Design Quotes

The maker movement is about people who want to gain more control of the human design world that they interact with every day. Instead of accepting off-the-shelf solutions from institutions and corporations, makers would like to make, modify, and repair their own tools, clothing, food, toys, furniture, and other physical objects.

~ Mark Frauenfelder

Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish.

~ Billy Graham

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?

~ Mary Astell

Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.

~ Charles Eames

Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.

~ Dieter Rams

At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.

~ Daniel Day-Lewis

The universe is so unique and perfect that it could not have originated by chance but was divined by flawless, creative design.

~ Fritz Zwicky

The evidence in this universe for design - or, if you will, the fine-tuning that cannot be explained by chance or by 'enough time' - is so compelling that the only way around it is to suggest that our universe is only one of an infinite number of universes.

~ Dennis Prager

I believe that human beings are born first and given passports later. I'm really thankful for my journey. And it's a journey I didn't design.

~ Alfonso Cuaron

Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical knowledge. Aesthetics and economics, technology and psychology are intrinsically related to the process.

~ Paul Rand

NPR editors and journalists found themselves caught in a game of trying to please a leadership team who did not want to hear stories on the air about conservatives, the poor, or anyone who didn't fit their profitable design of NPR as the official voice of college-educated, white, liberal-leaning, upper-income America.

~ Juan Williams

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

~ Friedrich August Von Hayek

Wellness is not a 'medical fix' but a way of living - a lifestyle sensitive and responsive to all the dimensions of body, mind, and spirit, an approach to life we each design to achieve our highest potential for well-being now and forever.

~ Greg Anderson

Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different.

~ John Hockenberry

Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health.

~ Robert Evans

Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods.

~ Genevieve Gorder

For me, the sound design and the musical score is a big part of what makes scary movies work.

~ James Wan

For businesses, biomimicry is about bringing a new discipline - biology - to the design table. It's not to write an environmental impact statement, as most biologists in business do right now.

~ Janine Benyus

But my point is that you design something in the end that precludes any unhealthy trading practices that are not going to serve your environmental or your economic objectives but now is not the time to do it.

~ John Anderson

Ultimately, auto designers need to overcome market challenges with innovative design solutions. The automotive industry is at a turning point with environmental and economic conditions on one side and breakthrough technology on the other, so it will be fascinating to see how these design leaders envision the future.

~ Charles Pelly

Ever since I was a little girl, I wanted Valentino to design my wedding dress. Valentino is the definition of timeless elegance. I don't think there's another couture house like it.

~ Nicky Hilton