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For me, writing Bridget's [Jones] stories is an instinctive, organic thing, which tends to happen more by accident than design.
The task of the architectural project is to reveal, through the transformation of form, the essence of the surrounding context.
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
In many respects, designing heirloom products means saying no to designing consumer crap that you know will not last very long.
The relative majesty of buildings depends more on the weight and vigour of their masses than any other tribute of their design.
Design, vitalized and simplified, will make the comforts of civilized life available to an ever-increasing number of Americans.
I have been long a sleeper; but I trust My absence doth neglect no great design Which by my presence might have been concluded.
I want to design dresses for the purposeful woman. Women who have passion - whether that be work - or something outside of work.
The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction site.
I can design a collection in a day and I always do, cause I've always got a load of Italians on my back, moaning that it's late.
In the end, color combinations come down to our personal preferences, which we must discover through observation and experiment.
My personal style icon is Steve McQueen. My design style icon is a mix of everyone from Jackie O. to Lauren Hutton to my mother.
Costume design is so important and really helpful, and I really love that aspect of character development, just figuring it out.
Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions.
Make your life a masterpiece: Step beyond the demands of the moment and begin right now to design and live the life you deserve.
Pete Dye introduced me to golf course design back in the 1960's. He came to my hometown Columbus, Ohio to work on The Golf Club.
My favorite days are the ones where I deal only with my own team, design, marketing, working on the next accessories collection.
Urban design is where the number are and easy size of installation plus the fast lessons to extend out to larger design acreage.
I attended the Columbus College Of Art & Design for a little while, until I realized they didn't take cartooning very seriously.
Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.
I'm not designing clothes for someone who is doing lines of coke off the table, like I was when I was at Gucci and Saint Laurent
I don't look at a lot of design. I try to stay focused on making sculptural art pieces and somehow translating them into design.
You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.
When I paint I do a different thing than when I design. But both involve aesthetics, both involve thought, both involve planning.
So much work went into this book [ "The Thorn & The Blossom"] - you can probably tell from looking at the art and overall design.
Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.
Is Coors Field a good park to hit in? Yeah. So are Wrigley Field and Camden Yards. I didn't design Coors Field-I just play there.
Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.
I'm always thinking about whatever game I'm working on. My brain works subconsciously on design pretty much every hour I'm awake.
In the marketplace, design is your greatest differentiator once everything becomes comparable in terms of technology and quality.
Time, designing slowly, swiftly; Time, destroying slowly, swiftly; Time holding, possessing the earth in its tender indifference.
There is an interior style we intellectuals and design policy wonks know as Haut Euro Pooftastic, which really takes the biscuit.
There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.
The reason why most people face the future with apprehension instead of anticipation is because they don't have it well designed!
I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world.
It's difficult for a company to be anywhere interesting in a world that is so dominated by prototypes and great and bright ideas.
An interior designer must be able to clarify his intent keeping ever in mind that decorating is not a look, it's a point of view.
Most business models have focused on self interest instead of user experience. Those are the kinds of problems we solve to solve.
If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
In designing Supergirl, I wanted to embrace the past but more importantly, thrust her into the street-style action hero of today.
Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health.
It was an effort to include intelligent design and treat it as science, disparaging evolution along the way. That will not stand.
When I meet celebrities, I have to know what they are like and only then can I design. The clothes have to fit their personality.
That's just tragic, that you can spend four years of your life studying the design of three dimensional objects and not make one.
If you like your remote messaging fat, dumb, and interoperable, you could also look into the SOAP libraries distributed with Ruby.
Good restaurant design is about achieving equilibrium between the food, service, and design - in effect, telling a complete story.
I like the personality of the Belgians. They're deeply eccentric, which is something that comes across in their design - terrific.
The idea of a universal mind or Logos would be, I think, a fairly plausible inference from the present state of scientific theory.
When I graduated from Parsons School of Design, the dean at that time said I would never be a designer. Obviously I didn't listen.
It is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of Deity throughout the whole of nature.