#designed

Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book. ↗

— Michael Lewis

#almost #any #author #beat #book

The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational. ↗

— Roger Mudd

#becomes #between #confrontational #constitution #designed

The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#basically #behalf #consumers #corporate #designed

One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#already #am #art #because #boring

Now with the Internet, a celebrity is fair game, and it's all designed to sell advertising space. ↗

— Randy Quaid

#celebrity #designed #fair #fair game #game

I felt I'd earned the Good Housekeeping Seal when I designed an oval-shaped spaghetti pot, because spaghetti is long. ↗

— Rachael Ray

#designed #earned #felt #good #good housekeeping

Modern instruments were designed to throw sound all in one direction. ↗

— Marc Ribot

#direction #instruments #modern #sound #throw

Other people might want a Ferrari, but I wanted a butterfly house. I built it together with a blacksmith. We designed it together. ↗

— Andre Rieu

#butterfly #designed #ferrari #house #i

There are already a lot of devices in our lives that have rich text or the ability to handle graphics. Our devices are designed to be understood in less than a quarter of a second. ↗

— David Rose

#already #designed #devices #graphics #handle

I came to these mediums through having the garden, and of course, people who have designed gardens have always worked in collaboration, and never made their own inscriptions. ↗

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

#came #collaboration #course #designed #garden