Designer Quotes - Page 26

• The writings of leading ID proponents reveal that the designer postulated by their argument is the God of Christianity.

  John E. Jones III

  Writing, Religion, Atheism

  "Judge Bars 'Intelligent Design' From Pa. Classes" by Laurie Goodstein, www.nytimes.com. December 20, 2005.

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• In fashion, general people will look to the piece itself. [Some designers] concentrate on, 'How can I make this seam look special?' or 'What am I going to do with that button so it looks interesting?' I am not interested in that. At the moment, I am more interested in the shape and the form. I have a big desire to make clothes without defining them.

  Raf Simons

  Fashion, Clothes, People

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• We don't do focus groups - that is the job of the designer. It's unfair to ask people who don't have a sense of the opportunities of tomorrow from the context of today to design.

  Jonathan Ive

  Jobs, Philosophical, Opportunity

  "Sir Jonathan Ive: The iMan cometh". Evening Standard Interview, www.standard.co.uk. March 12, 2012.

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• Designers + artists see potential in things where others do not. I think artists in many ways are the original entrepreneurs.

  Brian Chesky

  Artist, Thinking, Entrepreneur

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• There are many possible approaches to Australian garden design, and they all reflect the designer's individual response to gardens. For my part, I love all things most gardeners abhor... I like the whole thing to be as wild as possible, so that you have to fight your way through in places.

  Edna Walling

  Fighting, Garden, Design

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• Land mines, torture equipment, cluster bombs, chemical weapons are weapons designed to inflict pain and death on human beings. Most victims are civilians, women and children. How can arms manufacturers, weapons designers, plant managers, politicians, who have families of their own whom they love, be so insensitive when it comes to the suffering of other human beings?

  Jose Ramos-Horta

  Children, Pain, Love Is

  Jose Ramos-Horta's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1996.

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• It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature. But those who have a psssion for nature in the natural way, need no pictures nor gallereies. Spring is their designer, and the whole year their artist.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Art, Nature, Spring

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• These issues that exist among people that we are Iranian and what we need to do for Iran are not correct; these issues are not correct. This issue, which is perhaps being discussed everywhere, regarding paying attention to nation and nationality is nonsense in Islam and is against Islam. One of the things that the designers of Imperialism and their agents have promoted is the idea of nation and nationality.

  Ruhollah Khomeini

  Iran, Ideas, Issues

  Mehregan Magazine, Volume 12, Numbers 1 & 2 (p. 16), 2003.

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• I saw young women in the street dressing in a way that I thought was influencing the designers. Fashion was being influenced by all sorts of different people, and culture and also across the street. So I saw more as a trickle up, than a trickle down influence. When I came to Vogue, that's what I wanted it to reflect.

  Anna Wintour

  Fashion, People, Different

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• Designers are inherently optimistic people who try to make the world a better place

  William McDonough

  Business, Optimistic, People

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• It's one of those magical acts that is so poly-sensorial and culturally enriching that as a designer one is naturally drawn to the cult of the object

  Ross Lovegrove

  Cult, Enriching, Objects

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• I am a thorn in the side of designers.

  Robin Givhan

  Sides

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• Designers like even grayness, which is the worst thing for a reader.

  Erik Spiekermann

  Worst, Reader, Worst Things

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• I love clothes, but really I don't have that much to say about skirts. Before I was writing, I went to fashion shows only when the designer was a good friend and I was there to show support.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Fashion, Writing, Good Friend

  "Beautiful and damned" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2006.

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• A wise friend once told me, 'Don't wear what fashion designers tell you to wear. Wear what they wear.'

  Tina Fey

  Wise, Fashion, Fashion Designer

  Tina Fey (2011). “Bossypants”, p.61, Hachette UK

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• However statistically improbable the entity you seek to explain by invoking a designer, the designer himself has got to be at least as improbable. God is the Ultimate Boeing 747

  Richard Dawkins

  Boeing, Entity, Improbable

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.138, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It could be that at some earlier time, somewhere in the universe, a civilization evolved by probably some kind of Darwinian means to a very, very high level of technology- and designed a form of life that they seeded onto perhaps this planet. And I suppose it's possible that you might find evidence for that if you look at the details of biochemistry, molecular biology, you might find a signature of some sort of designer.

  Richard Dawkins

  Mean, Technology, Civilization

  "Atheist Richard Dawkins makes some startling comments on religion". www.glennbeck.com. August 27, 2012.

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• There’s one thing I will not do, ever: I will never talk to you about things you cannot change. It plants a negativity in the head of a designer or the student, and it’s a distraction.

  Tim Gunn

  Negativity, Students, Distraction

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• I've had my own moments in front of designers when I've actually said, 'You know, there's a market here for expanding your work, and here it is. And frankly, there are two markets: The women who are larger than the 12, and then there are women who are petite. And most designers that I talk to have absolutely no interest in addressing either of those populations, which I find repugnant.

  Tim Gunn

  Two, Population, Moments

  "Tim Gunn: Fashion Seems To End At A Size 12" by Ellie Krupnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 23, 2013.

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• It's funny, my girlfriends think that because I am married to a fashion designer, I get all these great tips and hints about great fashion, but it's not like that at all. He never tells me what to wear.

  Lori Loughlin

  Fashion, Girlfriend, Thinking

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• I wore the Marc Jacobs dress, so I love Marc Jacobs. He has a vintage flair. But I've always worn a lot of vintage stuff, so it hasn't been a lot of designers. If I see something that I like, I just buy it.

  Elle Fanning

  Vintage, Dresses, Stuff

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• I don't have designer clothes in my closet. I just wear them once and give them back.

  Kristin Cavallari

  Designer Clothes, Giving, Closets

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• The reason I go for the designers is because they make me feel good. It's about finding clothes that make you feel good as a woman. If I like it, I'll wear it. You have to go with your instincts and not be led by trends.

  Cheryl Cole

  Clothes, Feel Good, Trends

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• I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house.

  Eric Bogosian

  Bricks And Mortar, House, Directors

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• The role of the designer is basically that of a good host, anticipating the needs of the guest.

  Ray Charles

  Needs, Roles, Guests

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