Famous Quotes & Sayings

Diane von Furstenberg

I never like to think that I design for a particular person. I design for the woman I wanted to be, the woman I used to be, and - to some degree - the woman I'm still a little piece of.

Bronson Pelletier

I'm getting offered roles that aren't designed for aboriginal people; they're designed for anybody. It's pretty surreal and mind-blowing.

Calvin Klein

People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.

Evan Williams

Twitter was designed to be this system that you just scan for information that's important or useful to you and then walk away, and if you wanna take a break you take a break.

When I met Dante I didn't work in the movies, but I enjoyed so much the movies. I worked in interior design and when I met Dante, we tried to do something together.

Gary Hamel

At the pinnacle of great design are products so gorgeous and lust-worthy that you want to lick them: a Porsche 911, Samsung's Luxia TV, an Eames lounge chair or anything by Loro Piana.

Greg Lynn

It turns out it's not rocket science to design a sacred space.

Burt Rutan

The most impressive airplane ever, I believe, was designed only a dozen years after the first operational jet. Stayed in service till it was too rusty to fly, taken out of service. We retreated in '98 back to something that was developed in '56. What? The most impressive spaceship ever, I believe, was a Grumman Lunar Lander.

Cynthia Rowley

I try to look at design from a more conceptual standpoint.

Stephen Hawking

As Irving Good realised in 1965, machines with superhuman intelligence could repeatedly improve their design even further, triggering what Vernor Vinge called a 'singularity.'

Carl Honore

Aficionados of Slow design and Slow fashion use ethical and green materials to make objects - furniture, clothes, jewellery - that lift the spirit and last a lifetime rather than one catwalk season.

Antoine Predock

Anything I do informs how I design. I wouldn't isolate any one activity. Everything I do feeds back to my life, and my life is expressed in my work.

This will enable us to do the design in-house.

The parking lot on the north side of Second St. will have the same design as the one being constructed on the south side of the street.

Marty Schottenheimer

To be able to do what they have done in an era in which everything is designed to get people to be .500 win-loss percentage, and they go out and win three championships in four years, to me that's remarkable.

The play wasn't designed to go to me, it was just whoever got open. They tripled-teamed me and did a good job of getting their hands on it.

Danny Granger

The play wasn't designed for me. I thought we were going to get a five-second call. I just went and got the ball, but there wasn't much I could do with it. He (Wallace) knew we needed a three, so he knew I wasn't going to drive by him. There just wasn't much there.

David Rose

There are already a lot of devices in our lives that have rich text or the ability to handle graphics. Our devices are designed to be understood in less than a quarter of a second.

When you go to a site, you usually run into usability problems pretty quickly. They're not hidden. They're not complicated. They're not baffling. They were in the design or crept into the design.

We've got to do things differently if we're going to reform our schools. You've got to stretch kids. State tests were never designed to be the end line. They've got to keep being reformed. In the quest to raise standards, you may have lowered them for other students.

This roundabout we have under design is going to be constructed in a way that will work. It will be wide enough for the hay trucks and the emergency vehicles. We're not reinventing the wheel.

John Murphy

This researched and thoughtfully designed garden can be a source of healing for those suffering from a number of mental and physical limitations.

There is a big difference in this facility regarding the parking and storage of vehicles. We designed the route to have mostly driver side turns for safety issues.

We keep thinking these designer dogs are just a fad, but year after year goes by, and they're still popular.

We think that it's a good design. It also speeds up the process.

We've designed our units so you can drive right inside to unload. A car, truck, even a semi will fit inside -- and that's a real convenience when you're working in our often harsh Minnesota winters.

We've designed it and prepared ourselves that if we have to multi-tenant it we will.

To me, the design drawing shows it should have been at minus 17. I don't know what (the LSU team) is doing and how they're getting minus 10. We're looking into it.

This tool is designed to solve a very real problem. What we hope is the folks it was designed for will embrace it as quickly as possible.

We don't want to be known as the 'Intelligent Design University,' ... We don't think this is science.

Kurt Vonnegut

They say, you know, about evolution, it surely happened because their fossil record shows that. Look, my body and your body are miracles of design. Scientists are pretending they have the answer as how we got this way when natural selection couldn't possibly have produced such machines.