Famous Quotes & Sayings

Max Azria

For me, one of the biggest designers is Azzedine Alaia. Everything he is doing is fantastic.

Mary Davis

I'll probably try to do a horse design. Something simple.

Paquin Estrada

I let the game run its course, but I already have my design in my head. I know that in the late innings there's going to be more pressure, but it was designed for the pressure and knowing my people can do it. When you have these kinds of people, you can't let the pressure get to you. Use intelligence.

Dries van Noten

I'm a fashion designer, not a shoe designer. I like to design clothes.

Martin C. Smith

The interior follows the same direction as the exterior design.

Robert Bacarella

Their work on the design side of semiconductors is strong. They are growing faster than their peers and they have a lot of movement and momentum right now.

Neal Stephenson

It is exciting to discover electrons and figure out the equations that govern their movement; it is boring to use those principles to design electric can openers. From here on out, it's all can openers.

Neal Stephenson

...your Web browser is Ronald Reagan.

Neal Stephenson

Crappy old OSes have value in the basically negative sense that changing to new ones makes us wish we'd never been born.

Linda Duessel

The performance of dividend-paying stocks has more to do with the fundamentals in their industries.

Francis Bacon

The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

Ernst Mayr

It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science.

Henry David Thoreau

Linnæus, setting out for Lapland, surveys his "comb" and "spare shirt," "leathern breeches" and "gauze cap to keep off gnats," with as much complacency as Bonaparte a park of artillery for the Russian campaign. The quiet bravery of the man is admirable.

Robert Sheckley

So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even. But I don't say that I consciously wrote with humour. Humour is a part of you that comes out.

William Herschel

... finding that in [the Moon] there is a provision of light and heat; also in appearance, a soil proper for habitation fully as good as ours, if not perhaps better who can say that it is not extremely probable, nay beyond doubt, that there must be inhabitants on the Moon of some kind or other?

William Herschel

He broke through the barriers of the skies.

William Herschel

I have looked farther into space than ever a human being did before me.

William Blake

Execution is the chariot of genius.

William Cowper

Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the strata there Extract a register, by which we learn, That he who made it, and reveal'd its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age.