Quotes from Douglas Wilson

I've had rooms that didn't come out to my liking.

You have to put your own personality into your home. Do what you feel is you!

I was supposed to be the antithesis of Frank.

If boys don't learn, men won't know.

A man penetrates, conquers, colonizes, plants. A woman receives, surrenders, accepts.

If no God, mankind is a set of bi-pedal carbon units of mostly water. And nothing else

Wealth is a gift from God, and pride is bequeathed to us from the devil.

For the people of God, the Word of God leaves pleasant bruises.

God picks us up where we are, not where we should have been

If you keep the law of God, you are not described in Scripture as a pinched legalist, but rather as happy (Prov. 29:18).

Little did we know it would be watched by millions of people and break viewing records.

I'm opinionated. I always stick to my design plan. I don't waver.

There is no such thing as a guilty pleasure.

I see the same coffee table everywhere. It's mass marketing.

Throughout the country, I see the same design problems and solutions over and over.

Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.

I'm opinionated. I always stick to my design plan. I don't waver.

In two days, it's hard to to get the quality you would normally want for a design project.

Being in the design industry, I've tended to meet more people who are affected by HIV and AIDS.

Use plants to bring life.

I look at each episode in two ways - from a design standpoint and from an entertainment standpoint - this is TV, after all. We usually succeed on at least one of the levels.

I gave the couple a hint of a design that would work great with the bones of their home. They weren't ready for it, and they embarrassed themselves and that's too bad.

Your writing advances a particular view of the world. Pretending that it does't just confuses everybody, starting with you.

The brain is not a shoebox that 'gets full,' but rather a muscle that expands its capacity with increased use. The more you know, the more you can know.