Designing Quotes

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Frank Lloyd Wright designed the house I was living in. From what I understood, he was having an affair with the wife of the man he was designing the house for. That man was very tall. So Wright, short and vain, designs the house in such a way that a tall person couldn`t live in it without severe cranial damage. I hit my head *all* the time.

- Donald Sutherland

(On how he got started in the business) "I started in theatre, my first job was designing sets. I didn`t know what I was doing, but I had a talent for making dramatic sets; I had been a painter for years. The first play I did, I got the job because I had built the set! And I didn`t even know I got the lead part. The key thing to remember in this business is that they don`t invite you in, but once you`re in they won`t kick you out. So start small and it will grow."

- Lance Henriksen

It`s not about doing over the living room of someone who has bad taste in color. This is about restoring historic buildings and instilling pride in a community, which can be done through designing new public spaces and social gathering spots.

- Genevieve Gorder

He saw I had talent and he wanted to keep me in the business, whether it was through dancing or designing,

- Michelle Lombardo

The best part about designing and working in the ballroom dance business is when a lady who might not feel so good about herself puts on a gown and her eyes light up, ... They feel like a Cinderella at the ball, or they feel like a princess or a bride walking down the aisle. When they look in the mirror, that`s the most satisfying part of my job.

- Michelle Lombardo

I had built stuff my entire life, so I was designing and building and taking drafting. I would watch plays and got real interested in performing.

- Skeet Ulrich

During Designing Women I went and did Love Letters a few times, but that was it. Aside from that, I hadn`t done a play since drama school.

- Delta Burke

John Schlesinger had one of his friends designing it and he had never done a film before. Ten days before it started, they didn`t have any costumes. I was rung up and joined up.

- Julie Harris

In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good also often feels good.

- Michael Graves

In designing the jeans we considered both function and fashion. The result is a uniquely functional, yet stylish, great fitting jean.

- Robert Hanson

I appreciate the sentiment that I am a popular woman in computer gaming circles; but I prefer being thought of as a computer game designer rather than a woman computer game designer. I don`t put myself into gender mode when designing a game..

- Roberta Williams

I`ve been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

- Vera Wang

Designing Woman was written for the screen.

- Vincente Minnelli

I was asked to do a play the other day, and I turned it down because I couldn`t do both. And, all of a sudden, I got really scared. But I couldn`t really take it on and go to all the designing meetings I have to and all the casting meetings. We have designers now but no cast.

- Blair Brown

I`m still designing, and I`m loving it.

- Monica Lewinsky

Our line is going to be different from other celebrity lines in that we are really designing it.

- Tina Knowles

When you include the issues that can occur during the processing and distribution stages as well as transport, designing an ocean cargo policy that addresses the full scope of potential pitfalls can be a formidable task. The broad, automatic features and streamlined reporting process offered through Cargo Elite makes it an ideal product for importers and exporters.

- George Butler

My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.

- Steve Wozniak

It is designing for thousands of people. It`s always a joy when visitors enjoy a property and want to return.

- Evan Williams (Dancer)

Knowing who the actors were as you were designing them helped, with Catherine`s beauty and Renee`s frailty, they directed me visually just by who they were.

- Colleen Atwood

You would never get away with designing an aircraft as noisy and fuel inefficient as the Concorde in the early days of the 21st Century,

- Paul Jackson

I started to design the collection by designing the fabric. ... I had some antique fabrics that I had developed into new fabrics, and then introduced reflective materials into the fabrics,

- Narciso Rodriguez

I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn`t endure.

- Robin Day

I`m a hardcore gamer and would never let you down by designing a crappy title.

- John Romero

I completely love playing and designing games and always will. I am so into games that I listen to game music all day. That may sound strange, but you can guarantee I`m a hardcore gamer and would never let you down by designing a crappy title.

- John Romero

"The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation '“ enlightened as it is '“ if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men." -Samuel Adams

- Sam Adams

The whole idea of designing a vessel like a sub in my first year of college really interested me.

- Matt Young

The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don`t realize are computers at all.

- Ahmed Abdel Rahman

Since I sort of invented the editor that was most complicated, I thought I would compensate by also designing the editor that was most simple.

- Al Sowers

At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they`re designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler.

- Alan Sypert

We can`t manipulate some stars while maintaining other stars as controls; we can`t start and stop ice ages, and we can`t experiment with designing and evolving dinosaurs.

- Ali Aoun

The house of Austria has publicly used every effort to deprive the country of its legitimate Independence and Constitution, designing to reduce it to a level with the other provinces long since deprived of all freedom, and to unite all in a common sink of slavery.

- Allison Baker

Yeah, just designing stuff, but I don`t think there`s any big difference between chairs, cars, jewelry or anything. It`s all design.

- Alvin Teng

I was much more interested in making things than in designing them.

- Alvin Teng

If I was designing a web site for elementary school children, I might have a much higher percentage of older computers with outdated browsers since keeping up with browser and hardware technology has not traditionally been a strong point of most elementary schools.

- Amar Stoudemire

We were looking at the space when we were designing the whole suite of galleries, and we noticed that the ceiling was so tremendously high that we could easily make two floors of it. So what we did -- instead of the original idea of mixing decorative arts and paintings from the 12th century onward -- we have more or less separated the decorative arts from the paintings.

- Andrianne Hann

She doesn`t have the shop any longer, but she is still doing interior designing and will help us here.

- Arthur Tucker