Hamad Bader > Hamad's Quotes

“I have little interest in illustration, which lacks a kind of transcendental quality. It is too literal. I find typography more straightforward, conceptual, and appealing, with its strict geometric vocabulary. There is a bridge between typographic design and fine art, especially since typography possesses a complex subtlety. The idea, the method, and the honesty in expression are central to a designer who works with type.”
― Timothy Samara, Typography Workbook: A Real-World Guide to Using Type in Graphic Design

“Some time around 1932, Adolf Loos, the noted Viennese architect, said, “There is a great difference between an urn and a chamber pot, and in this difference there is leeway for culture.”
― Timothy Samara, Design Elements: A Graphic Style Manual

“Simplicity, clarity, complexity, and ambiguity are not mutually exclusive states in language; the sensitive typographer is one who can manifest these states in the right mix by controlling the elements at his or her disposal.”
― Timothy Samara

“My nighttime forays tend toward the fantastical, toward dreams that place one outside of conventional time and space. This, I have concluded, is because I read so much.”
― Cynthia Swanson, The Bookseller

“In that other life, I am the center of my world. Of course, I love and care about other people—many other people. But at the end of the day, my thoughts and actions are mainly about managing my own life and my own emotions. Here,”
― Cynthia Swanson, The Bookseller

“If the butterfly wings its way to the sweet light that attracts it, it's only because it doesn't know that the fire can consume it.”
― Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches

“It begins with absence and desire.
It begins with blood and fear.
It begins with a discovery of witches.”
― Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches

“They say love warms the soul, but it burns it sometimes, too.”
― Jordan Weisman, Cathy's Ring

“The whole point of love is that it happens now. Here. Between daybreak and nightfall.”
― Jordan Weisman, Cathy's Key

“My mom is a black-no-sugar woman, but I basically believe in turning my coffee into cheesecake.”
― Jordan Weisman, Cathy's Key

“I pegged him as the kind of jock that has a thing for smart girls. You see these guys, second-stringers on the football team; they stand around the edges of the Jock Huddle listening to raunchy talk about cheerleaders, but they fall for the smart girl with library eyes.”
― Jordan Weisman, Cathy's Book

“In that intense stillness, the old man laughed. "You have a good eye," he said. "Someone taught you to see.”
― Jordan Weisman, Cathy's Book

“Touch with your eyes, Cathy. Handle things with them, so you can tell by looking if they are rough, or slick, or damp and soft, like mushrooms. You have to cry with your hands, and laugh with it, and let it sing, You have to see with your heart. You have to see with your heart.”
― Jordan Weisman, Cathy's Book

“Cathy, you burn like a candle in the dark." Victor titled up my face with his fingers. "All your life, people are going to see that, even from far away, even in the middle of the night, and they are going to come to you." He touched my damp cheek, still wet with tears. I could feel my skin flushing against his fingers, "They are going to want to add your light to theirs," he said "And every night ends, and then it's morning, and the sun comes up.”
― Jordan Weisman, Cathy's Book

“Great art is like that. You can think you're a real hard-ass, with no use for artsy-fartsy jazz and then one of the greats hits you like a bullet though the heart. People talk about Tiger Woods, or Michael Jordan but if you really want to see a dude playing above the rim, spend half an hour looking at Picasso's from between the wars. The greats don't just want to score they want to dunk in your face.”
― Jordan Weisman, Cathy's Book

“Maybe you think a lot about the past, when you haven't got much future in front of you.”
― Jordan Weisman, Cathy's Book

“Without us, the world is just things, Cathy. It's our seeing that fills them with meaning. To pay attention is a painter's scared duty. That's what real prayer is. real meditation: to hold your attention to the world like a match, until it catches with the fire of meaning.”
― Jordan Weisman, Cathy's Book

“Emma told me once that baking powder was an act of love, invented by a chemist for his wife, who was allergic to yeast.”
― Jordan Weisman, Cathy's Book

“It was just past midnight and I was trudging through the St. Louis Greyhound station, a grim building obviously brought to you by the people who design high school bathrooms.”
― Jordan Weisman, Cathy's Key

“He was what she had always needed her father to be.”
― Jordan Weisman, Cathy's Key

“To most rich people, money is power." I opened the door and got out of the truck. "That's what's cool about Emma," Pete said. "She's totally into money, but she isn't like that at all. Money isn't power to her."
"What is it?"
He thought about it for a second, then grinned. "Lego," he said.”
― Jordan Weisman, Cathy's Key

“Still life." What a lie. Life isn't still. Death is.”
― Jordan Weisman, Cathy's Key

“Licking the powder off my fingertips I decided that bravery was overrated. Sometimes sugar is just as good.”
― Jordan Weisman, Cathy's Key

“Ah, Time.
Nobody knows better than a portrait artist that time marks us, it nicks us up and leaves us looking used, like a well-traveled suitcase or a favourite book.”
― Jordan Weisman, Cathy's Key

“I thought about what an intensely human act it was to get a tattoo, taking an image or a slogan, some stray momentary emotion, and cutting it into your body so that it could never heal and never be erased.”
― Jordan Weisman, Cathy's Key

“He said that mixing an omelet was a lot like mixing paint: the eggs were my basic palette, and then I could build tastes out of whatever ingredients I had around.”
― Jordan Weisman, Cathy's Key

“Victor looked at me with troubled eyes. "Your life is a journey to a destination I can't even imagine. I can give you a lot of things, I can give you money and safety and all my heart... but maybe that isn't what you really need." He stirred, looking out into dusk. "Maybe company on the journey is the only thing that matters."
The last thin edge of the sun slipped into the sea and darkness seeped into the valley. "I do know I will love you forever," Victor said. "And forever, for me, is a very long time.”
― Jordan Weisman, Cathy's Key

“The hands were beautiful, deft and wise: hands for steadying a bicycle, for pouring milk into a cereal bowl, hands for putting on Band-Aids and ruffling your hair.”
― Jordan Weisman, Cathy's Key

“My anger turned small and hid. It was like that kid feeling you get when you are sad or hurt or lonely and you scream or cry to your parents and they crush you with their grown up feelings. Rage as big as the sky. Loneliness like an ocean you could drown in. Huge grown up feelings that annihilate you where you stand.”
― Jordan Weisman, Cathy's Key

“I’ve been accused of being cold, snobbish, distant. Those who know me well know that I’m nothing of the sort. If anything, the opposite is true. But is it too much to ask to want to protect your private life, your inner feelings?”
― Grace Kelly