#sign

For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind. ↗

— James Rouse

#architectural #basic #belief #design #i

I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way. ↗

— Karl Rove

#back #before #campaigns #clients #consulting

Art has definitely influenced how I think of design, both as individual items and as a body of work. ↗

— Cynthia Rowley

#body #both #definitely #design #how

I have known that I wanted to be a designer since I was 8 years old. ↗

— Rachel Roy

#i #known #old #since #wanted

The responsibility of commanding the invasion fell to me, and the task was assigned to my Army Group. ↗

— Gerd von Rundstedt

#assigned #commanding #fell #group #invasion

A couple years ago, the novelist Russell Banks told me he was reading the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. I asked why. He said, 'Because I've always wanted to and am tired of having my reading assigned.' I thought it was a marvelous declaration of independence. ↗

— Richard Russo

#always #am #ancient #asked #assigned

No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement. ↗

— Florida Scott-Maxwell

#her #how #improvement #matter #middle-aged

My personality resembles my designs to a large extent. I'm in sync with myself and I'm transparent, just like my designs. ↗

— Elie Saab

#extent #i #just #large #large extent

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#build #collect #drum #endless #immensity

On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself. ↗

— Pierre Salinger

#encouraged #had #himself #kennedy #lover