Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Crane

Let the designer lean upon the staff of the line - line determinative, line emphatic, line delicate, line expressive, line controlling and uniting.

Oleg Cassini

A designer is like a doctor for a woman. He has a specific job, and if he is doing it well, he will have the gratitude of the woman for the rest of his life.

Elaine Sciolino

The Italian Renaissance extends beyond food, of course. Just about every major Italian furniture designer now has a shop in Paris, and Le Bon Marche recently opened an outlet for Santa Maria Novella perfumes, elixirs and soaps from Florence on its ground floor.

Kate Micucci

I secretly wanted to act. I also wanted be a toy designer and make puppets.

Dave Morris

When I mention that I'm a game designer as well as a writer, someone will nod and say, 'Ah, that's what we like about your script. The videogame feel.'

D. James

The production designer is responsible for everything you see on the screen, except the actor.

Christian Lacroix

Much later, designers like Dior and Saint Laurent recreated styles form the '30s and '40s.

Richard Martin

She was incredibly important. She was one of that first group in the 1930s of designers recognized by name.

Nigel Barker

Designers simply can't afford to make dresses in 10 sizes for a sample.

David Hume

Virtue, like wholesome food, is better than poisons, however corrected.

Athenaeus

'It is very small for its age,' said Gnathaena.

Alain Ducasse

Desserts are like mistresses. They are bad for you. So if you are having one, you might as well have two.

Alain de Botton

Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.

Judy McNamara

Lunt was trained as a chef. He liked to use fresh food in his cooking.

Daniel Boulud

Le Cirque at first was one of those general French restaurants in town, which were cooking more or less the same food. At Le Cirque, I wanted to do something different while respecting the foundation of the restaurant. I did that through the menu.

Larry Fitzgerald

I've traveled all the way around the world; I've been to over 95 countries, so I love ethnic food, different types of cuisine.

Genesis Rodriguez

I'd rather just be the girl who likes to eat a lot of food.

Erin McKean

The use of food metaphors is really well established English... Somebody is a peach, a hot tamale.

Arne Jacobsen

Furniture manufacturing in plastics requires very costly machinery, which the Danish market is not big enough to justify. Or so they say. But show me a plastics manufacturer who dares to take on the experiment

Spencer Tracy

Learn your lines and don't trip over the furniture

Tom Collins

No one should let their guard down. Rivers are at dangerously high levels. It's not the time to go out and put the lawn furniture back up.

Edith Wharton

To your generation, I must represent the literary equivalent of tufted furniture and gas chandeliers.

Jeremy Gorman

Pottery Barn's had a big influence on the furniture industry. We have a lot of similar items that you can take home now and in a lot of cases, better quality.

Howard Davidowitz

Furniture doesn't typically spell romance. A sporting goods store is another off-beat destination. I mean, what would you get? A paddle, a tennis racquet?

Scott Ellis

If the furniture doesn't come, I'll scrounge up some old stuff myself.

Billy Casper

Like a lot of fellows around here, I have a furniture problem. My chest has fallen into my drawers.

Zachary Smith

We've even got a list of about 15 people who've helped us out, giving us $20 or offering to give us furniture when we get settled down. We just thought that if we got their information, we could give something back to them once we get straightened out here in Katy.

Robert Kazinsky

I'm married to my job. I'm obsessed with my work, and I run myself into the ground every single day. Unfortunately, a lot of other pursuits have to take a back seat.

Ezra Klein

I think it's weird that the news cedes so much ground to Wikipedia. That isn't true in other informational sectors.

Winston Dookeran

There is a lot expenditure in the sky but there is no development on the ground. And it is the development on the ground that will influence our lives.

John Alden

We used to see a very large growth in our ground business,

Al Hanna

Scott was very well-qualified for this position. We feel like he will just hit the ground running.

Owen Miller

Ole Miss has a lot of potential. They've won there before. Is it going to be easy? No. There's no magic formula. You're just going to have to work every day. You've got to recruit. In the end, that's what it comes down to. We've got to hit the ground running.

Dave Fields

She grounded me very effectively for 30 years.

Kyra Sedgwick

Yes, I have something else that I produced and he directed. We have something else that we're trying to get off the ground that we have a script for.

Brian Dawkins

We know we have to hit the ground running. We're starting off with St. Louis, and you can't get harder than that.

Diablo Cody

My boyfriend is Italian and from New Jersey, so naturally he was thrilled to meet Joe Pesci.

Diego Della Valle

Businessmen should not put their finger in politics, because they tend to think only of their own self-interest. But I worry about the low morale in Italian industry and the lack of government initiatives to help the poor.

Diego Della Valle

When I am walking in Central Park, I recognize the Italians. Because an Italian, even when he jogs, he's dressed perfect.

Isabella Rossellini

There is this idea that you have to play heroines or women who succeed.

Benito Mussolini

The Italian proletariat needs a blood bath for it force to be renewed.

Benito Mussolini

Liberty is no longer the virgin, chaste and severe, to be fought for ... we have buried the putrid corpse of liberty ... the Italian people are a race of sheep.

Benito Mussolini

Fortunately the Italian people has not yet accustomed itself to eat many times a day, and possessing a modest level of living, it feels deficiency and suffering less.

Benito Mussolini

Fortunately the Italian people is not habituated to eating several times a day.

Benito Mussolini

Yet if anyone cares to read over the now crumbling minutes giving an account of the meetings at which the Italian Fasci di Combattimento were founded, he will find not a doctrine but a series of pointers... It may be objected that this program implies a return to the guilds (corporazioni). No matter!... I therefore hope this assembly will accept the economic claims advanced by national syndicalism.

Alain de Botton

True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.

Jeremy Corbyn

Like a majority of the population and a majority of even Tory voters, I want the railways back in public ownership.

Mo Ibrahim

Make as much money as you can, but can you please pay your taxes, because this is a major problem.

Ayad Allawi

major negligence on the part of some members of the multinational forces.

D. James

Major market indexes are going to remain in a range, ... I don't see a big trigger on the upside.

Jaren Jackson

Major is not a big scorer but he can play defense.

Tariq Anwar

Bio-Technology is expected to play a major role in improving productivity.

Eliot Spitzer

While 2013 will not see a major national election, we can be sure that most Republicans will obstruct and some Democrats will appease.

Erin Morgenstern

I don't have any particular rituals, I sometimes like to write in longhand when I'm searching for ideas but I do the vast majority by typing, I can't always keep up with my thoughts longhand. I'm not a coffee shop writer because I feel obliged to order more coffee and then I end up over-caffeinated.

Olivia Cooke

My first big role was when I was 17 and I got the part playing Maria in 'West Side Story' in my school production.

Imelda May

I started singing in church with my sister Maria when I was four, and I've been pretty much singing ever since. There's never been anything else for me to do.

Venus Williams

But just to have Maria and myself here was a really special thing.

John Guare

And we remember it as it was when we first saw Maria Tallchief or Suzanne Farrell in it. And now it's Wendy Whelan, it's tomorrow's dancer.

Carrie Graf

Talking about Maria at this point is irrelevant.

Butch Klein

When I got there, he opened the back of his vehicle and it was just packed,

Tom Coulson

When we first opened we had only six school buses. Now we have 24.

Amr Moussa

There are no more relations to be opened until they go back to the right path of peace.

Ben Okri

We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was standing on nothing. It was the strangest thing. Her passing away ripped the solidity out of the world.

Djimon Hounsou

Africa is my continent. It is where I opened my eyes.

Damien Rice

I opened up every can of worms I could. I got to the place where I would peel back one layer, and then another layer, and the stuff that would come up underneath was so inspiring, it made me want to write about it.

I. Stone

We opened May 2, and by the third week in June, we were selling out, ... Wicked.

Peggy Laskowski

We opened it up to the community, and it went pretty well. It was a lot of fun.

E. Hicks

We opened in probably the worst way you can open a school.

Frank Shields

There is no distribution outlet for young bloods to exhibit,

Deborah Cox

Relationship enhancement is the most productive outlet possible for anger.

Cindy Genzano

I was one of those kids, who...well let's just say that theater really saved my life. It has always been an outlet for me. I really wanted to be an actor.

Susan Beal

When the Boardwalk was first under planning, they didn't talk about it as an outlet mall. That kind of evolved.

Matt Bomer

When I was in high school, there was no safe haven, there was no outlet for you to speak your mind.

Anthony Clement

With a young quarterback, you have to have the back as an outlet (receiver), ... He can't stay in and block.

Yadira Gomez

We had to get more outlets installed outside the house. We installed enough for all the lights.

Laura Marling

If I don't have an outlet in which to express myself...throug h songwriting or other mediums...I get a bit jittery.

Mignon McLaughlin

Goods are displayed by thousands of shopkeepers with a sense of beauty that finds no other outlet.

Janis Ian

A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.

Marcelo Porto

Stocks that were most favored recently are being penalized now.

Evanna Lynch

My cats - I have Luna who's just had kittens recently and we called one of them Dumbledore. They're nice but they're not like their characters.

Daniel Handler

Or why you are wearing a picture of Santa Clause on you shirts, but-” “It’s Herman Melville.

Enrique Garcia

We're like their Santa Claus. It's kind of special and we make them feel normal.

Al Smith

No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.

Christian Bale

I put on weight like Santa Claus. I just get this belly that kind of extends out.

Samuel Butler

Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.

Ludwig von Mises

The Santa Claus principle liquidates itself.

Michelle Malkin

I stand with the Santa Barbara News-Press. How about you?

Maureen Johnson

I feel warm and reassured," I whispered. "He's like Santa.

Jim Butcher

I felt like I had just double-tapped Santa.

Howard Struletz

When you put all that together, it's a pretty wide shopping experience.

Miley Cyrus

I love everything [Jessica Simpson] ever has on! Jessica can definitely come pick me up in her little Mercedes and take me shopping if she wants!

Cat Deeley

I don't shop because I need something, I just shop for shopping's sake.

Agnes Repplier

Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.

Arabella Weir

When not eating, I like shopping; although I'm afraid I've become a bit of a cliche.

Cathy Guisewite

The specific story line that people have responded to the most has been the horror of bathing suit shopping.

Diane Ackerman

We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling forests to graze cattle or erect shopping malls and condos; planting groves of a few familiar trees that homeowners and industries prefer.

Delta Burke

And then, I do love my shopping, but actually, lounging is the big thing.

Charles Baudelaire

All the visible universe is nothing but a shop of images and signs.