Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isambard K. Brunel

I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Lebanese mezze, Cantonese dim sum and Basque pinchos have all evolved over years and are designed to make sense together.

William McDonough

I think the job of an original designer is to inspire.

Donatella Versace

Women are all the same; we want to be smaller in the waist, longer legs, slimmer. I design for women and their defects, to make them better.

David Carson

The dreaded phrase in design circles is 'show and tell.'

David H. Murdock

Success isn't something you achieve by accident, but rather by design.

Donald Norman

Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone.

Donald Norman

I prefer design by experts - by people who know what they are doing.

Darell Hammond

Just as playgrounds didn't even make the priority list of most of those responding to Katrina, they all too often slip off the radar of those building our schools, designing our neighborhoods, and drafting government budgets.

Nina Easton

Presidents can be judged by the company they choose to keep.

Bill Vaughan

In foreign affairs, the president can do what he wants unless Congress says no. In domestic policy, the president can't do anything unless Congress says yes.

Bill Vaughan

In the wiretapping, despite all the momentum for a more assertive Congress, you're seeing Congress backing down, because there are many Republicans and even Democrats who are afraid of being seen as preventing the president from protecting the nation.

Howard Dean

We know that the president wasn't truthful with us when he sent us to Iraq,

Elaine Sanchez

Typically, the president is on a very tight schedule.

Donald Powell

Today the president is requesting another $1.5 billion.

Tom Ridge

will be a president we can respect and we can trust.

John Kasich

We aren't going to do this alone, ... We're going to go out there and tell the president 'look, the ball's in the president's hands.'

Donald Rumsfeld

The president has not suggested that that is going to be needed,

Ivar Giaever

Science is to find something unknown, while invention is to make something new out of the known theory.

Ivar Giaever

'Incontrovertible' is not a scientific word. Nothing is incontrovertible in science.

David Hanson

I was always into science fiction as a kid. I loved science and tinkering with things.

William Gibson

Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes.

Carl Sagan

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Its goal is to find out how the world works, to seek what regularities there may be, to penetrate to the connections of things-from subatomic particles, which may be the constituents of all matter, to living organisms, the human social community, and thence to the cosmos as a whole.

Carl Sagan

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

Carl Sagan

When a honeybee dies it releases a death pheromone, a characteristic odour that signals the survivors to remove it from the hive. The corpse is promptly pushed and tugged out of the hive. The death pheromone is oleic acid. What happens if a live bee is dabbed with a drop of oleic acid? Then no matter how strapping and vigourous it might be, it is carried kicking and screaming out of the hive.

Carl Sagan

The usual rejoinder to someone who says 'They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Galileo' is to say 'But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown'.

Carl Sagan

I'd like the [Cosmos] series to be so visually stimulating that somebody who isn't even interested in the concepts will just watch for the effects. And I'd like people who are prepared to do some thinking to be really stimulated.

Albert Einstein

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. On being reproached that his formula of gravitation was longer and more cumbersome than Newton's.

Peter Brimelow

I think the Iraq War is not particularly tailored to American interests.

Isak Dinesen

Truth is for tailors and shoemakers. I, on the contrary, have always held that the Lord has a penchant for masquerades.

Jay Baruchel

I'd say that the No. 1 attribute you need as an actor is to be malleable. You need to be able to change and tailor what you're doing to what the situation dictates.

John Ford

Sister, look ye, How, by a new creation of my tailor's I've shook off old mortality.

William Banting

My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put on my former clothing, over what I now wear, which is a thoroughly convincing proof of the remarkable change.

Waris Ahluwalia

I travel a lot, and I hunt for fabrics, then I have the tailor make me something.

Yao Ming

When I was young, we were taught not to dunk. We were taught not to stand out from the rest of the team. It's different now.

Etel Adnan

We were taught to think that Paris was the center of the universe.

William Shakespeare

You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse

B. F. Skinner

I've often said that my rats have taught me much more than I've taught them.

Esai Morales

My mother taught me when you go someplace, you leave it better than you found it.

William Shakespeare

Highly fed and lowly taught.

Dan Hawkins

I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.

Leonard Cohen

I taught him how to dress. He taught me how to live forever.

Christopher Gorham

I taught at a cotillion. I was one of the teenage helpers when I was in high school. But we're talking very basic.