Design Quotes

So much of it is the design of the shot or the motion of the character; it's the work you do so that it has the same things that are in the movie. In just a few frames it's got to communicate something clearly and dramatically.

Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.

So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed.

Design is people.

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, is more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

What is design? It's where you stand with a foot in two worlds - the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes - and you try to bring the two together.

So if I want to buy a light in a shop and I don't find a light that I like, I think to myself what would I like? What would I like to buy? Then I started to imagine and design it for myself a lot of the time.

All those lessons that I've learned on the court, I have applied them to my life outside of the court in business, my company, called V Starr interiors, an interior design company, and EleVen, which I wear on court.

Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art.

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

I think there is always a need for pure design. With pure design, you don't need so much decoration.

The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share.

I do love DVD and I've always taken them seriously. You know, on the Austin things, we really put a ton of work into them because there's so much design involved. And in this one, we thought a lot about it and what could go in.

I am extremely involved in the design process of both my brands, Winter Kate and House of Harlow 1960.

'Design Star' was incredible, and I didn't think it could get any better, and then 'Color Splash' happened.

While a case can be made for intelligent design, I can't figure out why some Christians are so thrilled about that possibility. First of all, it doesn't prove there's a God. If anything, intelligent design lends support to some form of pantheism that defines God as immanent within nature.

And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.

When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential.

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have.

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part of the defense authorization bill.

I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world.

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Even as a young boy, my passion was to design, and I have been very lucky to be able to do what I have loved all my life. There can be few greater gifts than that.