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Quotes by Designer

"Mick Jagger, his face was very new. It became a sex symbol."

"Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs."


"Never fit a dress to the body but train the body to fit the dress."

"I love to take things that are everyday and comforting and make them into the most luxurious things in the world."

"Now that digital lifestyle devices, tablets, wireless phones, and other Internet appliances are beginning to come of age, we need to worry about presenting our content to these devices so that it is optimized for their display capabilities."

"We found a way to make things look great to the human eye through the window of a graphical web browser without worrying about what everything looked like under the hood."
Eye,

"Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie."

"I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality."

"We reduced the size of our front page code by about 50%, and by using absolute positioning, we are able to display important parts of the page before other parts may have fully loaded yet."
May,

"Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor."

"I'd love to talk to Angelina Jolie. On my show I would love her because she's a mysterious, mysterious figure."

"The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed."
Time,

"People read things into my commercials that don't even exist."


"I think dress, hairstyle and make-up are the crucial factors in projecting an attractive persona and give one the chance to enhance one's best physical features."

"In Paris, it used to feel like you were living in a museum. As beautiful as it was, it's still limited. But here you have just everything."


"Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale."

"Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations."

"Sometimes I miss hamburgers, I should say that. I miss the tuna pizzas at Mercer Kitchen."

"When people ask, Do you like children? I always say, I like some children, yes. Some children I don't like."

"Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future."

"Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make."

"Sometimes big designers are afraid that people won't recognize them if they change that much."

"The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore."

"Just don't go to a place where everything is too expensive... it'll put your husband in a bad mood."


"My definition of an adventure game is an interactive story set with puzzles and obstacles to solve and worlds to explore."

"British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage."
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