Designer Quotes - Page 25

• Maybe careers aren’t something you can really plan for. They just sort of happen, like brown eyes or flat feet. I took one of those career aptitude tests last year, and it showed that I should be a flight attendant or a seamstress. Not a fashion designer or anything, mind you, but a sweatshop worker. Apparently stewardesses and sweatshop workers and I enjoy a lot of the same interests and activities.

  Susan Juby

  Fashion, Eye, Years

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• ...and motioned me toward a spot next to a middle-aged Moroi in a very formal and very designer black suit. The suit screamed, I'm sorry the queen is dead, and I'm going to look fashionable while showing my grief

  Richelle Mead

  Queens, Sorry, Grief

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.247, Penguin

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• At their best, religious and spiritual communities help us discover this pure and naked spiritual encounter. At their worst, they simply make us more ashamed, pressuring us to cover up more, pushing us to further enhance our image with the best designer labels and latest spiritual fads, weighing us down with layer upon layer of heavy, uncomfortable, pretentious, well-starched religiosity.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Spiritual, Religious, Community

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• That furniture cost me a fortune! It's designer furniture." "Designed by whom ? Darth Vader ? The Hitler Youth ?

  Jennifer Crusie

  Cost, Furniture, Youth

  Jennifer Crusie (2010). “The Cinderella Deal”, p.109, Bantam

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• What is the worst is a fashion designer who talks all the time of his or her creativity, what they are, how they evolved. Just do it and shut up.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Fashion, Creativity, Shut Up

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• I have my own theory about why decline happens at companies like IBM or Microsoft. The company does a great job, innovates and becomes a monopoly or close to it in some field, and then the quality of the product becomes less important. The company starts valuing the great salesmen, because they’re the ones who can move the needle on revenues, not the product engineers and designers. So the salespeople end up running the company.

  Walter Isaacson

  Running, Jobs, Moving

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Walter Isaacson Great Innovators e-book boxed set: Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Einstein”, p.692, Simon and Schuster

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• Dear designer of questionable intent, Please send me a photo of yourself. Please be wearing the knitted pants that you designed. It's not that I don't believe that there is anyone out there thing enough to wear horizontally stripped trousers knit from chunky wool, it's just that I would like to know whether you are deliberately cruel or whether you are the one woman these would look really great on.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Believe, Wool, Looks

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• But give up my business? The same business I'd built from the ground up with my own two hands and designer Louis Vuittons? The same business for which I'd sacrificed blood, sweat, and tears? Well, maybe not sweat and tears, but there was blood. Lots of blood. Give it up? Not likely. Besides, what else would I do? I totally should've gone to Hogwarts when I had the chance.

  Darynda Jones

  Giving Up, Sweat, Two

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Third Grave Dead Ahead”, p.36, Macmillan

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• This is about Ku’Sox, isn’t it,” I said, more of a statement than a question. He made a sighing groan, and I knew it was. “Then you’ve met,” he said, his thoughts clearly on the day-walking demon. “Funny, you don’t look dead.” His hand touched my chin, shifting it so he could see where I’d been pixed, the blisters itchy and red. “I’m surprised you survived the little designer dump. I nearly didn’t.

  Kim Harrison

  Hands, Looks, Littles

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• Design is really an act of communication, which means having a deep understanding of the person with whom the designer is communicating.

  Donald A. Norman

  Communication, Mean, Deep Understanding

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• I don't need designer things. And YOU are designer, Rush.

  Abbi Glines

  Needs

  Abbi Glines (2014). “Rush Too Far: A Rosemary Beach Novel”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• Reyes leaned back against the bar, crossed his arms over his chest, and studied me from beneath those same ridiculously long lashes. Men and their freaking lashes. It was so unfair. Like the exorbitant cost of designer shoes. Or world hunger.

  Darynda Jones

  Men, Shoes, Long

  Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.401, St. Martin's Press

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• Design must be proved before a designer can be inferred.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Design, Religion

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Richard Herne Shepherd (1810). “The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley ... Ed. ... by Richard Herne Shepherd”, p.315

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• The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

  Milan Kundera

  Change, Dream, Fashion

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• To see things in black and white is to see the basics, and I would recommend to any designer of gardens that he go out and look at his work by the light of the moon.

  Eleanor Perenyi

  Work, Black And White, Moon

  Eleanor Perenyi (2010). “Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden”, p.142, Modern Library

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• Can a physicist visualize an electron? The electron is materially inconceivable and yet, it is so perfectly known through its effects that we use it to illuminate our cities, guide our airlines through the night skies and take the most accurate measurements. What strange rationale makes some physicists accept the inconceivable electrons as real while refusing to accept the reality of a Designer on the ground that they cannot conceive Him?

  Wernher von Braun

  God, Real, Airplane

  Letter to California State board of Education, September 14, 1972.

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• The great challenge for the garden designer is not to make the garden look natural, but to make the garden so that the people in it will feel natural.

  Lawrence Halprin

  Beauty, Garden, People

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• Fashion has become a joke. The designers have forgotten that there are women inside the dresses.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Dresses, Forgotten

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• I was stigmatized by being a bridal designer for a long time. I am amazed I have been able to move beyond it. I had really all but given up trying, but I did it because it was my lifelong dream.

  Vera Wang

  Dream, Fashion, Moving

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• Fashions fade, style is eternal. - Yves Saint-LaurentThe most important thing to remember is that you can wear all the greatest clothes and all the greatest shoes, but you've got to have a good spirit on the inside. That's what's really going to make you look like you're ready to rock the world. - Alicia KeysIt's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together.

  Alexander McQueen

  Fashion, Shoes, Clothes

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• Any possible universe could be explained as the work of some sort of designer. Even a universe that is completely chaotic...could be supposed to have been designed by an idiot.

  Steven Weinberg

  Evolution, Idiot, Chaotic

  "A Designer Universe?". Article by Steven Weinberg, www.physlink.com. April, 1999.

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• The more statistically improbable a thing is, the less we can believe that it just happened by blind chance. Superficially, the obvious alternative to chance is an intelligent Designer.

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, Intelligent, Alternatives

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• The surroundings householders crave are glorified autobiographies ghost-written by willing architects and interior designers who, like their clients, want to show off.

  T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings

  Vanity, Want, Clients

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• Courtrooms contain every symbol of authority that a set designer could imagine. Everyone stands up when you come in. You wear a costume identifying you as, if not quite divine, someone special.

  Irving Kaufman

  Special, Costumes, Imagine

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• I believe God created the world for a purpose. The Designer of intelligent design is, ultimately, the Christian God.

  William A. Dembski

  Christian, Believe, Intelligent

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