“ The official designs of the Government, especially its designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors of national taste. ”
- W. B. Yeats- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease. ”
- Nicolas Boileau- Copy
- 752
“ To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well. ”
- Isaac Asimov- Copy
- 56
“ I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body. ”
- Gianni Versace- Copy
- 3.7K
“ War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans. ”
- Niccolo Machiavelli- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context — a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan. ”
- Eliel Saarinen- Copy
- 3.9K
“ If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist. ”
- Voltaire- Copy
- 1.4K
“ To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. - Thomas Edison. ”
- Thomas Edison- Copy
- 443
“ I wanted to be a decorator. I wanted to interior design homes and do everything myself. ”
- Ursula Andress- Copy
- 4K
“ My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians. ”
- Robert Moog- Copy
- 1.9K
“ A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast. ”
- Dennis Potter- Copy
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“ If you would create something, you must be something. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent. It is right it should be so; Man was made for Joy and Woe; And when this we rightly know, Thro' the world we safely go, Joy and woe are woven fine, A clothing for the soul divine. ”
- Sir William Blake- Copy
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“ There was never anything by the wit of man so well devised, or so sure established, which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted. ”
- Book of Common Prayer- Copy
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“ Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past. ”
- H.F. Hedge- Copy
- 3.2K
“ The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree, such a hare is madness the youth to skip o'er the meshes of good counsel the cripple. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 110
“ Ceremony was but devised at first to set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, recanting goodness, sorry ere 'Tis shown; but where there is true friendship, there needs none. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past. ”
- Francis Herbert Hedge- Copy
- 2.8K
“ It was prettily devised of Aesop, "The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise! ". ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
- 1K
“ Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Practice, which some regard as a chore, should be approached as just about the most pleasant recreation ever devised. ”
- Babe Didrikson Zaharias- Copy
- 797
“ The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation. ”
- Marquis de Sade- Copy
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