George Pendle quotes
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“I have been collecting pictures of airport carpets since the early 2000s because I am fascinated by their role as the world's largest interior visual design medium.”
-- George PendleSource : Source: www.cnn.com
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“An airport carpet can tell you everything about its surroundings!”
-- George PendleSource : Source: www.cnn.com
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“Hard floorings such as marble, wood, terrazzo and linoleum, have become fashionable of late, but I believe they create a characterless "international" style that is as opposed to interpretation as it is repellent to the foot.”
-- George PendleSource : Source: www.cnn.com
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“Airport carpets are so much richer to both the senses and the intellect.”
-- George PendleSource : Source: www.cnn.com
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“If airports can be seen as temples to travel, gateways to other worlds, then airport carpets are the vast prayer mats upon which we all genuflect.”
-- George PendleSource : Source: www.cnn.com
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“If the Internet can be described as a giant human consciousness, then viral marketing is the illusion of free will.”
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“Feathers! spluttered Sargatanas. Feathers are for the birds, my boy. Flaking, peeling, scale-ridden wings, now that's what real beings wear. I'll tell you a secret. He said, and drew me closer. The eternal pain at having known Paradise and lost it is priceless. I wouldn't swap it for anything.”
-- George Pendle
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“Stations and airports are rehearsals for separations by death.”
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“When you are lying drunk at the airport you're Irish. When you win an Oscar you're British.”
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Source : "The Doctrine of Chances: Or, A Method of Calculating the Probabilities of Events in Play".
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“Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay.”
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Source : "Design for knife: can cutlery help people with disabilities?" by Justin McGuirk, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2012.
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