All Quotes

The 'Desert' sweeps up to the walls of Baghdad, but it is a misnomer to call the vast level of rich, stoneless, alluvial soil a desert. It is a dead flat of uninhabited earth; orange colocynth balls, a little wormwood, and some alkaline plants which camels eat, being its chief products. After the inundations, reedy grass grows in the hollows.
‐‐ Isabella Bird

The desertion of Jesus, by his followers, furnishes an argument in support of the supposition that he attempted to be king of the Jews, rather than that he was a superior being.
‐‐ Lysander Spooner

The design of a city is like a strange archeology.
‐‐ Jaime Lerner

The design of a dress, furniture, a house, a room, a street and a city are all the same process.
‐‐ Gianfranco Ferre

The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair.
‐‐ Leo Fender

The design of 'Love Actually,' the typeface, the basic line of that poster and that DVD cover has been ripped off so many times.
‐‐ Martin Freeman

The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.
‐‐ Mary Astell

The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.
‐‐ Steve Jobs

The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England.
‐‐ Peter Stuyvesant

The design process usually starts as a fantasy, with ideas that I dream of and visualize. These ideas become a reality by bringing various ingredients together, from the lifestyle of my bride, her age and sex appeal, to the textures of the finest fabrics and embroideries that we produce in my family factories in India.
‐‐ Naeem Khan

The designated driver program, it's not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing it, drop them off at the wrong house.
‐‐ Jeff Foxworthy

The designer must understand that form does not follow function nor does form follow a production process. For every use and for every production process there are innumerable equally attractive solutions.
‐‐ Eva Zeisel

The designer of my Emmy gown is donating my gown to the charity for an auction.
‐‐ Maria Menounos

The designers, photographers and models I work with, they are really hard-working people who are devoting their lives to fashion. They're kind of like nuns of fashion.
‐‐ Alber Elbaz

The designers usually don't like to say until we're on the runway. Like when I did Prada last year, I couldn't mention doing Prada or even Tweet or take a picture and put it on Twitter saying I was backstage at the Prada show. And Dolce was the same thing. They like to keep a little surprise, I guess, a little secret for everybody.
‐‐ Alessandra Ambrosio

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.
‐‐ Colleen Atwood

The desire definitely comes from within. There are only a few people who make it to this level and those are the ones who have that innate desire.
‐‐ Ashton Eaton

The desire for freedom and equilibrium (harmony) is inherent in man (due to the universal in him).
‐‐ Piet Mondrian

The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.
‐‐ Emily Greene Balch

The desire for money may be an indication of greed, but I want to argue that greed is a much more subtle vice than simply the desire to be rich.
‐‐ Stanley Hauerwas

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
‐‐ Albert Camus

The desire for reinvention seems to arise most often when companies hear the siren call of synergy and start to expand beyond their core businesses.
‐‐ James Surowiecki

The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
‐‐ Tacitus

The desire for security must be balanced with our regard for liberty.
‐‐ Samuel Schmid

The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.
‐‐ Fay Weldon

The desire for self-improvement is vital. There is no point in pushing children; they need to be the ones who want to learn new skills.
‐‐ Tony Buzan

The desire from those abroad to join our ranks is overwhelming. Tens of millions have applied for the limited amount of diversity visas available every year, illustrating the demand and need to maintain this vital path to American citizenship.
‐‐ Cedric Richmond

The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
‐‐ Saint Augustine

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
‐‐ Francis Bacon

The desire of God's heart is immeasurably larger than our imaginations can conjure.
‐‐ Greg Boyle

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
‐‐ Laurence Sterne

The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
‐‐ Madame de Stael

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.
‐‐ Friedrich Nietzsche

The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity.
‐‐ Richard Stallman

The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to be paid for it.
‐‐ John Pomfret

The desire to collect information on customers is not new for Target or any other large retailer, of course. For decades, Target has collected vast amounts of data on every person who regularly walks into one of its stores.
‐‐ Charles Duhigg

The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.
‐‐ Emile M. Cioran

The desire to do different things was the main motivator that made me leave late night because I'd been there seven years. The combination of an entrepreneurial desire to see how far I could push my success and a short attention span. But now I've done other things. And I'm sort of ready to sit somewhere and sit in the same place for a while.
‐‐ Andy Richter

The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.
‐‐ Howard Aiken

The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.
‐‐ Nora Ephron

The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.
‐‐ Billy Corgan

The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.
‐‐ Richard Powers

The desire to move into a bigger house, to avoid living AIDS daily, and a dream to be accepted by a community and school, became possible and a reality with a movie about my life, The Ryan White Story.
‐‐ Ryan White

The desire to play has always been in me. I remember my first experience at about four or five of really dying to sing and dying to play that came from no one telling me to do so.
‐‐ Alicia Keys

The desire to really compete again has been there for a long time.
‐‐ Katarina Witt

The desire to see Okinawa returned to Japan developed into a broad national consensus among our people.
‐‐ Eisaku Sato

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The desire to share is not a vague, windy sentiment, not when you see the massive rise in live concerts in response to the phenomenon of downloading music... People want to get rid of the headphones and be part of a shared experience.
‐‐ Richard Eyre