The details are not the details. They make the design.
Some of the bravest and the best men of all the world, certainly in law enforcement, have made their contributions while they were undercover.
Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.
We think there's a huge opportunity in smaller vehicles. Smaller vehicles done in an American way.
It's a massive motor in a tiny, lightweight car.
Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.
Each individual piece is a calculated attempt to entice women to add to their wardrobe.
Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.
To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need.
Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.
The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?
Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.
The details are details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. It will in the end be these details that give the product its life.
Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.
You don't only worry about the people who hate or resent you; in a way, you're more worried about the people who love you.
Rich Palm Beach clients all wanted the same kind of different thing.
It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.
Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make.
It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do.
It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.
In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
Some of the kimonos took as long as four to five months to make, with all the layers that go into it.
We work because it's a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next.
You want to look fashionable and put-together, not like you hit every sale rack this season.
I had been to the South many times and I thought I knew what the South was, but not until you live with people and live through their lives do you know what it's really about.
I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals - like Lassie.
When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.
What we're doing is fun - if you have any sense of humor at all!
When I get into bed at night, I hope I don't get into it alone!
Women's Wear Daily can do more than any other publication to establish a designer.
There are millions of kids who, naturally, if we could only remember how it is - you know, you resent authority, you are impatient for change, you want to fix things up.
There is a wonder in reading Braille that the sighted will never know: to touch words and have them touch you back.
Sofia is so active, and she made The Virgin Suicides, which I thought was great - all these things are inspiring to me, not in terms of creating a particular dress, but just in terms of knowing that there is this type of woman out there.
No one should be allowed to play the violin until he has mastered it.
One of the great things about designing games is that you get to immerse yourself in a topic for a while and then move on to something new.
I was stuck in the elevator in my office building in Soho for about 45 minutes with a talent manager, and we just got to talking.
Knowing who the actors were as you were designing them helped, with Catherine's beauty and Renee's frailty, they directed me visually just by who they were.
Stephen can do anything! I was always intimidated by Stephen, because he was so quiet and he seemed very to-himself. But one thing plays off another.
I think people come to visit these towns not to see the design, but to see the people who live there, so this has a definite real-world aspect.
Might does not make right, it only makes history.
While researching design, I was inspired globally, from Peru to Turkey to Africa to Japan-from the 5th century through to today.
Even the simplest wicker basket can become priceless when it is loved and cared for through the generations of a family.
I've been lucky in the things I've got to work on. I've been able to keep it fresh, always getting to do different kinds of things.
Sometimes a contemporary film like Silence of the Lambs is difficult. To make it look real but interesting is always a challenge.
Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.
That's the best thing I like about the show is that from concept to execution, it works. People actually like it and it's helping people.
So by the end of this series, I'll probably have like 40 houses - and be broke - around the country, because you get so attached emotionally.
In Chicago, I walked in knowing what the dancers were going to need.
I'm lucky enough to have a really positive following, and I'm so grateful for that. It's a fantastic platform to launch a new show from.
If life were just, we would be born old and achieve youth about the time we'd saved enough to enjoy it.
If life begins at 40, what is it that ends at 39?
If you have never been amazed by the very fact that you exist, you are squandering the greatest fact of all.
I really like the original Apes costumes. The colors were great, and the use of heavy materials was something that influenced me for this film.
It has not been an easy name, yet it has brought me many a laugh.
I am very pleased that the way the Cobra turned out and how well it was received by everyone, especially enthusiasts and the media.
And Laurens, it definitely made me want to go on to the next region and the next region - because it's very much a cultural study.
The first Chicago was definitely a product of its time, and Chicago the musical is definitely a contemporary look at another time.
The designs were based on quite a lot of research of what a movie musical is, filtered through the eyes of today. If we'd gone strictly with the '20s, the movement would have been impaired.
The last occasions when the timetable of our lives would be interrupted for many years to come.