sure that my characters are likeable. ~ Paula Patton

I felt isolated in my misery. I became lonely, so I drank a bit, and then a bit more, and then I became lonelier, because no one likes being around a drunk. I lost and I drank and I drank and I lost. ~ Paula Hawkins

The police think I'm a rubbernecker. They think I'm a stalker, a nut-case, mentally unstable. ~ Paula Hawkins

And if I tried to talk to him or, God forbid, ask him to take it easy on the whisky, he'd lash out. "Oh, sod off, Beryl. It's all easy for you, isn't it? ~ Paula McLain

I have a lot of secret uses for sour cream, which is the magic ingredient in my mac and cheese. It's an old-timey, Southern version, and the sour cream makes it that much creamier. Oh, it's so good! ~ Paula Deen

Knowing he was suffering pained me. That's the way love tangles you up. I couldn't stop loving him, and couldn't shut off the feelings of wanting to care for him - but I also didn't have to run to answer his letters. I was hurting, too, and no one was running to me. ~ Paula McLain

I am a big, big geek at heart and a Sci-fi fan. And I love the Comic-Cons. ~ Paula Garces