Barefoot Contessa

Quote of The Day

2012-12-15T13:04:00.001+01:00

" There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills. "

Lust for Life

2012-12-15T12:59:00.001+01:00

Repetition

2012-12-15T12:04:00.000+01:00

Photo of The Day

2012-12-15T11:57:00.000+01:00

Enter

2012-11-02T17:40:00.001+01:00

Photo of the Day

2012-10-24T21:18:00.001+02:00

Quote of the day

2012-10-17T21:54:00.003+02:00

Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.

Mary Shelly

Quote of The Day

2012-10-12T19:13:00.000+02:00

" May you live every day of your life. "
-Jonathan Swift

Designer Diaries

2012-10-07T00:16:00.002+02:00

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Steve Jobs

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.
Paul Rand

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.
Niklaus Wirth

Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.
Thomas J. Watson

To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need.
Charles Eames

Quote of the Day

2012-10-06T23:27:00.001+02:00

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.
Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Indulgence

2012-09-21T22:39:00.000+02:00

Quote of The Year

2012-09-21T22:31:00.003+02:00

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win

Mahatma Gandhi

Photo of The Day

2012-09-06T21:33:00.002+02:00

Quote of The Day

2012-08-19T23:36:00.000+02:00

If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point.
Antonio Porchia

Quote of the Day

2012-07-02T23:05:00.000+02:00

If We’re Growing, We’re Always Going To Be Out Of Our Comfort Zone

John Maxwell

Thun, Switzerland - the place where magic lives

2012-06-24T12:27:00.000+02:00

Quote of the Day

2012-06-23T12:02:00.000+02:00

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi

Photo of the Day

2012-06-21T21:10:00.001+02:00

Quotes I Fancy

2012-06-08T23:00:00.002+02:00

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
Mahatma Gandhi

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
Mahatma Gandhi

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
Mark Twain

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
Aristotle

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
Leo Tolstoy

Photo of the Day

2012-06-08T17:55:00.001+02:00

Bella Notte

2012-06-03T10:11:00.000+02:00

Quote of the Day

2012-06-02T12:39:00.000+02:00

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
Mahatma Gandhi

The Measure of All Things

2012-06-01T23:09:00.000+02:00

When the solution is simple, God is answering.
Albert Einstein

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Albert Einstein

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
Abraham Lincoln

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
William Shakespeare

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.
Mahatma Gandhi

Where love is, there God is also.
Mahatma Gandhi

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
Mahatma Gandhi

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
Mahatma Gandhi

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
Mahatma Gandhi

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
Mahatma Gandhi

We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.
Muhammad Ali

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way."
C. S. Lewis

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
C. S. Lewis

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.
Maya Angelou

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Quote of the Day

2012-06-01T13:33:00.000+02:00

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

William James

Quotes I Fancy

2012-05-23T12:58:00.001+02:00

“I get bored without color in a room. Interesting, strong, clear colors are easier to live with in the long run than pale colors. People always think it’s the opposite, but in actuality soft colors get boring much quicker.” – Richard Keith Langham

“You never want to match your walls to a color in one of your fabrics. It will be too strong. Find a grayed-out version of the color.” –Sallie Giordano

“The perfect wall color is seldom the prettiest shade on the fan deck. Give that slightly drab stepsister shade a go-it will be far more interesting.” – Robin Bell