Robert Bloch Quotes

Once you find what you like, it's like it worked yesterday, it works today, it'll work tomorrow.

Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.

Puma was all about function and not at all about design. The founder of the company always believed functionality and performance were the only ingredients that could make Puma successful and design never mattered.

I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn't endure.

The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.

The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?

The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords.

I think it's a good trade to have to be versatile, to be adaptable, and be dependable, and that's one of the things that has enabled me to have the long career that I've had. It's definitely not because I'm good looking!

The goal was to have matches that would stand the test of time.

I need to be able to depend on the products I use to stand up to the demands I put on my vehicles.

A farmer's horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind. Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties...and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.

I'm not really dying today. No person ever died that had a family. I'll be around a long time. A thousand years from now, a whole township of my offspring will be biting sour apples in the gumwood shade.

I want to write books that can be read a hundred years from now, and readers wouldn't be bogged down by irrelevant details.

Over two thousand years ago, Aristotle taught us that money should be durable, divisible, consistent, convenient, and value in itself. It should be durable, which is why wheat isn't money; divisible which is why works of art are not money; consistent which is why real estate isn't money; convenient, which is why lead isn't money; value in itself, which is why paper shouldn't be money. Gold answers to all these criteria.

The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment’s silence, "Perhaps more so.

Women who just don't like each other because the other one is a woman and "women don't like each other" myth - that's not interesting to me at all. How do you compete in the market place, how you stay relevant after many years of being in the public eye - all of that. To me, that's interesting and that's real.

I figure if I keep my health, I have no intention of retiring. I love to work. I want to be like Bob Hope. I want to keep on going out and doing what I love to do. Of course, I'm no Bob Hope, but I mean that feeling that you never are old and have things to offer and can be useful to somebody. I always want to be useful, I have no intentions of retiring unless I should get sick or something should happen to my husband. Other than that I'm going to work until I fall over.

Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.

The usefulness of a pot comes from its emptiness.

Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.

There are books that I read years ago that enlivened things in me that haven't died yet.

Everything that I make I use.

There were a few people who got jobs in Limerick, a big barrel on wheels, and it was a barrel that went back and forth, and a shovel and a broom. So, they went around shoveling the horseshit into this barrel. So, you got that job when you were around 15, and then you got to retire at the age of 65, with a pension. A small pension. So that would be 50 years of shoveling horseshit. And I was advised very seriously that I should get that job.

Volvo — they're boxy but they're good.

A goodlookin horse is like a goodlookin woman, he said. They're always more trouble than what they're worth. What a man needs is just one that will get the job done.