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.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God tells us to make a sanctuary of our thoughts in which He can dwell.

Lady Gaga

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

A. J. Jacobs

This is what the Sabbath should feel like. A pause. Not just a minor pause, but a major pause. Not just lowering the volume, but a muting. As the famous rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel put it, the Sabbath is a sanctuary in time.

Russell Pearce

We need to fix Washington, D.C. and states need to fix their sanctuary policies. That's the problem.

Daniel Johns

There's an inherent thing in me where, if things are going too smooth, I'll sabotage the hell out of them just to make the music more of a sanctuary.

Jean de la Bruyere

I take sanctuary in an honest mediocrity.

Bob Davie

It was total devastation. When I walked up to the church, I said 'Uh oh, this is the end.' The sanctuary was just demolished.

Bible Bible

And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors.

Neil Gaiman

I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept.

Carolyn Jennings

We have all private bathrooms and all private bedrooms leading out to balconies.

Olivier Theyskens

I feel super lucky to be living in New York. I love the city, I love the energy. I always loved it. I had pictures of New York in my bedroom when I was young.

Martin Evans

I was born on the first day of January 1941 in the front bedroom of my grandparents' house in Rodborough near Stroud in Gloucestershire where my mother had come to escape the bombing in London.

Homer Simpson

You can be the first to try out the new guest bedroom I built. Remember, if the building inspector comes by, it's not a room, it's a windowbox

Becca Fitzpatrick

She shrieked. "Nora! What happened to the banister!" Good thing she hadn't seen her bedroom yet.

Hannah Storm

Even when I lost my job at CBS News, I set up shop in my youngest daughter's bedroom and started Brainstormin' Productions and the Hannah Storm Foundation. And guess who was there, visiting me and enthusiastically making business charts and graphs that covered my entire kitchen table? My dad, of course.

Lilly Singh

I still make videos in my bedroom by choice because that's the feel of my comedy, but the opportunity to make longer format content with a production company, with a team that's a bit more elevated in that sense, is really exciting for me because it's not that it's better than what I've already been doing, but it's different.

Liv Tyler

I was staying with some friends in England, and it was New Year's. My husband, Roy, and I were sleeping, and I woke to the sound of our friend's two little boys. They were going around the bedrooms opening the doors and looking in. When they got to our door, one little boy went to open it and the other said, 'No! Don?t open that door. The princess is sleeping in there.' It made my heart leap out of my chest. I think that was the first time I really realized the impact these films had on people.

John McCloskey

If all of the sudden there are ten people living next door and five bedrooms and the village code says there only has to be one parking space for a one family house and there are ten cars, then it?s definitely a concern of mine." ()