Quotes from Douglas Wilson

Use plants to bring life.

Why stress tomorrow when you can stress today?

Inexpensive is good.

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

Liars are experts in chopping logic and missing the truth slightly - 'Did God say not to eat from any tree?' In order to pin a liar down, words must be defined in the most careful manner available.

I am the young, edgy New Yorker.

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

Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.

I'm very flattered, but I don't think I'm the sexiest man on the planet.

This particular strand of feminism is characterized by two tenets: 1. men are jerks, and 2. women should strive by all means to become like them.

I've made an incredible amount of money stealing fans from homeowners.

You don't have the right to be left alone with that abortion decision. The child is present...you are not alone.

I know people dont think I work.

It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest.

What people respond to in my room makeovers is the daring design - fearless colors, bold fabrics and occasionally outlandish decor.

Immodest and attractive is easy. Modest and repulsive is easy too. But modest and attractive is an art form.

We're able to influence younger generations on design and art. They might not have realized they were an artist.

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.

Designing is a lot like a high-wire act - if the tightrope walker is only six inches off the ground, where's the excitement?

Education is the process of selling someone on books.

We cannot pursue a classical and Christian education as a fad. We are not purchasing intellectual hula hoops for the kids.

The TSA must think we're mushrooms. You know, the way they are trying to keep us in the dark, and the way they keep feeding us a fertilizing agent that comes from the south end of a north-bound cow.

God gave us minds to think with and hearts to thank with. Instead we use our hearts to think about the world as we would like it to have been, and we use our minds to come up with rationalizations for our ingratitude. We are a murmuring, discontented, unhappy, ungrateful people. And because we think we want salvation from our discontents...