Billie Burke Quotes

I'm fascinated by twins. It's such an interesting thing. I'm an only child, so I don't have a sibling. But, if you think about the bond that siblings have, that intensifies so much when you think about being in the womb together.

I've always been fascinated by twins. In my forty years of photographing, whenever there was an opportunity, I would take a picture of twins. I found the notion that two people could appear to look exactly alike very compelling.

I've always been fascinated with twins.

I always had a fascination with twins.

Everyone loves twins.

Fred and George turned to each other and said together, “Wow — we’re identical!

We're twins, and so we love each other more than other people.

As a twin, I operate with twin desires.

Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

My brother Jim and I shared a womb without a view for nine months.

I always carry multipurpose products in my handbag.

I think place and time for me is often a matter of convenience, something I can use to another end rather than something I'm trying to define because it's somehow fascinating to me in itself. It's more what the place can do for the larger goals I have for the work.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

Being a twin, and knowing if my twin was gone or lost - that's a part of me. There's no way I could be the same person knowing my brother had passed away.

A painting doesn't have to have a real usability other than you looking at it. Obviously, a car, an engine, or battery has to fit people's needs.

True twins share womb chemistry and endure many fateful slings and arrows together. The fabled connection between twins is true in my case.

I suppose being his twin made me understand Robin that much more easily.

'Commercial' is not the word that has to be said only by CEOs. It has to be something that is maybe the essence of design, because design has some sort of art in it and creation, but it's also some object that you have to use. There is also this pragmatic end to it.

The special relationship between twins is that, if there's anyone else in the world that's going to get or be the confidant that you need, it's an identical twin.

Custom adapts itself to expediency.

You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world

Where a phrase is susceptible of two meanings, we ought certainly to adopt that which will bring upon us the fewest inconveniences

I am a twin, but my brother and I aren't identical, so it's not such a big deal. But when you share bunk beds and birthdays and a womb with someone, you have a special connection. It definitely feels different from the relationship I have with my other siblings - my twin and I are more connected. Jacob is a conservationist.

It seems kind of nutty to send up something new when there's something already there that can do the job.