I got £25. My friends all gave me £5. It was a very thoughtful present.
When I design something, I think of it as a gift to somebody else.
A gift isn't a gift unless it has meaning. Just giving things to people, especially children, create the expectation of more things.
Books are my very favorite gift to give. If you give a book to someone and they really respond to it, you feel you've actually changed their life in some way.
Practical gifts are another great way to be thoughtful, and they work for anything from birthdays to dinner-party gifts.
The first gift my husband ever gave me was a pack of index cards. I'm pretty sure the second was a 'Powers' scriptbook. This was well before either of us worked for Marvel.
I like fruit baskets because it gives you the ability to mail someone a piece of fruit without appearing insane. Like, if someone just mailed you an apple you'd be like, 'huh? What the hell is this?' But if it's in a fruit basket you're like, 'this is nice!'
A good gift celebrates the relationship between the giver and the receiver. When you open that box, you feel like, 'Wow, you really understood me.' At the same time, you think this gift could come only from that person.
A gift shouldn't feel like homework.
I am the guilty gift-giver, which means that I am a gift-giver who lacks all sense of proportion.
I know my mom always likes to give the over-the-top 'wow' pieces at baby showers.
The best gifts are those we not only cherish but put to use.
I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet that could be bought!
Questions are like gifts - it's the thought behind them that the receiver really feels. We have to know the receiver to give the right gift and to ask the right question. Generic gifts and questions are all right, but personal gifts and questions feel better.
