Famous Quotes & Sayings

William McDonough

I think as designers we realize design is a signal of intention, but it also has to occur within a world and we have to understand that world in order to imbue our designs with inherent intelligence.

William McDonough

If we think about things having multiple lives, cradle to cradle, we could design things that can go back to either nature or back to industry forever.

William McDonough

Modern culture appears to have adopted a strategy of tragedy. If we come here and say, I didn't intend to cause global warning, it's not part of my plan, then we realize it's part of our defacto plan because it's the thing that's happening because we have no other plan.

William McDonough

The problem carbon is that everyone thinks we have an energy problem, we don't. We have plenty of energy. We have a carbon problem. Carbon is a material, so we have a material problem, not an energy problem.

William McDonough

The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live.

William McDonough

Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good.

William Kristol

If we free the people of Iraq, we will be respected in the Arab world... and I think we will be respected around the world.

William Law

Feasts and business and pleasure and enjoyments seem great things to us, whilst we think of nothing else; but as soon as we add death to them they all sink into an equal littleness.

William Jennings Bryan

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

William Jennings Bryan

Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard.

Virginia Woolf

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Virginia Woolf

Now to sum it up,' said Bernard. 'Now to explain to you the meaning of my life. Since we do not know each other (though I met you once I think, on board a ship going to Africa), we can talk freely. The illusion is upon me that something adheres for a moment, has roundness, weight, depth, is completed. This, for the moment, seems to be my life. If it were possible, I would hand it you entire. I would break it off as one breaks off a bunch of grapes. I would say, "Take it. This is my life.

Virginia Woolf

I want to think quietly, calmly, spaciously, never to be interrupted, never to have to rise from my chair, to slip easily from one thing to another, without any sense of hostility, or obstacle. I want to sink deeper and deeper, away from the surface, with its hard separate facts.

Virginia Woolf

How then did it work out, all this? How did one judge people, think of them? How did one add up this and that and conclude that it is liking one felt, or disliking?

Virginia Woolf

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Virginia Woolf

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Virginia Woolf

You can't think how I depend on you, and when you're not there the colour goes out of my life.

Virginia Woolf

In fact, though their acquaintance had been so short, they had guessed, as always happens between lovers, everything of any importance about each other in two seconds at the utmost, and it now remained only to fill in such unimportant details as what they were called; where they lived; and whether they were beggars or people of substance.

Virginia Woolf

I will achieve in my life - Heaven grant that it be not long - some gigantic amalgamation between the two discrepancies so hideously apparent to me. Out of my suffering I will do it. I will knock. I will enter.

Virginia Woolf

And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking.

Virginia Woolf

There are moments when one can neither think nor feel, she thought, and if one can neithre feel nor think, where's one?

Virginia Woolf

My notion's to think of the human beings first and let the abstract ideas take care of themselves.

Violette Leduc

I was and I always shall be hampered by what I think other people will say.

Violette Leduc

We are talking. It's a shame. What is said is murdered. Our words that will not grow any bigger or any lovelier will wilt inside our bones. Words wither feelings.

Virender Sehwag

As for my batting, the best part about it is I have never changed it. I have never changed my thinking, I have never changed my batting style.

Vincente Minnelli

But I think musicals are going to have to deal with important subjects.

Vinoba Bhave

We have seen from experience that, if we are in the habit of walking regularly on the same road, we are able to think about other things while walking, without paying attention to our steps.

Vinoba Bhave

Do not allow yourself to imagine that revolutionary thinking can be propagated by governmental power.

Violante Placido

Eventually, I think cinematography for every culture is a way to explore different stories, different ways of also delivering a story.

Vincent D'Onofrio

I've never played a master thief. And I think I am one.

Virat Kohli

I don't think one can question MS' leadership

Virat Kohli

There are two bowlers who I think are very tough to play against - Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel.

Vinnie Jones

If all else fails, you could wait for the first corner and tie his dreadlocks to the goalpost.