Design Quotes

• So if I design it and then go away, it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me.

  

  Marc Newson
  • Design

• If any man whatsoever hath carried on the design of deposing the King and disinheriting his posterity; or if any man hath yet such a design he should be the greatest traitor and rebel in the world; but, since the Providence of God hath cast this upon us, I cannot but submit to Providence.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • World
  • God
  • Men

• Every step, every effort, every test, every fall and every recovery has a sense within God’s design for salvation, as He wants life – not death – and joy – not pain – for His people … This doesn’t mean that he did everything and we don’t have to do anything.

  

  Pope Francis
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• We have contributed through Indian culture; so many international collections are Indian-inspired. Why we don't make an international impact? We have talent, but we have not leveraged it, not married commerce to design.

  

  Priya Sachdev
  • Why
  • Culture
  • Inspired

• Luck is the residue of design.

  

  Branch Rickey
  • Design
  • Luck

• Good design for the home should be universal. A house should be like old shoes, comfortable, like a good friend... The Japanese aesthetic is important to me. Very organic. They have a sense of the weight of the thing: very balanced.

  

  Elsa Peretti
  • Good
  • Important
  • Home

• I'm so fond of abstract design in the style of Vanderbilt and David Hicks and that whole 1970s era. They took the 1930s and gave it a bit of technicolour.

  

  Jenny Packham
  • Style
  • Design

• To be able to design for the plus-sized consumer, for me, that's just beyond. It's a dream.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Dream
  • Design

• I design for the use of a building and the place and for the people who use it... the reputation for arrogance comes because when work is offered to me, I look whether I can find a genuine interest in quality.

  

  Peter Zumthor
  • People
  • Work
  • Quality

• I like to hike and cook. I enjoy furniture and design - not making it, just looking at it. I'm always kind of trying to spread my interests around and try new things.

  

  Kevin Bacon
  • Trying
  • Design

• If you're writing a screenplay for a feature, you don't have any involvement with the casting process, the editing process, the set design, the costume design, or any of that stuff.

  

  David Benioff
  • Writing
  • Design

• Intelligent design is just the Logos theology of John's Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory.

  

  William A. Dembski
  • Intelligent
  • Theology
  • Idiom

• The world is moving into a phase when landscape design may well be recognized as the most comprehensive of the arts. Man creates around him an environment that is a projection into nature of his abstract ideas. It is only in the present century that the collective landscape has emerged as a social necessity. We are promoting a landscape art on a scale never conceived of in history.

  

  Geoffrey Jellicoe
  • Moving
  • Abstract
  • Collectives

• I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation.

  

  Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.
  • Up
  • Funny
  • Team

• I grew up in a small town in Washington State, so I wasn't really aware of costume design as a career growing up, but I loved clothes. I remember I saved all my money, and the first thing that I bought was a white blazer, which was to the horror to my parents. But I have always had a strange connection with clothing.

  

  Colleen Atwood
  • Up
  • Money
  • Remember

• The Japanese garden is a very important tool in Japanese architectural design because, not only is a garden traditionally included in any house design, the garden itself also reflects a deeper set of cultural meanings and traditions. Whereas the English garden seeks to make only an aesthetic impression, the Japanese garden is both aesthetic and reflective. The most basic element of any Japanese garden design comes from the realization that every detail has a significant value.

  

  E. J. W. Barber
  • Important
  • House
  • Garden

• When we changed from Tiger to Nike, we had to have a design for the shoe. And where do you go to? There's no 'dial 9-1-1' for design.

  

  Phil Knight
  • Design
  • Tiger

• If design is the first signal of human intention.

  

  William McDonough
  • Humans
  • Firsts
  • Intention

• Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Time
  • Small
  • Play

• It is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of Deity throughout the whole of nature.

  

  Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Nature
  • Design

• Well, yes, I mean, I think that, you know, my sources suggest that there's a lot of support for the notion that there is a lot of Koran abuse and that it was very much a systematic design, not just an aberration.

  

  Jane Mayer
  • Support
  • Design
  • Abuse

• I love jotting down ideas for my blog, so I doodle or take notes on all kinds of stuff that inspires me: the people I meet, boutiques I visit, a florist that just gave me a great idea for an interior-design project, things like that.

  

  Maria Sharapova
  • People
  • Great
  • Design

• So much of it is the design of the shot or the motion of the character; it's the work you do so that it has the same things that are in the movie. In just a few frames it's got to communicate something clearly and dramatically.

  

  Dennis Muren
  • Work
  • Character
  • Movie

• In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

  

  Charles Eames
  • Design
  • Architecture

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