design quotes

• A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. (Douglas Adams) [mistake/people/design]
• I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth. (John Adams) [america/wonder/design/emancipation]
• Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it. (Miguel De Cervantes) [danger/design]
• You can dream, create, design and build the most wonderful place in the world, but it requires people to make the dream a reality. (Walt Disney) [design/people/reality]
• The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem... I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists. (Marcel Duchamp) [thoughts/thoughts/design/beauty]
• Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance. (Samuel Johnson) [design]
• Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance. (Francois De La Rochefoucauld) [men/result/design/chance]
• Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. (Jim Rohn) [happiness/future/design/present]
• I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen. (George Bernard Shaw) [design/color/beauty/art]
• If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life. (Henry David Thoreau) [design/life]
• It seems that most the world is driven by the eye, right? They design cities to look great but they always sound horrible, ... They design telephones to look great, but they sound horrible. I think it was about time that the other senses were celebrated. ( Bjork) [design/cities/look/sound]
• There were a variety of issues relating to the Q-bridge in regards to the design of it and the negotiations of the ancillary projects in the immediate area. [But] once we all got in the room together there was nothing that didn't get resolved. (Chris Cooper) [design]
• We had talked a couple of times about his last wishes to be shot out of a cannon of his own design. All I'm doing is trying to make sure his last wish comes true. I just want to send my pal out the way he wants to go out. (Johnny Depp) [design/wish]
• The movie is really a fairy tale about the guys who wrote fairy tales. It's also an excuse for Terry to create an entire world, which is what he does so well. He has his wide-angle lenses and extravagant production design. His frames are so densely packed with information. He directs like no one else. (Matt Damon) [movie/excuse/design/]
• “We'll also have a whole set of sessions on critical military communications issues. We'll look at everything from operations to engineering design to research activities.” (Ann Miller) [look/design]
• “[What she does possess in spades is a knack for pulling her design team squarely into her corner by exuding a quality as rare as black pearls in the world of style: a rigorously self-enforced humility.] I have a huge ego, let's face it, ... But at the end of the day I don't need to raise my hand and say, 'Look at me; I did this part, I did that.' ” (Gwen Stefani) [design/team/quality/literary style]
• Longhorns are unique - each and every one of them is a different color with a different design. (Janine Turner) [unique/color/design]
• I also love costume design. (Kristen Johnston) [love/design]
• “I don't set goals. Like, that's what I want to be doing however many years from now. I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's what I'd do. Or design clothes.” (Ayumi Hamasaki) [love/moment/design]
• “I wasn't acting, I think I would like to do interior design. Yeah, because you know, with the Balinese background, and being there and buying furniture, stuff like that. I love to do-up our home, so I would be an interior decorator, for sure.” (Melissa George) [think/design/being/furniture]
• “We have been screaming for bolder design for years. The consumer has too many choices. The only way to get to No. 1 is bold design.” (Michael Jackson) [design]

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