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Selecting the Best Stock Images To Enhance Your Designs
Cheesy stock images are prevalent. The stock images you choose for use in your designs need to be effective and visually attractive. Know what to look for when adding stock images to your designs- and what to avoid.
Effective Visual Communication is Crucial for Your Brand
Utilizing effective visual communication can make or break your brand. Rules of visual communication should be applied to all forms of creative branding.
The Accidental Unicorn: How I Became A Designer Who Loves to Code
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Quotes about Design for Creative Inspiration
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Joan Jett Reputation Quote
Partly, I like a bad reputation. But I also want a reputation of being a good person. – Joan Jett Reputation Quote
Free WordPress Plugins to Enhance your Website
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You May Be A Designer If…
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What Web Designers Do
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Dating A Designer: 10 Things To Know
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Fake Websites from Law & Order
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Drunk Tank Pink • Studies in Color Design
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Random Cool Design Links: best practices in web design.
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Elizabeth Perez | Fahrenheit 451 Book Cover
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Reasons To Date A Graphic Designer
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About
My name is Jessie & this is my blog. I live just outside of Kansas City. I rant about all kinds of things, like design, books, art, poetry, music, true crime & much more.
My name is Jessie & this is my blog.
I live just outside of Kansas City.
I rant about all kinds of things, like design, books, art, poetry, music, true crime & much more.
If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with.
— Dorothy Gale, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum
But if you hold me without hurting me, you’ll be the first who ever did
— Lana del Rey, Cinnamon Girl
Why, she had never had to do a thing for herself in all her life. There had always been someone to do things for her, to look after her, shelter and protect her and spoil her. It was incredible that she could be in such a fix. Not a friend, not a neighbor to help her. There had always been friends, neighbors, the competent hands of willing slaves. And now in this hour of greatest need, there was no one. It was incredible that she could be so completely alone, and frightened, and far from home.
All had suffered crushing misfortunes and had not been crushed. They had not been broken by the crash of empires, the machetes of revolting slaves, war, rebellion, proscription, confiscation. Malign fate had broken their necks, perhaps, but never their hearts. They had not whined, they had fought. And when they died, they died spent but unquenched. All of those shadowy folks whose blood flowed in her veins seemed to move quietly in the moonlit room.
Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.
— Lemony Snicket
The only benefit of her generalized anxiety disorder was that it prepared Hope for the Worst-Case Scenario; she was never surprised when one materialized because the Worst-Case Scenario was where she spent most of her time.
— Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch
Death was in the room and she had no strength to confront it, to fight it back and she was frightened. She wanted someone strong to stand by her and hold her hand and fight off death until enough strength came back for her to do her own fighting.
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
— Anaïs Nin
For a timeless time, she lay still, her face in the dirt, the sun beating hotly upon her, remembering things and people who were dead, remembering a way of living that was gone forever—and looking upon the harsh vista of the dark future.
Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset.
— S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
— Coco Chanel
In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.
— Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
“Yes, I want money more than anything else in the world.”
“Then you’ve made the only choice. But there’s a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It’s loneliness.”
I'd love to wear a rainbow everyday, & tell the world that everything's okay. But until we start to make a move to make a few things right, you'll never see me wear a suit of white.
— Johnny Cash, Man in Black
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
— Plato
What makes us love whom we love; what makes us choose to do what we do?
— Susan Jane Gilman, Donna Has Left the Building
This is the problem with human relationships: you come to a person with one feeling and they’re having another.
— Melissa Broder, Death Valley
I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures. ...We tell the story to get them back, to capture the traces of footfalls through the snow.
— Gail Caldwell, Let’s Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship
I wondered if we were born with something broken inside us. Maybe it was in the deepest marrow of our bones, some place we couldn't see or touch. Maybe that's why we couldn't love each other the way we were supposed to.
— Lucy Rose, The Lamb
The window was wide, she could see the dogs come running, saying, wait, we swear
we'll love you more and holy, Jezebel. it's we, we that you are for- only.
— Iron & Wine, Jezebel
Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
— Anaïs Nin
I love mankind… it’s people I can’t stand.
— Charles M. Schulz
Little girls don’t kill people. They’re just silly little girls. But almost no one understands a little girl. We begin hard as marbles.
It's not really what happens to you that matters as much as who you become in response to those things.
— Katherine Center, The Lost Husband
I’m lost. And it’s my own fault. It’s about time I figured out that I can’t ask people to keep me found.
— Anne Sexton
Once my heart was filled with the love of a girl,
I held her close but she faded in the night,
like a poem i meant to write...
— Simon & Garfunkel, Leaves That Are Green
What was it with me? Why could I never, ever feel like I belonged anywhere?
— Katherine Center, The Lost Husband
“The pain. It’s worth it. The more you love, the more it hurts. But it’s worth it. It’s the only thing that is.”
— Amy Harmon, Where the Lost Wander
Things might get very bad, things might be worse than she ever imagined, but the stars existed, and that was something.
— Amanda Coplin, The Orchardist
But now I'm confused. Is this death really you?
And do these dreams have any meaning?
No. No, I think it's more like a ghost that's been following us both.
Something vague that we're not seeing,
Something more like a feeling.
— Bright Eyes, Something Vague
Always do what you are afraid to do.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“She’s in the love business but love ain’t been kind to her."
— Larry McMurtry, Comanche Moon
It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.
— Rose Kennedy
He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.
— Leo Tolstoy
Oh, if only God did not seem so furious and vengeful! Oh, if only the minutes did not go by so slowly and the house were not so still! If only she were not so alone!
'You can’t make me mad by calling me names that are true. Certainly I’m a rascal, and why not? It’s a free country and a man may be a rascal if he chooses. It’s only hypocrites like you, my dear lady, just as black at heart but trying to hide it, who become enraged when called by their right names.'
As long as I can I will look at this world for both of us. As long as I can I will laugh with the birds, I will sing with the flowers, I will pray to the stars, for both of us.
— Sascha
Enthusiasm can help you find the new doors, but it takes passion to open them. If you have a strong purpose in life, you don't have to be pushed. Your passion will drive you there.
— Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
— Charles Bukowski
You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book, or you take a trip, and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death. Some never awaken.
…the sad part is, that I will probably end up loving you without you for much longer than I loved you when I knew you. Some people might find that strange. But the truth of it is that the amount of love you feel for someone and the impact they have on you as a person, is in no way relative to the amount of time you have known them.
