Famous Quotes & Sayings

M. Wolfe

We've always taken pride in having a convenient, interactive Web site, and the new design follows through on those initiatives.

Jason Peters

When I was little I'd design these dresses and show them to my family. There'd always be three or four or five (designs) on the fridge.

Joseph Altuzarra

We're making clothes - we aren't saving the world. I'm not saying that designers aren't artists, but at the end of the day, we make clothes. Hopefully we make beautiful clothes with a message, but in the end it's for people to wear. I think that the hype of fashion has come down a level.

Nikolay Sevastiyanov

We're starting to design this new transportation system to support the International Space Station (ISS) once it's complete.

Lorenzo Carmon

We're going to the end of the lines and working in. There's still design to be done, but if folks aren't interested, we'll scale the project back.

Kent Beck

Received wisdom is that if you spend time up front getting the design right, you avoid costs later. But the longer you spend getting the design right, the more your upfront costs are, and the longer it takes for the software to start earning.

Kent Beck

The problem is, in software design, often the consequences of your decisions don't become apparent for years.

Kent Beck

A rational model of software is to design it quickly - the economic pressure to improvise presents an interesting challenge.

Kent Beck

Design should be easy in the sense that every step should be obviously and clearly identifiable. Simplify elements to make change simple so you can manage the technical risk.

Sandy Puccio

We're keeping it to just one day because the quilts are so old and valuable. Some of the designs are really unusual.

Edward Tufte

The point is that analytical designs are not to be decided on their convenience to the user or necessarily their readability or what psychologists or decorators think about them; rather, design architectures should be decided on how the architecture assists analytical thinking about evidence.

Martin Filler

Postmodernism came nowhere close in quality to Modernism at its apogee, not least because that later style wholly lacked the social impetus that animated the designs most emblematic of the Modern Movement.

Manmohan Singh

We shall defeat their (the terrorists) nefarious designs and not allow them to succeed,

Thomas Heatherwick

I am finally getting the chance to build large structures and break preconceptions that my designs are just sculptures for people to be in. But my work always comes down to the human scale.

Karl Williams

There are other designers making money from these designs and that's where the proper authorities would come in. If there were restrictions on that, it would be both good and bad. There is the side where these people are going to make all this money from our flag and our country doesn't benefit.

Brent Roose

He talked about all his different molds and designs so passionately. I decided I wanted to try it.

Tom Jones

He is definitely tapping into a younger age base. Some of his peers have been building for 30 years and they tend to attract an older client base. He's part of a new breed of bicycle frame builders that is interpreting the growing custom bicycle market with fresh designs such as the single speed and bike messenger styles.

Randy Benoit

If they do pick designs off the wall, what I try to encourage people to do is let us revise it and change it, that way you won't have five people down the line with the same tattoo.

Kathi Moore

We've asked them to give us the details on the spill, what happened, how it happened, what caused it, what they've done to contain and control it.

Mike Goodman

What we're seeing right now is most likely stage one, with other details to come in the near future.

Fredrik Modin

When we are on and when we're playing well, everybody feels that confidence. But at times we have had problems staying with it. But we do have stretches when we pay attention to the details and play well and we have that confidence.

Walt Harris

When we finally get to the game, I'll be looking forward to it. But right now, there are so many details that we need to take care of just to get on the plane and be able to have a good Friday study session that it's kind of overwhelming right now. I really haven't had the time to think that this is my first game at Stanford.

John Arnold

We are getting dozens of calls a day asking for details about the Medicare prescription-drug coverage.

Penny Junor

What makes life most difficult is the media intrusion, ... I think the public has gotten more and more greedy for the intimate details of their lives. These people are exposed to scrutiny 24 hours a day. We feel we have a right to know. We feel it's in the public interest. Even pop stars get more privacy. We just want to know every last detail. They are living in a goldfish bowl. And it never goes away.

Dan Senor

We're going to do a real investigation here, spend some substantial, significant time with him getting to the bottom of what happened and how he escaped. And then we'll release details as we have them. Right now, let's just make sure he's in good physical shape, which he appears to be, and give him an opportunity to reconnect with his loved ones.

Steve Chabot

We're getting a lay of the land. We're finding out where the microphones are, how they'll operate, which tables we're going be sitting at, how to present the exhibits -- the basic details that one wants to be familiar with when you're presenting a trial.

Chuck Hunter

We're aware of some individuals who are disappointed with actions that have been taken and have heard rumors of a formal meeting. However, we're not aware of any specific details of a protest.

Geoffrey Robertson

We've avenged all we can of Hitler's wickedness ... we must now look at the equal or greater wickedness that we've seen in the genocide in Cambodia, in the military killers of Latin America, in the blackness of the hideousness of African dictators like Idi Amin , ... The Justice Game.

Paul Stamm

We've approached the other trusts and have gotten a verbal commitment, but they would like to be able to be the monies that put us over the top in the project. This has a great chance of being a reality and we really need $10 and $25 donations from people in the community.

Joe Hudak

We've always wanted to try to figure out ways to improve our attendance. There's no doubt it's a great advantage if you can have a lot of people in the stands cheering for you and cheering against your opponents.

Jonathan Mayers

We've always tried to reflect people's diverse music collections. We don't want to dismiss our core in any way, but . . . as great as Widespread Panic has been to us and has been a really big part of what we've done, we can't have Widespread Panic every single year.

Wayne Chrebet

We've always taken great pride in going to other people's stadiums and sticking it to them. We have a great opportunity this week to not only show ourselves, but show everybody with a national game, that were certainly better than a 2-4 team.

Joe Balogh

We've always said that you can't win the league in the first round of the season but you can lose it. I think that is the great part of playing in the NCC.

Jon Gruden

We've always said Chris is going to get better with opportunities to get better. He's got a pizzazz about him on game day that I'm real comfortable with. He's charismatic and clutch. He's shown great resolve and toughness.

Evan Lysacek

We've always had great depth in our men. Certainly we have it this year. And what I think is so wonderful about the top four is that each one has a completely different style.

Mike Browning

We've always had expectations that we were going to be a great football team. And I think we're on our way.

Lisa Graves

We applaud those lawmakers, from both sides of the aisle, who have demanded the truth from the government. The rule of law has been broken, and Congress and the public have a right to know. Effective and public oversight can be done without compromising state secrets. The administration must stop using national security as a blanket reason to keep their illegal activities hidden in the shadows.

John Nolan

We started mixing it together in the summer time, and it became a really nice blend. The kids get along and there's not a lot of jealousy, and if there is it's hidden very well, because I don't see it.

James Patrick

Wounds that fail to heal are a hidden epidemic as our population ages and people become vulnerable to diabetes, vascular disease and many of the other conditions that lead to chronic wounds.

George Hughes

We are here to do what's best for all the children in the district. When our board had to appoint someone, we looked for someone who puts the system and the kids first with no hidden agendas.

David Dill

With the paper-based system you can see the ballots being marked, you can see them going into a ballot box, if you have good laws you can go watch them count the ballots, and with electronic voting all of that stuff is hidden inside the machines.

Khalil Gibran

We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble.

Richard Thompson

Popular is a tricky word. People in large numbers don't always have the best taste. I prefer to concentrate on songs that are deserving, but slightly too arcane to be in every household - the also-rans, the misfits, the hidden jewels.

Jim Bates

One of the hidden benefits is you get good word of mouth back on campus, ... That's invaluable because you can't get that with a brochure. I've had a number of people say, 'I'd never heard of CUNA, but my friend had an internship there, and I want to know more.'

Suzanne Fields

That's what Major League Baseball's steroid scandal was all about, the hidden harm in competitive sports that sends the wrong message to the young.

Bertrand Russell

Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously.

Louie Schwartzberg

With high-speed cameras, we can do the opposite of time lapse. We can shoot images that are thousands of times faster than our vision. And we can see how nature's ingenious devices work, and perhaps we can even imitate them.

David Chalmers

I think it's a stupendous piece. I'm frankly a little surprised that it's not done more often because the music is so wonderful. The writing, especially for wind instruments, is extraordinary. He was just very expressive of the text and very inventive. So there's a wonderful sort of genius use of different styles and an ingenious use of the orchestra. I'm excited that we're doing it because I think people need to hear this piece.

Michael Hevezi

I thought it was an ingenious idea. The reasons were fitting.

Anthony Fauci

It is an ingenious mechanism that the virus uses by having this big burst of expansion and the cells respond,

Robert Moses

Frank Lloyd Wright's inverted oatmeal dish and silo with their awkward cantilevering, their jaundiced skin and the ingenious spiral ramp leading down past the abstractions which mirror the tortured maladjustments of our time.

Ralph Mendoza

New package types must be developed that combine effective unit-dose packaging, child resistance, and senior friendliness into one ingenious design. The new solutions must be tested and qualified and applicable to various configurations and large-scale industrial packaging.

Robert Moog

Leon Theremin's original designs are elegant, ingenious and effective. As electronics goes, the theremin is very simple. But there are so many subtleties hidden in the details of the design. It's like a great sonnet, or a painting, or a speech, that is perfectly done on more than one level.

Walter Kirn

The success that Americans are said to worship is success of a specific sort: accomplished not through hard work, primarily, but through the ingenious angle, the big break. Sit down at a lunch counter, stand back up a star. Invest in a new issue and watch it soar. Split a single atom, win a war.

Terry Lickona

We've always known there was a reason to keep all these original masters. We've never erased a single tape from any show we've ever done. We've just about run out of space to store these tapes, but they've turned out be gems. We're proud of these old shows and we think they deserve to be seen by new generations of fans and people that have been fans all along.

Aleksey Igudesman

We've always dreamt of a TV series and working in film. When we first sat down to seriously write 'A Little Nightmare Music,' to write something for TV was our original inspiration. But all the stuff we were writing down is not going to work on stage. We had to rewrite it so it would work on the stage.

Fran Townsend

When we were preparing the president's speech we had originally picked a different plot to try and declassify to talk about.

Sharon Hess

When we went to talk to those families, we found out that one of the families was originally from Herrin, so we were able to quickly place them in one of our vacant homes in Herrin. Our agency covers 24 counties, and if we don't have a house available, we can still help a family by making referrals.

Richard Blankenship

We're getting the facility back to its original state.

Michael Chetcuti

We're going to restore the original part of the building, not so that it is historically correct, but for other uses.

Peter Adderton

When we began this company, partnering with MTV Networks was our No. 1 goal, not only because of their unrivaled understanding of today's young adults, but also because we share the same goal of delivering the most original and compelling content across the rapidly evolving wireless space.

Michael Price

We got very creative -- how do you make sure we provide enough parking and maintain the original plan?

John Meyers

Web services fits into the original vision of the ASP model in that there are these functions out on the Internet and you can just go out there and rent them.

Colin Trevorrow

We're so surrounded by so much of this marketing and just being told on a regular basis that you have to like this, you will go here, you want this. I found that to me that fit perfectly into what a theme park of dinosaur would be about.

Lewis Maltby

What we're seeing is employers who are trying to find out people who might be sick in the future, who might run up the company's medical bills, and (efforts) to screen them out, even though the company knows they can do the job perfectly well.

Mary Berry

What historians will look at is her contributions in these other things. Historians will understand and explore the full dimensions and not just the perfectly made up, dignified widow.

Flynt Leverett

We can define a target set that we want to take out in the name of delaying Iran's nuclear development, and we're perfectly capable of taking out that target set.

Lori Leveen

We bought a small house in Boston and we got it set up and had everything perfectly arranged until we realized we really only had one seat in the house that had sufficient light for reading and every night there was a battle of who could race to this chair faster with a reading book and I was always losing being the smallest. So we really started a quest to look for an ultimate reading light.

Paul DePodesta

Unless everything is lined up, we'd be perfectly happy not doing it.

John Reid

We're in the south to help and protect the Afghan people to reconstruct their economy and democracy. We would be perfectly happy to leave in three year's time without firing one shot.

Michael Specter

I moved from Moscow to Rome with my family and two bicycles in 1998, and spent a lot of that year- and the next - obsessed, I am sorry to admit, with the bicycles. Italy, after all, was a place where thousands of middle-aged men felt perfectly comfortable spending many hours a week in brightly colored spandex.

Guy Ritchie

We split all the bills 50-50. So what? That's perfectly normal, isn't it?

Louise Gluck

What I responded to, on the page, was the way a poem could liberate, by means of a word's setting, through subtleties of timing, of pacing, that word's full and surprising range of meaning. It seemed to me that simple language best suited this enterprise.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Even though I spent the first five years of my life in Nagasaki, going to Japan can be really difficult. Even if they know I've been brought up in the West, they still expect me to understand all the subtleties of their culture, and if I get it wrong, it matters much more than if a British person gets it wrong. I find it intimidating.

Nick Licata

Whatever Peter wants, I am with him. He understands the complexities and subtleties of planning.

Bobby Jones

I believe with modern equipment and modern players, we cannot make a good course more difficult or more testing for the expert simply by adding length. The only way to stir them up is by the introduction of subtleties around the greens.

Jeff Lemire

I feel like if you really know the ending right from the beginning, you can add so many subtleties and little things later that will pay off and be more consistent and more rewarding for the reader.

Kate Chopin

I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe . . . ?

Leslie Caron

James Ivory is very, very subtle in his study of human behavior. I think that he's very aware of the subtleties of women behavior.

Malcolm McDowell

You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out and really bare it all, and hopefully you don't fall off the plank. And if you do, hey, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again.

Joe Anderson

When you read something in script form, there are some subtleties that stand out with far greater gravitas than sometimes what you see on screen.