T Quotes
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“The desertion of Jesus, by his followers, furnishes an argument in support of the supposition that he attempted to be king of the Jews, rather than that he was a superior being.”
Source: The collected works of Lysander Spooner
“The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.”
Source: A land of our own: an oral autobiography
“The deserving are not always blest. That peculiar attribute known as personality is as potent a factor as genius.”
“The deserving ones are not employed while those who are incapable are enjoying all the wealth of the nation. This is the first chapter of corruption.”
“The design and creative side is not a problem, but learning how to run a company as a young creative has been challenging. There is so much more on the business side than I ever considered when I first started making jewelry in my kitchen. It has been a challenge keeping up with the company's success, and I have had to learn from my and others' mistakes as I go.”
“The design industry is really pathetic.”
“The design intention behind the current industrial infrastructure is to make an attractive product that is affordable, meets regulations, performs well enough, and lasts long enough to meet market expectations”
Source: Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
“The design is a really flat primary color with all sorts of abstract geometric shapes, just implying something. And then you'd have your characters running from something with guns. It was very expressionistic.”
“The design is done when the problem goes away.”
“The design is mine. The daring, yours.”
Source: The Aeneid
“The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer.”
Source: The Log from the Sea of Cortez
“The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of the writer. This is completely understood about poetry or fiction, but it is too seldom realized about books of fact. And yet the impulse which drives a man to poetry will send another man into the tide pools and force him to try to report what he finds there.... It would be good to know the impulse truly, not to be confused by the 'services to science' platitudes or the other little mazes into which we entice our minds so that they will not know what we are doing.”
Source: The Log from the Sea of Cortez
“The design of a city is like a strange archeology.”
“The design of a dress, furniture, a house, a room, a street and a city are all the same process.”
“The design of a restaurant should embrace the identity of the chef, the nature of the cuisine, and the context of the restaurant itself.”
“The design of a temple depends on symmetry, the principles of which must be most carefully observed by the architect.”
“The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair.”
“The design of everyday things is in great danger of becoming the design of superfluous, overloaded, unnecessary things.”
Source: The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition
“The design of good houses requires an understanding of both the construction materials and the behavior of real humans.”
“The design of redemption is to exhibit the grace of God in such a manner as to fill all hearts with wonder and all lips with praise.”
Source: Understanding Your Blessings in Christ: Ephesians
“The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.”
Source: A Serious Proposal to the Ladies
“The design of the building addresses the public nature of both the urban context and the internal program. In order to reinforce the building's associative or mimetic qualities, the facades are organized in a classical three-part division of base, middle or body, and attic or head.”
“The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.”
“The design of the notorious Palm Beach County "butterfly ballot" in the 2000 Presidential election is certainly one of them. But I would say most of the time this is less about a conscious attempt to manipulate an outcome, and more about pure ineptitude.”
“The design process is about designing and prototyping and making. When you separate those, I think the final result suffers.”
“The design process, at its best, integrates the aspirations of art, science, and culture.”
“The design should make the product speak to you.”
“The designated driver program, it's not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing it, drop them off at the wrong house.”
“The designated hitter rule is like letting someone else take Wilt Chamberlain's free throws.”
“The designation is useful and necessary and sometimes limiting but it is only limiting to people who think, for example, that African-American literature couldn't possibly be something they could be interested in or relate to. They have limited imaginations, which is sad.”
“The designation of the locality in one excludes the appearances narrated by the rest; the determination of time in another leaves no space for the narratives of his fellow-evangelists; the enumeration of a third is given without any regard to the events reported by his predecessors; lastly, among several appearances recounted by various narrators, each claims to be the last, and yet has nothing in common with the others. Hence nothing but wilful blindness can prevent the perception that no one of the narrators knew and presupposed what another records.”
“The designed purpose of marriage is to illustrate metaphorically God's relationship to his people... A marriage is complex, and fails if it lacks a crucial part. A marriage cannot rightly depict God's relationship with his people if it lacks faithfulness, or pleasure, or fruitfulness - or sex difference. The metaphor demands it.”
Source: Born Again This Way
“The designer [...] has a passion for doing something that fits somebody's needs, but that is not just a simple fix. The designer has a dream that goes beyond what exists, rather than fixing what exists. [...] The designer wants to create a solution that fits in a deeper situational or social sense.”
“The designer has an obligation to provide an appropriate conceptual model for the way that the device works. It doesn't have to completely accurate but it has to be sufficiently accurate that it will help in both the learning of the operation and also dealing with novel situations.”
“the designer music shop that sold status cymbals.”
Source: The Satyrist...And Other Scintillating Treats
“The designer must think first and work later.”
“The designer must understand that form does not follow function nor does form follow a production process. For every use and for every production process there are innumerable equally attractive solutions.”
“The designer of a new kind of system must participate fully in the implementation.”
“The designer of today re-establishes the long-lost contact between art and the public, between living people and art as a living thing.”
Source: Design as art
“The designer shouldn't think of a simple dichotomy between errors and correct behavior; rather, the entire interaction should be treated as a cooperative endeavor between person and machine, one in which misconceptions can arise on either side.”
“The designer side of me has many ideas on how the shoes or woman should look, but the man is thinking 'would I want to see my girl in those shoes?'”
“The designer's job is to imagine the world not how it is, but how it should be.”
“The designer's role in the development, application and protection of the trademark may be described as pre-creative, creative and post-creative.”
“The designers [of the 1930s] were populists, you see; they were trying to give the public what it wanted. What the public wanted was the future.”
“The designers of the international economy sternly demand that the poor accept market discipline, but they ensure that they themselves are protected from its ravages, a useful arrangement that goes back to the origins of modern industrial capitalism and played a large role in dividing the world into rich and poor societies, the first and third worlds.”
Source: Hopes and Prospects
“The designers usually don't like to say until we're on the runway. Like when I did Prada last year, I couldn't mention doing Prada or even Tweet or take a picture and put it on Twitter saying I was backstage at the Prada show. And Dolce was the same thing. They like to keep a little surprise, I guess, a little secret for everybody.”
“The designers, photographers and models I work with, they are really hard-working people who are devoting their lives to fashion. They're kind of like nuns of fashion.”
“The designs and my credit have been stolen from me, since I alone have designed the Alien. So why does Fox not give me the credit I rightfully earned? As for those responsible for this conspiracy: all I can wish them is an Alien breeding inside their chests, which might just remind them that the Alien father is HR Giger.”
“The designs are more about the whole thing rather than the details, and if I were to do the big shapes I do, color would maybe be too much. Pink or red would push it all over the edge.”
“The designs of the paper euros, introduced in 2002, proclaim a utopian aspiration. Gone are the colorful bills of particular nations, featuring pictures of national heroes of statecraft, culture and the arts, pictures celebrating unique national narratives. With the euro, 16 nations have said goodbye to all that.”