Quotes About Design

The Starship Enterprise is not a collection of motion picture sets or a model used in visual effects. It is a very real vehicle; one designed for storytelling.

Juan Bautista de Toledo

There's a Grand Designer behind everything. Your life is not a result of random chance, fate, or luck. There is a master plan. History is His story. God is pulling the strings.

You were custom-designed by God with talents, gifts, skills, and abilities in order to serve God by serving others.

A garden, as far as Teddy could see, was nature tamed and constrained by artifice.

William Morris that you should have nothing in your house that you didn't know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.

Jackson would have chosen himself. It was designed

Morris says that you should have nothing in your house that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful," she

A whole life could be contained in a dinner-service pattern

Lesson learned. To succeed as an architect in this world is to sacrifice vision to reality. The field of architecture pretends to be art, and sometimes a house design that is real and true gets recognition, but in reality, success is more often a business. A little seed of brilliance that had germinated and begun to sprout deep inside Duncan withered and died that afternoon.

Never shame your client," Billy Corrigan admonished Duncan long ago, when he had been employed as a junior draftsman only a few weeks, after his first disastrous meeting with Meg and Hank Waxman. "Always make the client feel smart and creative. Let the client think he is a design partner whose ideas fascinate and inspire you.

because the California commitment code is designed more for the well-being of lawyers than of patients, it would have been relatively easy for me to talk my way out of an involuntary commitment.

Klara, you're a new model of Artificial Friend. You're designed to be a companion to a child who's been chosen by their mother and father to be an Enhanced Child. That means they have illnesses or disabilities of one kind or another. You're a specialist in helping such children.

Fences, what are they? Stage design. That's the nice thing about England. Hedges give a sense of history properly set down in the land.

Simon's walls were covered in what looked like pages ripped from a comic book, but when I squinted, I realized they were hand drawn. Some were black-and-white, but most were in full color, everything from character sketches to splash panels to full pages, done in a style that wasn't quite manga, wasn't quite comic book.

Edgar's family believed in plans. His father had often said that you had to build the entire boat in your imagination before picking up the first piece of timber.

Everything in Tom's cathedral looked as if it was meant to be. Perhaps her life was like that, everything foreordained in a grand design, and she was like a foolish builder who wanted a waterfall in the chancel.

An Outline of European Architecture by Nikolaus Pevsner.

We design our lives through the power of choices.

Never present a power-user option in such a way that normal users must learn all about it in order to know they don't need to use it.

The real opportunity is to harness the inventive power of the world to locally design and produce solutions to local problems.

Engineers are behind the cars we drive, the pills we pop and the way we power our homes.

God designed the program of prayer as an 'apprenticeship' for eternal sovereignty with Christ.

The responsibility of an architect is to create a sense of order, a sense of place, a sense of relationship.