Imagination is what designs your life.

Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs.

— Richard Dawkins

Prayer is a specific divine appointment, an ordinance of Heaven, whereby God purposes to carry out His gracious designs on earth and to execute…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

While fractal geometry is often used in high-tech science, its patterns are surprisingly common in traditional African designs.

— Ron Eglash

My designs and labors and aspirations are my only friends.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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…

— Robert Moog

I founded Minted in 2007 with the desire to use 'crowd-sourcing' to bring designs from the best emerging and independent designers in the world…

— Mariam Naficy

Programmers and marketing people know how to get into your subconscious - they spend millions of dollars researching colors, shapes, designs, symbols, that affect…

— Richard Hatch

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…

— Colleen Atwood

A designer can mull over complicated designs for months. Then suddenly the simple, elegant, beautiful solution occurs to him. When it happens to you,…

— Leo Frankowski

Everything we do is designed, whether we're producing a magazine, a website, or a bridge. Design is really the creative invention that designs everything.

— Henry Petroski

Postmodernism came nowhere close in quality to Modernism at its apogee, not least because that later style wholly lacked the social impetus that animated…

— Martin Filler

The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they're not tacky; they are very professional;…

— Vivienne Westwood

Light rails are too bus-like to impress most commuters, too squished and close to the ground. Monorails, by contrast, strike a chord with travelers.…

— Brendan I. Koerner

My designs are meant to attract the hand as well as the eye.

— Eva Zeisel

The designs are more about the whole thing rather than the details, and if I were to do the big shapes I do, color…

— Gareth Pugh