Design Quotes — Page 35

Novelist

“Lines slip easily down the accustomed grooves. The old designs are copied so glibly that we are half inclined to think them original, save for that very glibness.”

Thinking Design Half

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Terry Pratchett

Author

“This, milord, is my family's axe. We have owned it for almost nine hundred years, see. Of course, sometimes it needed a new blade. And sometimes it has required a new handle, new designs on the metalwork, a little refreshing of the ornamentation . . . but is this not the nine hundred-year-old axe of my family? And because it has changed gently over time, it is still a pretty good axe, y'know. Pretty good.”

Years Littles Design

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Vladimir Nabokov

Novelist

“Neither in environment nor in heredity can I find the exact instrument that fashioned me, the a.non.y.muse roller that passed upon my life a certain intricate watermark whose unique design becomes visible when the lamp of art is made to shine through life's foolscap.”

Art Design Unique

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Theodore Parker

Transcendentalist, Minister

“Applying good sense to religion and religion to life. This is the field in which I design to labor”

Design Fields Labor

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Theophilus London

Rapper

“I might want to open a hotel and design all the rooms. Or maybe a museum that lets me curate all the events.”

Design Events Museums

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Saul Bellow

Novelist

“Art attempts to find in the universe, in matter as well as in the facts of life, what is fundamental, enduring, essential.”

Art Matter Design

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Saul Bellow

Novelist

“The only truly intersting side of the matter was the intimate design of the injury, the fact that it was so penetrating, custom-made exactly to your measure. It's fascinating that hatred should be so personal as to be almost loving. The knife and the wound aching for each other.”

Design Hatred Knives

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Rebecca West

Novelist, Journalist

“I always have beauty around me, for I have but to go to my piano, and trace one of the million designs that have been made by my masters.”

Made Design Piano

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Thomas Carlyle

Essayist, Historian, Novelist

“I came hither [Craigenputtoch] solely with the design to simplify my way of life and to secure the independence through which I could be enabled to remain true to myself.”

Way Design Independence

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Scott Adams

Cartoonist

“Ideas are cheap. A dime a dozen, as they say. It's the implementation that's important! The trick isn't just to have a computer game idea, but to actually create it!”

Ideas Games Design

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Reggie Watts

Comedian, Musician

“I like sincerely talking about market analysis and how marketing is ahead of design and design needs to catch up to fulfill the promise of the marketing.”

Talking Design Promise

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Scott Adams

Cartoonist

“Ideas are worthless. Execution is everything.”

Ideas Design Execution

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