William Morris Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I think a woman should be wholesome, voluptuous and sizzling!
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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
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No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
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Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.
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How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
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I should have died in ambushes a hundred times.
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When I graduated from Parsons School of Design, the dean at that time said I would never be a designer. Obviously I didn't listen.
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People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.
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I design flats like I design heels: They must be seductive, beautiful and comfortable.
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I love designing bridal. I do not follow trends - I design dresses that are relevant to the times.
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Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
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Trying to design the perfect plan is the perfect recipe for disappointment.
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Bigotry should never be sanctioned, whether intentionally or unintentionally.
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Design certainly has a cosmetic, aesthetic aim. It always aims at making things beautiful. But relevance is just as important. I often say, 'If it isn't ethical, it can't be beautiful. But if it isn't beautiful, it probably shouldn't be at all.'
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Religious liberty should be a bipartisan issue.
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I have high hopes that GIS will become increasingly relevant for landscape architects as we make the tools easier to use for the design process of just inventory and mapping.
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The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.
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Health care is a design problem. Dependence on foreign oil is a design problem. To some extent, poverty is a design problem. We need design thinkers to solve those problems, and most people who are in positions of political power are not design thinkers, to put it mildly.
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Design, to me, is part psychology, part sociology, and part magic. A good decorator should know what's going on in someone's marriage and how their kids are doing in school.
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A collection of plants is not a landscape, any more than a list of choice words is a poem. The merit is in the design, not the material it is expressed in, and the best designs, like the best poems, make ordinary material significant by its arrangement.
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The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
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Now will I show myself to have more of the serpent than the dove; that is, more knave than fool.
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No pattern should be without some sort of meaning.
